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A DISALLOWED PORT GDANSK POSTCARD

A Chicagopex 1996 memento found by Ronny van Waardhuizen is this Februaiy2, 1926, view card sent from Zoppot to Budapest. It was initially franked with a 1O-Groszy Port Gdansk stamp, cancelled with PG cancel, disallowed at the Freie Stadt post office, circled with a blue crayon and superceded by the fight red Mi. No. 202 10-Pterinig stamp, also on the front. The transaction must have taken place at the post office window.

Hans Vogels says that the text on Mr Schmuschkowitz’s card (what’s in a name?) tells that in the future, he will send more pictorial cards with “older Danzig stamps”, and he asks if the Hungarian is also intereste in postcards with Port Gdansk stamps. This is probably also why he put first a Part Gdansk stamp and later the Free City stamp.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 94 - January - February - March - 1997, Page 15.