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DANZIG REPORT STUDY and RESEARCH GROUP

Editor: John H. Bloecher Jr., 1743 Little Creek Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21207

REPORTS “from the field” indicate that our spring GPS Convention in Milwaukee was quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, the Editor was forced to cancel plans after slipping on ice and breaking a hip. We mention this only to apologize to those who attended MILCOPEX and weren’t able to find a Danzig meeting and to those who haven’t received a decent reply to correspondence. A tough winter has ended !

IF there is an orange sticker in the left margin and a yellow dues notice where page 2 normally resides, please be advised that you owe at least four bucks. Dues will probably stay at the same level until next year, so you may want to take advantage of the multi-year subscription.

ESPERANTO is the subject, and we have reprinted each of the 22 postal stationery cards of 1927. These originated for ‘the 19th Universal Congress of Esperanto and showed 11 views on each of green-inked 10 Pfg. cards (Mi. P 391) and red-inked 20 Pfg. cards (Michel P 401). They contain no vertical separation line (Teilstrich) or frame (Umrandung). The reduced illustration at the left is from Herb Schulz’s article in the GPS Postal Stationery Group’s Summer 1978 Bulletin No. 10: “A Synopsis of German View Card Stationery”. This article covered government issued views and stated that the additional space of 22 to 24 mm added to the top and bottom facilitated the card’s use in typewriters. Herb also states the scarcity of used cards with margins intact. Our limited experience with this issue confirms his claim, and we found it necessary to use two illustrations from C. Michaelis’ “Kleines Handbuch der Ganzsachen von Danzig und des Polnischen Postamts Danz.” as examples of used “Schreibmaschinenrand” oversized cards. Michel lists the perforated (gezähnt, gez.) cards as P 3911 and P 4011.

Esperanto was intended to become an international language and was first seen in the text of a book first published in 1887 by Ludovic Zamenhof; who lived from 1859 until 1917.

 

Danzig Report  Nr. 34 - 1st. Quarter 1982, Page 1.