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We couldn’t separate the red and black from Lou’s copy of his 190 so we looked up another copy, which may be similar. That is shown at the left, and is 191. The other two enlargements show 190, with the G broken, and 192’s punctured d.

Some additional thoughts on Danzig Report No. 66, especially the article on Landpost history. I would like to question the qualification of the odd cancels specified on Page 16 under b and c:

1.Between 1920, starting with Kalthof on 17.9.20, and 1925, ending with Bohnsack on 18.12.25, a uniform type of cancel substituting the old German types, was introduced for all postal offices within the Free City, with the exception of the urban offices in Danzig and its suburbs. This showed the name of the location on the top line and FREIE STADT DANZIG beneath the date line, known as Type 4a in the ARGE manual. Various provisional cancellations were used in a number of postal offices for a very short stretch of time, to overcome the “cancelless” period from withdrawel of the old cancel until arrival of the new Freie Stadt Danzig cancel. See, for example, the Meisterwalde version of 1921, on the enclosed copy [A). A similar situation arose in 1939 when the war broke out and the Freie Stadt ceased to exist. There the said cancels were updated with their brackets and the words FREIE STADT being removed (ARGE Type 4b).

In this connection, again, provisional cancellations were “invented”. The Kasemark cancel, as shown on Page 17 of the Report, is one of the provisionals. According to Volume II of the ARGE cancellation manual, it was in use from 21.11.39 until 25. 11.39.

The upper cover on Page 17 bears the handwritten date 23.ll.(l939) 7—8 pm beneath Kasemark as date and time of dispatch, and a cancel of Danzig after its arrival there on 24.11.39, since the stamp had not been cancelled at time of postin9 at Kasemark. (An oversight?) On the lower cover the provisional Kasemark cancel was properly stamped over the stamps and a handwritten date set on the very top. a the one—line Kasemark stamp must not be mixed p with Landpost cancellations. [Emphasis by Editor]

 
Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 69 - October - November - December - 1990, Page 23.