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City Danzig - The Germania Burelage Issue.

12. April, 1921.
Package card with Registration from Sobbowitz (Danzig) to Halle on the Saale river in Germany.
Card is franked with a 3 Mark green on reddish-orange stamp from the burelage issue (greenish-grey burelage, points UP) and a 1 Mark red stamp from the first Danzig issue. The Postal rate from May 6, 1920 applies as follows for a total of 4.0 Marks for the 2½ Kg. package:
Postage: - - - - - - - - 3.0 Marks
Registration: - - - - - 1.0 Mark
Card is cancelled with pen cancellations instead of the usual cork cancels and there is no date cancel on the front. There is a violet Registration (Einschreiben) imprint and a package label from Sobbewitz (Kr. Dirschau). Card is backstamped with a Halle (Saale) cancel dated 13.4.21. 7-8V. There is also a black circular censur stamp on the front from Saale.