MISCELLANEOUS POSTCARDS
(1927)

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LEIPZIGER MESSESTADT
LEIPZIG SPRING FAIR
(1927)

The following card was published by Verlag Karl Cramer of Leipzig to commemorate the Leipzig fair. This example was cancelled on 10th Mar 1927 in LEIPZIG and bears the commemorative cancellation used during the spring fair.

HANS SACHS NÜRNBERG
(1927)

This miscellaneous postcard pays tribute to German poet, playwright and shoemaker Hans Sachs (1494-1576) of NÜRNBERG. Sachs is also a leading character in Richard Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von NÜRNBERG".

Besides an image of Sachs himself, the card also depicts a panoramic view of NÜRNBERG Castle at the top, the Katharinenkirche and master singer's school at the bottom left and finally Hans Sach's house on the bottom right.





Both examples above are postally used, the one on the left being cancelled on the NÜRNBERG to HOF train on 24th Jun 1927 and the example on the right bearing a regular NÜRNBERG CDS cancel dated 27th Jun 1927. Both stamps also have 1926 issue 5Rpf self-adhesive Michel 387 Friedrich Schiller stamps.

NÜRNBERG CASTLE
(1927)

NÜRNBERG is featured again in the next postcard, this time it's the impressive Castle with its panoramic view of the surrounding city. The card has again been cancelled with a regular NÜRNBERG circular handstamp and tihs time the self-adhesive stamp from 1926 is a Michel 391 Immanuel Kant 15Rpf stamp

MARBURG & SÖHNE
(1927)

GEWEHRFABRIK H. BURGSMÜLLER & SÖHNE