Galerie

In This Report:

1. Zustellungs—Urkunde cover in color ..................................................... Pg.  1
2.  Elusive Oliva ..............................................................................................2—3
3. ZweiskreisstempelReview .........................................................................4—5
4. DecipheringGermanscript ............................................................................. 6
5. Was 1st ?...........................................................................................................7
6 . Prussian cancel 3 04 ...................................................................................... 8
7. Epidemics and Disinfected Mail .............................................................. 9—14

look at the the examples in Report #38, pages 10 and 11, you will see that all provide the 10 Gulden return postage, applied in the original franking! This indicates that the court had anticipated return of the mail and paid for it in advance. In the Ladung or Summons on Page 10 mentioned above, the solid horizontal line that is under the date is the same point in which our example under discussion was trimmed, folded and mailed. Binding of the document in the file was accomplished thru two holes at the left. Another violet one-line hand stamp reads: ____Pf. Porto und Zustellungsgebuhr Erstattet, with space for a return and service charge not filled in. This item was valid from Danzig 5 from April to November 1925.

2. Elusive Oliva
On the next page is a copy of the elusive Oliva malfunction, this time found on used copy of D.R. No. 728y. The discovery of this copy was made at a small bourse near Washington, D.C., and the dealer wasn’t aware of such an anomaly. The CCTV enlargement of Danzig No. 212a shows what this searcher has always found - a normal Oliva - although this copy does have the Bleistjftstriche at both the right and bottom margins due to the misregister of the black plate. The German cousin has suffered an empty space only on the right margin.

Karl Kniep reports in the Arge Danzig that the Oliva Plattenfehler was once identified in the following fields:
Field 26: Nos. 207, 212a, 212b, 231 but never with 230.
Field 42: Nos. 297, D.R. 728x, D.R. 728y.

Now comes Bud Hennig with his full sheets, and they discover that in examining the lower-left corner block of No. 231 (Fields 41, 42, 46 and 47), the error is in Field 42, not 26! This plate flaw wasn’t identified in Michel until the 1982—83 Edition, and then as a DD designation, in Field 42. Karl then points out that Oliva can exist in Field 42 also with the extra line in the 0, but missing the double 1 or i.

 

Danzig Report Nr. 60 - July - August - September - 1988, Page 3.