OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1937)

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28-Apr-2024 04:49

MICHEL P245
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
GERMAN COLLECTORS' COMMUNITY

Issued 1st Sep 1937 by the German Collectors' Community in support of the Strength Through Joy Organisation to commemorate the "Collecting on Christmas Eve" Exhibition held from 3rd to 5th Sep 1937 at the BERLIN zoo. The card features a 5 Rpf Airmail stamp and the reverse side of the card is blank. The cards were availbale from the Exhibition, and also from postal agencies from 1st to 10th Sep 1937 for 20 Rpf. The additional 15 Rpf from the sale of these cards was a donation to the German Collector's Association.

VALIDITY: Valid for use from 1st Sep 1937 until 31st Dec 1938. Cards can be found cancelled prior to the First Day of Issue and certainly from 3rd Aug 1937.

VARIANTS TO COLLECT

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

1. Used before the official issue date [ie used before 1st Sep 1937]
2. Cancelled on first day of issue 1st Sep 1937 with "BERLIN W62 | Deutsche Sammler-Gemeinshaft" SST
3. As a domestic local delivery without any special features
4. As a domestic long-distance delivery with additional postage
5. As a foreign used card with 10 Rpf to CSR
6. As a foreign used card with 10 Rpf to Hungary
7. As a foreign used card with 15 Rpf
8. As a Registered card
9. As a local delivery Express Delivery card
10. Posted at the Hamburg tram post office
11. Used as a Rohrpost (pneumatic) card in BERLIN
12. Domestic Armail usage
13. European Airmail usage
14. 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

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EXAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION

POSTALLY UNUSED

USED BEFORE THE OFFICIAL ISSUE DATE
[i.e. used before 1st Sep 1937]

Used before the official issue date i.e. [used before 1st Sep 1937]

CANCELLED on FIRST DAY of ISSUE
1st Sep 1937

Cancelled on the official issue date 1st Sep 1937

DOMESTIC LOCAL USE WITHOUT SPECIAL MARKINGS

DOMESTIC LONG-DISTANCE USE
WITH ADDITIONAL POSTAGE

1. Cancelled in GOPINGEN on 4th Sep 1937 this example was sent to a R.A.D address in GRENZMARK.

FOREIGN USE WITH 10 Rpf TO CSR

FOREIGN USE WITH 10 Rpf TO HUNGARY

FOREIGN USE WITH 15 Rpf

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

1. This domestically used P245 postcard was cancelled in NÜRBERG during the 1937 Reichsparteitag held from 6th to 13th Sep. This card has the special cancellation used to commemorate the rally and was sent to KIEL.

2. The next domestically used card was sent from BERLIN to a collector in ALTENBURG on 5th Sep 1937. The front of the card has a special handstamp used in BERLIN to commemorate the K.d.F GERMAN COLLECTOR'S COMMUNITY EXHIBITION held in BERLIN from 3rd to 5th Sep 1937, the same event that the card was issued to advertise. There were eight variants of this special cancel used from 5th to 7th Sep, with counters 'a' through 'h', and this particular example has all of them except for the 'h'.

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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OFFICIAL POSTCARDS (1937)

This page was last updated 28-Apr-2024 04:49

MICHEL P245 OFFICIAL POSTCARD GERMAN COLLECTORS' COMMUNITY