OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1922)

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P153
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
80Pf + 40Pf

BACKGROUND: Issued Mar 1922. Only valid for domestic usage. On the occasions when these cards were incorrectly used, by adding additional postage, and then sending the card abroad (foreign usage), they were supposed to be returned to the sender as they did not meet the standards of the U.P.U (Universal Postal Union). However that was not always the case.

These cards were released to take account of another increase in the postal rates. This card is the same design as P141 but with an additional number inside a rosette.

There are two versions of this card as follows:

P153-I: with four straight edges.
P153-II: with a serrated edge.

In addition to the regular official card described above there were at least four private printings.

SPECIAL CANCEL: NONE

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MICHEL P153 I
Without Serrated Edges

MICHEL P153 II
With Serrated Edges

OFFICIAL POSTAL STATIONERY
WITH PRIVATE ADDITIONAL PRINTS

1. Sender's section has green image of baker and girl sitting on a pretzel and text "Backerei Ausstellung".
2. As above, only now with text and image in orange.
3. Sender's section has 6 lines of vertical text including "Gauturnfest in Süize".
4. Destination address "Literature Abteilung der | Pharmakon G.m.b.H | Frankfurt a. Main"

5. Destination address "Firma | F. & C. Achenbach | Verbandstoff-Fabrik | Frankfurt a.M.-West"

OTHER P153 POSTCARDS FROM MY COLLECTION

DOMESTIC USAGE

1. This first domestically used card was sent from BERLIN to the town of BAD SULZA, a rural community in the Thuringian district of Weimarer Land, on 14th Jul 1922. The card has pre-printed and self-adhesive stamps to the value of 150Pf.

2. This second example was sent from LEIPZIG to HOHNSTEIN in the border region of Saxon-Switzerland on 7th Jun 1922.

3. The following card was posted at STUTTGART railway station on 22nd May 1922 and was destined for the town of ULM.

4. The P153 card below was posted in KÖLN (Cologne) on 3rd Jul 1933

5. The next domestically used P153 postcard was sent to a well-known philatelic company named ROBERT NORSKE in BORNA on 29th Mar 1922. The Robert Norske company produced their own privately overprinted P153 cards as well as many others during the 1920's.

FOREIGN USAGE

THE NETHERLANDS

1. The following P153 card is an example of a card that was incorrectly used. In this case the card was sent from KARLSRUHE to The HAAG in the NETHERLANDS on 19th Jul 1922, clearly not a domestic destination. Additional stamps have been added for a total of 2.15 Marks.

SWITZERLAND

2. Below is another overseas usage of this postcard sent from FREIBURG to BASEL in SWITZERLAND on 31st Aug 1922. In addition to the pre-printed 125Pf stamps ae four self-adhesive stamps to the value of 225PF for a total of 350Pf.