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OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1929)

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P187
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
8 Rpf

BACKGROUND: Issued 1929 and featuring a pre-printed 8 Rpf Ebert stamp. There were two very similar versions of this card, the other, P186, has a 5 Rpf Paul von Hindenburg pre-printed stamp.

Both cards were specially issued to advertise 'Reich's Accident Week' and have an image of a hand holding a snake and the inscription:

"Reichs
Unfallverhutungs=Woche
24. Februar bis 3. Marz
1929"

As well as the official P187 there were two private versions available.

SPECIAL CANCEL: There was a slogan cancel available inscribed "Reichs- | Unfall- | verhütungs- | Woche"

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OTHER EXAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION

1. This first example was sent by a company named Schuh-Neumann of ALTONA to an address in WERMELSKIRCHEN on 15th Mar 1929

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2. The following example was also addressed to a company, this time the company of Georg Farnbacher, a paper supplier from FÜRTH in BAVARIA. The sender posted the card in EISLINGEN on 16.04.1929

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3. The example below was cancelled in STUTTGART on 27.02.1929

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4. The next card was sent by a stamp dealer, Robert Noske of BORNA, to a fellow dealer, Albert Bayer in CHEMNITZ on 21.06.1933.

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MAIN REFERENCE SOURCES

1. MICHEL GANZSACHEN DEUTSCHLAND 2018. ISBN: 978-3-95402-225-0
2. BOREK GANZSACHEN-SPEZIAL-KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND ab 1933. ISBN: 3-87091-060-7
3. MICHEL BILDPOSTKARTEN- UND MOTIVGANSACHEN KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND 1997. ISBN: 3-87858-631-0
4. GANZSACHEN-HANDBUCH DES "DITTEN REICHES" 1933-1945 by FRECH. ISBN: UNKNOWN


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8 Rpf EBERT