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WAS IST DAS?

WAS IST DAS? John Kovaiski of Georgia has sent in a Xerox copy of a 1903 Danzig used post card that takes on a 3-D effect when held up to the light. Does anyone have any data on this type of picture card?

WE WON’T COMMENT on the strange Luftpost cover of last month, mainly because no one has come up with definitive answers. However, we should have considerably more information to answer parts of the riddle in the May issue. A key factor is in the dating of the MIT LUFTPOST labels.

ONE MEMBER HAS asked us for an explanation of “favor” or cancelled-to-order since he can find no simple iistintion in the used specimens that he owns. This is a good question that bothers most of us non-experts: were there special cancels used by the post office for CTO’s? If not, how can the experts tell them from postally used? Let’s have a short article from someone who knows.

ONE RECENT blatant example of CTO was a sheet of paper with 6 Danzig stamps pasted in various positions and called a “First Day Cover” by a respected dealer who should know better.

INFLATION may not be quite as scary if Del Meinung sends us some of the information he has on postal rates, etc. Del heads the Infation Study Group and his Bulletins are highly recommended.

OFFSET in philately has no relationship to lithograph stones, at least in the case of wet sheets printing on the rear of the sheet above it. (See 155U and 78)

- Note the cancellation on the left in which the “Freie Stadt” slogan was routed out in deference to the Nazis.

 

Danzig Report   Nr. 2 - April - 1975, Page 2.