OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1900)

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P50
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
5 PFENNIG - GERMANIA REICHSPOST

Top-middle of card with text "Deutsche Reichspost | Postkarte". "An" further left than "In". Longer 1st and 2nd dotted address lines. Without date control marks but with watermark (watermark 2 digits and letters). Note that sometimes the watermark is very weak. There are two variations:

P50-I: with gap in the 1st and 2nd dotted address lines
P50 II: without a gap in the 1st and 2nd address lines.

P50-I

This unused example of a P50-I postcard has been used creatively by an aspiring artist as a canvass for a drawing of a horse race.

P50-II

This unused P50-II clearly has no gaps in the 1st and 2nd dotted address lines.

OFFICIAL P50-I POSTAL STATIONERY
WITH PRIVATE ADDITIONAL PRINTS

1. This P50-I card was sponsored by "die Firma Spielwerg & Co." a company that appears to be related to the Moravian Church Brotherhood. [MORE RESEARCH REQUIRED]



2. This second privately printed P50-I card was sponsored by "The Mechanical Brush Factory" in Bergedorf.



3. The following privately printed P50-I postcard was addressed to a Dr. Blochmann of Kiel

OFFICIAL P50-II POSTAL STATIONERY
WITH PRIVATE ADDITIONAL PRINTS

1. The first private P50-II card was addressed to "Deutschen Burenhilsbund of BERLIN W.50"



2. The next private issue P50-II postcard was addressed to "Die Redaktion, des "Technischen Bauhandbuchs", in HANNOVER"



3. The next P50-II private issue postcard was addressed to "den Verlag des "Kaufmännischen Firmenverzeichnis" in DRESDEN.



4. The P50-II private postcard below was addressed to "Wendt's Cigarrenfabriken Aktiengesellschaft, BREMEN"

OTHER P50 POSTCARDS IN MY COLLECTION

P50-I

P50-II

ABOVE LEFT: (2) - P50-II
ABOVE RIGHT: (2a) - P50-II (Watermark 'I3')

The following card has been cancelled with a BAHNPOST cancellation which appears to be on the line from EISSENACH to FRANKFURT (MAIN). The date is most likely 1901.




ABOVE: (3) - P50-II

The following example was cancelled in ESSEN on the 3rd Oct 1901.




ABOVE: (4) - P50-II

The next card has a much cleaner BAHNPOST cancel and was cancelled on the train from COBURG to LAUSCHA on trian No. 755 on 3rd Jan 1902. The destination was the city of CASSEL.




ABOVE: (5) - P50-II

This following card was sent from FREIBURG to DARMSTADT and was cancelled on 27th Feb 1902.




ABOVE: (6) - P50-II

This next P50-II card was sent from NAUMBURG to RUDOLSTADT on 1st Jan 1901.




ABOVE: (7) - P50-II

The following example of a P50-II has an interesting cancel. The card was cancelled using a KAIS. DEUTSCHE MARINE SCHIFFSPOST No. 33 Cancellation dated 9th Jul 1901 and was destined for a Doctor C. Apstein in Kiel. The reverse has the name of the ship on which the cancellation was applied "The S.M.S Sachsen". The lack of a meaningful message leads to the conclusion that this was likely a philatelic item sent to the doctor to add to his collection.

S.M.S Sachsen was launched on 21st Jul 1877 and was used mainly in a coastal defence role against the French and Russians. Just after the card below was posted the ship accidentally rammed and sank the 'Aviso Wacht'. The following year, in 1902 she was placed in reserve and finally scrapped in 1919 following the defeat of Germany after the First world War.




ABOVE: (8) - P50-II

This following card was cancelled in DARMSTADT on 21st May 1902 and was destined for FREIBURG where it arrived later that day.




ABOVE: (9) - P50-II