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"



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


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



3. The example below was cancelled in STUTTGART on 27.02.1929



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.




MAIN REFERENCE SOURCES
1. MICHEL GANZSACHEN DEUTSCHLAND 2018. ISBN: 978-3-95402-225-02. 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
