OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1937)

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MICHEL P265
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
HARVEST THANKSGIVING FESTIVAL

Validity: Issued on 1st Oct 1937 and valid for use until 30th Jun 1938.

This Official postcard was used to celebrate The Harvest Thanksgiving Festival and Reich's Farmer's Day in 1937. The indicia stamp is the same as that on Michel Block 7 and Block 8, featuring a picture of Adolf Hitler. The image on the left shows a group of farmers with a wreath of ducks and is based on a Heinrich Hoffmann photograph.

The card retailed for 25 Rpf with the balance of 19 Rpf being a donation to Hitler's Culture Fund.

There were two almost identical rectangular special cancels used in BÜCKEBERG inscribed 'BÜCKEBERG | Erntedanktag'. The rectangle is made up of four ears of wheat, one for each side. The first is a machine cancel where the circular CDS and the rectangle are separate and the second is a hand roller cancel almost the same except it has seven horizontal lines connecting the round CDS and the rectangle.

VARIANTS TO COLLECT

The following are suggested variants that might make good additions to a collection:

1. Cancelled before the first day of issue i.e. before 1st Oct 1937
2. Cancelled on first day of issue 1st Oct 1937
3. With special "BÜCKEBERG b. HAMELN, Erntedanktag" handstamp (with two circles)
4. With special "BÜCKEBERG Ernte-Danktag" machine stamp (with one circle)
5. With special "BÜCKEBERG Ernte-Danktag" machine stamp (with two circles)
6. With special "BÜCKEBERG Ernte-Danktag" hand roller stamp
7. With special "Goslar Harz Reichsbauernstadt" hand stamp
8. As a domestic long-distance card without any special features
9. As a foreign used card with 10 Rpf to CSR
10. As a foreign used card with 10 Rpf to Hungary
11. As a foreign used card with 15 Rpf
12. As a Registered card
13. As a local delivery Express card
14. Posted at the Hamburg tram post office
15. Used as a Rohrpost (pneumatic) card in BERLIN
16. Domestic Armail usage
17. European Airmail usage
18. Airmail usage to the USA from Bodensee (Lake Constance)


I would also add the following items:
1. Postally unused
2. Domestic Bahnpost usage
3. Invalid Usage - either after expiration date or with incorrect postage applied
4. With additional private printing
5. Other Special slogan cancels

EXAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION

POSTALLY UNUSED

CANCELLED BEFORE the FIRST DAY of ISSUE

Cancelled before the official issue date of 1st Oct 1937

CANCELLED on FIRST DAY of ISSUE

Cancelled on the official issue date 30th Apr 1934

BÜCKEBERG b. HAMELN, ERNTEDANKTAG"
HANDSTAMP (WITH TWO CIRCLES)

With special circular "BÜCKEBERG b. HAMELN, ERNTEDANKTAG" handstamp (with two circles).

1. Postally used in BÜCKEBERG and sent to SEESTADT ROSTOCK on 3rd Oct 1937.

"BÜCKEBERG HAMELN ERNTE-DANKTAG"
MACHINE STAMP (WITH ONE CIRCLE)

With special "BÜCKEBERG Ernte-Danktag" machine stamp with the CDS made of a single circle and a gap between the right-hand ear of corn and the CDS circle.

"BÜCKEBERG ERNTE-DANKTAG"
MACHINE STAMP (WITH TWO CIRCLES)

With special "BÜCKEBERG ERNTE-DANKTAG" machine stamp (with two circles) 1. Fabour cancelled example of special machine cancellation with two circles.

"BÜCKEBERG ERNTE-DANKTAG"
HAND ROLLER STAMP

With special "BÜCKEBERG Ernte-Danktag" Hand roller stamp. Differentiated from the similar looking machine stamps above as the 7 horizontal lines almost touch the right-hand ear of corn.

1. Postally unused and favour cancelled on 3rd Oct 1937




2. The following example was sent from BÜCKEBERG to FRANKFURT a.MAIN, on 2nd Oct 1937.




3. The next used example was sent from BÜCKEBERG to DIEBURG (HESSE), on 3rd Oct 1937. It also has two different cancels; the special hand roller cancel (counter "b") and the "BÜCKEBERG b. HAMELN" special handstamp with counter 'd' .




4. Destined for LEIPZIG this card was sent from BÜCKEBERG on 3rd Oct 1937 and features the hand roller cancellation.




5. Destined for FRANKFURT (ODER) the following card was sent on 3rd Oct 1937 from BÜCKEBERG. Again this card has the hand roller special cancellation.




6. The following example was favour cancelled with special handstamp.

WITH SPECIAL "GOSLAR HARZ REICHSBAUERNSTADT"
HAND STAMP

With special "GOSLAR HARZ REICHSBAUERNSTADT" hand stamp

DOMESTIC LONG DISTANCE WITHOUT SPECIAL MARKINGS

1. The example below was probably a local usage in OSCHATZ (OSCHATZ-GRIMMA ?) and was sent on 8th Oct 1937.

FOREIGN USE WITH 10 Rpf TO CSR

The following card, sent to GROTTAU in the C.S.R on 9th Feb 1938 and was over franked by 14 Rpf for a total of 24 Rpf.

FOREIGN USE WITH 10 Rpf TO HUNGARY

FOREIGN USE WITH 15 Rpf

1. This foreign used example was sent from LAUF (PEGNITZ), on 8th Jan 1938 to MILWALKEE, WISCONSIN, USA. Additional 10 Rpf Hindenburg Medallion self-adhesive stamp has been added to cover the additional postage to the US.




2. Correctly franked at 15 Rpf this next example was sent from SCHLESWIG to SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA on 4th Oct 1937

REGISTERED CARD

EXPRESS DELIVERY CARD

HAMBURG TRAM POST OFFICE

Posted at the Hamburg tram post office

POSTED AS ROHRPOST IN BERLIN

DOMESTIC AIRMAIL

EUROPEAN AIRMAIL

AIRMAIL TO USE FROM LAKE CONSTANCE

GERMAN BAHNPOST

INVALID USAGE

SPECIAL SLOGAN CANCELS

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