Galerie

Two Additional Views of T.A.B.R.O.M.I.K.

50 in 1921, the last 1. is damaged in two places. Missing point in right numeral of value.
52 damaged 9 in 1921.
56 damaged 0 in Poznan near U. Incomplete 2 in left numeral of value.

100 Mark Stamp.
Field No. 26 Letter E in Aero damaged.
27  frame damaged next to left 1. in the numeral of value.
50  Letter A in Aero damaged. Letter K and T in the word TABROMIK in landing gear with additive foreign matter.
54  Frame at top left damaged.

Next to farther breaks in the frame line, main point by the 25 Mark Value. Too many perforation errors. For example, there are found unilateral imperfs or whole stamps without perforations.A lso, there is too little space between Mark and landing gear.

Within a short time after the last implemented postal fli9ht on 16.6.1921, intensive interest was aroused for philatelic proof of the special air mail flights and for the unusual Mark stamps. Since then, there has been an unbroken rise in prices for these air mail stamps; as a consequence, the forger is again active.

It is mainly the 100 Mark stamp that is forged. Not only must one be careful of forgeries, but one must be capable of recognizing the oriina1 stamps. Within six months of the last official printing, there appeared succeeding reprints in the trade. Today they are very frequently in collections and in ignorance are offered as originals.

Our second supplement comes from Hans Vogels of Nuenen, the Netherlands. Hans says that all of the literature indicates that the initials P.K.P. meant Poiskie Koleje Pantstwowe for Polish Railroads. John Kovaiski seems to have found the correct translation. In addition to the information on the forgeries and other that follows, Hans has provided the drawing of the Junkers F-13 (on Page 16), the plane that flew the routes under discussion. One correction in the D.R. 73 article: On Pg.ll, reverse designations Genuine and Forged. The following is Hans Vogels’ report on the T.A.B.R.O.M.I.K.:

The Aerotarg Company hired six planes (Junkers F-13) from the Danziger Luftpost (therewith the relationship with Danzig!), writes Adam Jonca in his book: Barwa w lotnictwje Polskim. 2. Samoloty linii lotnicczych 1919-1930. The large with small P letters on the plane stands for Aerotarg Poznan. During my research on covers from Danzig, I found that most of the labels were reprints, with the small lines near the corners of the labels. These lines were used only for the reprints, in order to register the perforations at the right place. However, most of the stamps with the perforations through the labels (misperfs) are reprints. See anomalies on next page.

 

Danzig Report  Nr. 74 - January - February - March - 1992, Page 19.