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Also note that the Type 4b stamp was again in use since November 25th, 1939. As I don’t have a Kasemark provisional, I can show a Steegen provisional [B] of 16.11.39. According to the ARGE manual, it was in use from 14.11.39 until 16.11.39, whereafter the Type 4b is recorded.

2. By chance, I also hold a telegram from Tiegenhof dated 20.5.1930, with wedding greetings to newly-married Nickels [C]. I guess blanks had run out of stock, and handy blanks from Danzig were provisionally used. However, as these blanks already bore the imprint Amt Danzig (Amt = office) on the left hand top corner, this was corrected by the overstamping: Tiegenhof/ (Freie Stadt Danzig).

From the other telegram [Dl, it appears that, as a rule, the blanks had been provided with a stamp indicating the post off ice/ location, obviously as a measure of rationalization to relieve the overstressed postman from too much handwriting. See also the enclosed copies of Zoppot [E & F) and Danzig-Langfuhr. Worth noting is the fact that the latter office still used, in 1926, old telegraph labels of the German Reich from 1919/1920, when the word Kaiserl. (Imperial) was left out.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 69 - October - November - December - 1990, Page 25.