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Post by cjd on Mar 13, 2015 1:38:08 GMT
Your stamps are all Bill of Exchange stamps. The bottom two are German Empire, and listed in Forbin. The top group are Weimar Republic. I'd guess they are safe for soaking, but I wouldn't risk it, either.
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Post by PostmasterGS on Mar 13, 2015 18:39:26 GMT
rod222, The top bill of exchange stamps appear to be Erler 197. The second and third could be from either of these sets. Check the watermark. Based on the slight color difference, you may have one from each set.
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Post by rod222 on Mar 13, 2015 19:30:10 GMT
rod222, The top bill of exchange stamps appear to be Erler 197. Fabulous stuff, again. Thanks PM That Erler Catalogue is to be commended. Bi lingual. Love it. Bills of exchange were probably invented by Florentine Jews. Definition.—By § 3 of the act a bill of exchange is defined to be “an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.”[1] The person who gives the order is called the drawer. The person thereby required to pay is called the drawee. If he assents to the order, he is then called the acceptor. An acceptance must be in writing and must be signed by the drawee. The mere signature of the drawee is sufficient (§17). The person to whom the money is payable is called the payee. The person to whom a bill is transferred by indorsement is called the indorsee. The generic term “holder” includes any person in possession of a bill who holds it either as payee, indorsee or bearer. A bill which in its origin is payable to order becomes payable to bearer if it is indorsed in blank. If the payee is a fictitious person the bill may be treated as payable to bearer (§7).
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Post by rod222 on Mar 20, 2015 5:35:56 GMT
Germany Unknown, any and all information welcomed. DDR 1959 Useful text strings Gruna (Sachs) Baumgarten-Gedenflug 4-4-1959 Zur 2 Karl-Marx-Stadt Sachsenschau
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Post by PostmasterGS on Mar 20, 2015 10:31:28 GMT
rod222, I don't have any specialized references that list this one, as most of my references don't cover DDR. However, here's what I do know. Georg Baumgarten was an early airship pioneer. He made his first flight in 1879, and along with Friedrich Hermann Wölfert, developed the airship shown on the stamp (26 meters long, three single-person gondolas, propellers driven by a hand crank). He was committed to a lunatic asylum in Colditz in 1883, and died there of tuberculosis in 1884. The stamp is from a memorial flight (Gedenkflug) in his honor conducted in April 1959 in conjunction with the 2nd Saxon Stamp Show (Sachsenschau). The route was from Chemnitz (renamed Karl Marx Stadt from 1953-1990), to Leipzig, Dresden, then back to Chemnitz.
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Post by rod222 on Mar 20, 2015 12:04:51 GMT
rod222 , I don't have any specialized references that list this one, as most of my references don't cover DDR. Many thanks Postmaster.
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Post by rod222 on Mar 20, 2015 21:31:01 GMT
East Germany Airship Vignette: One curious thing about this label, the three corners are rounded, suggesting a "die cut" ? 1959 would appear the earliest I recall in this type of separation. Any suggestions? The first Die Cut postage Stamps, I have for Sierra Leone 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_separation
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Post by rod222 on Mar 27, 2015 9:31:20 GMT
Heligoland 1878 Newspaper Wrappers. Mutilated Stationery.
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Post by rod222 on Jun 6, 2015 3:49:53 GMT
Hitler "Skull" design, propaganda sheets.
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Post by rod222 on Jun 6, 2015 3:53:05 GMT
Unknown Urban & Co Enclosure I have numbers 22 through 56
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Post by PostmasterGS on Jun 6, 2015 6:50:23 GMT
Hitler "Skull" design, propaganda sheets. Creative use of the word "forgeries", since those minisheets are forgeries of the original propaganda forgeries. Current street value of those minisheets is less than the cost of shipping, I'm afraid.
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Post by PostmasterGS on Jun 6, 2015 7:09:59 GMT
I'm not familiar with the Urban enclosures, rod222, but I find them odd -- they're in English, and Frankfurt is misspelled. A Germany company might use English if these were used on international mail, but they likely wouldn't misspell the name of one of their largest cities. The use of "No." for "number" is also more of an English abbreviation, as the Germans more commonly use "Nr.". Perhaps it's of English-speaking origin for a company doing business in Germany?
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Post by Ryan on Jun 6, 2015 10:16:48 GMT
I'm not familiar with the Urban enclosures, rod222, but I find them odd -- they're in English, and Frankfurt is misspelled. "Frankfort" is an older English-language exonym for the German city, still seen in a number of places in the U.S. which borrowed the name (most famous is probably the one that is the capital of Kentucky). Google Ngrams are endlessly fun to play with, so let's have a look at how the spelling has changed over the years ... Of course, this silliness does nothing to address the possibility that perhaps nobody was talking about Germany in the old days and that most of the uses of the spelling might have been referring to American or English towns, but oh well. Ryan
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Post by rod222 on Jun 6, 2015 10:35:37 GMT
Thanks gentlemen, for your perspectives. Interesting. Shall store away B.o.b.
PS: I looked at my alt codes, I could not find anything with a U with two strokes underneath.
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Post by rod222 on Jun 16, 2015 22:03:48 GMT
Internationale luftpostausstellung 1971 Would this be listed anywhere? or just a Airmail Expo Label? Thanks Any Info?
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 17, 2015 2:26:16 GMT
Internationale luftpostausstellung 1971 Would this be listed anywhere? or just a Airmail Expo Label? Thanks Any Info? Rigastamps identifies it as Michel 71/4.
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Post by rod222 on Jun 17, 2015 2:52:07 GMT
Rigastamps identifies it as Michel 71/4.
You are a Wiz Steve. Thanks very much.
If any Michel members can assist? I still cannot locate it in the Catalogue. I could not find the section for "blocks"
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Post by Ryan on Jun 17, 2015 6:14:45 GMT
If any Michel members can assist? I still cannot locate it in the Catalogue. I could not find the section for "blocks" I have my doubts that it is listed in Michel, at least not in the Germany Specialized catalogue - maybe they have some other catalogue that does list it, I don't know though. There is a listing of Blöcke (souvenir sheets) shortly after the end of the regular listings in Michel Specialized. My 2009 copy has a list of year set values immediately after the regular stamp listings, then listings of the two types of yearbooks (one with mint stamps, one with stamps with first day cancellations), then the "Blockaufstellung", which shows the Michel catalogue number where you can find each Block. Block 71 is from 2007 and celebrates the birthday of Wilhelm Busch. It won't be Block 7 either, that celebrates the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Nor is it found in Berlin listings. Ryan
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Post by rod222 on Jun 17, 2015 7:00:08 GMT
I have my doubts that it is listed in Michel, at least not in the Germany Specialized catalogue - maybe they have some other catalogue that does list it, I don't know though. Ryan Right. Thanks Ryan for your time. Looks like a job for Postmaster GS.
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Post by PostmasterGS on Jun 17, 2015 9:08:53 GMT
rod222, You won't find that S/S in Michel. It's a cinderella that was distributed at the 1971 Luftpostausstellung (Airmail Exhibition) in Berlin. The text on the S/S states that the stamp depicts an unissued definitive design from Württemberg (French Zone), circa 1949.
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Post by rod222 on Jun 17, 2015 14:38:49 GMT
rod222 , You won't find that S/S in Michel. It's a cinderella that was distributed at the 1971 Luftpostausstellung (Airmail Exhibition) in Berlin. The text on the S/S states that the stamp depicts an unissued definitive design from Württemberg (French Zone), circa 1949. Thanks Postmaster, Thanks Ryan for your time on my behalf. (Not like Riga Stamps to make a mistake) Yes, I would have bet Cinderella's Glass shoe, it wasn't in Michel (Surprise!) I only found two entries for "Luftpostausstellung" in Michel, none at 1971 So I have a $30 Cinderella From Ebay.....
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Post by rod222 on Jun 28, 2015 8:14:47 GMT
Unknown. Can any members assist with suggestion, as to what this may be? Seems printed in a folded Broadsheet, that formed a cover, sent from Cologne 16th July 1878 (Pmk COELN) to Leverkusen (3 pfennige stamp) PP ? Thank you.
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Post by PostmasterGS on Jun 28, 2015 11:38:35 GMT
rod222, This really calls for a native speaker, but here's my stab at it. The Kurrant script is very clean, with almost textbook letters (see here for an example). That makes it easy to read the German text, but my translation may be a little off. In German: In English:
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Post by rod222 on Jun 28, 2015 13:28:11 GMT
Thank you very much, Postmaster. Excellent, and makes sense, in a broad fashion. The Broadsheet was sent to "Leverkus & Sohne" in Leverkusen, if you note the similarity between names, it becomes apparent when one understands that Mr. Leverkus, was the inventor of artificial Ultramarine, the colour pigment, and his factory complex, became the town of Leverkusen. He no doubt had extensive land holdings and interests, which inspired the correspondence. Thanks again for your time, on my behalf.
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Post by rod222 on Jul 13, 2015 12:37:46 GMT
Circa 1895 Seal of Quality Stamp Treu & Nuglisch Berlin Fragrance manufacturers, purveyors to the Prussian and Austro-Hungarian Courts. Schutz Marke = Trademark
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Post by rod222 on Jul 14, 2015 1:42:03 GMT
1961 "The Letter, during 5 centuries" Philatelic Exhibition Nuremberg.
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Post by jimjung on Aug 17, 2015 23:56:35 GMT
Finsterwalde
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Post by rod222 on Aug 18, 2015 2:19:44 GMT
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Post by jimjung on Sept 5, 2015 16:39:25 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Sept 5, 2015 19:52:00 GMT
More finds from the Worldwide Junk Lot. I just liked the postmarks. Germany has always had good postmarks, Austria even better, but the best in the world, in my opinion, is SAAR, Well done you lot of Posties in SAAR.
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