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Postmarks.

For the duration of the Exhibition, the Post Office Danzig 1 organized for July 23 until Juli 31, 1932, sub-post offices in the Monastery of St. Franciscus. A special postmark was used during the time; International Airpost Exhibition Danzig. On the 30th an 31st of July, the Danzig Post Office 5 opened for those two days only. Also, a sub-post office opened in the airport building in Langfuhr. It used the special postmark;
International Airpost Exhibition;
Danzig-Langfuhr - Airpost.

*- Departure and transition postmark.

The mail delivered in Friedrichshafen for the Luposta trips carried the cancel;
Friedrichshafen, Bodensee b, 30.7.32. 18 - 19.
German stamps were postmarked, if they weren't cancelled in their originating town. With all of the other Inland and Foreign mail, this postmark was 'Marked Beside' in the open space. But not all of the mail which passed over Friedrichshafen carries the postmark 'Friedrichshafen b'. Some of it came directly to the onboard post office in the Zeppelin, when the German stamps still needed their cancellation.

'All foreign mail'; from Danzig went thru post office Danzig 5 at the main station. The stamps which were delivered directly there were cancelled 'Danzig 5'. Mailing from other Danzig post offices were also cancelled with the Danzig 5 double circle postmark. This was also common with the mailings from the special post office at the Exhibition, even while it was a sub-office of the main office No. 1 in the Langgasse. All the incoming mail from abroad and directed for Danzig received, upon arrival, the same double-circle Danzig 5 postmark. This also was true for the mail on the Zeppelin trips. All the post from abroad, which arrived here for further dispatch with the cruise on the return trip, was postmarked with the day of arrival. The dates are between th 25th and the 31st of July, 1932. Besides that, there was a curiosity; All the mail which was posted in Danzig and also the mail seat to Danzig (Inland Post), got the transit marking Danzig 5 when they were destinated for the Luposta trips, probably because they would leave the territory of Danzig for a short while. The mail that was delivered on the 30th and...
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