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Letters to the Editor
Since 1975, we have been receiving letters describing certain stamps or covers or commenting on mistakes made in articles. This information has been incorporated in subsequent articles that were related to the subject. Sometimes it took a year or more for a particular subject to be published again, at which time the files were pulled and the information in the letter was added as part of the article. At the same time, we enjoyed reading the Letters to the Editor columns of the APS Journal, the GPS Specialist and the G&CPS Germania. With glacier-like speed, we finally concluded that such a column is exactly what we need. So, fourteen years later, your own Letters column has taken root! Only names and cities will be published, unless you ask for readers to send you information that requires your entire mailing address. Now we can open the musty archives and ask those questions that have stumped humanity since the very beginning of Danzig!

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Some issues ago there was some speculation about a missing cliche for No. 51 variety. Does this help?
- Dave Scheiber
Wilmington, DE


Yes, Dave, your block of 4 shows the break and upward shift of the cliche containing the numerical overprint. Looking back at the full sheets in Report No. 24, one can see that the first sheet (#1) remains fairly uniform across the top; there isn’t any sudden break and shift as in your block. The word Danzig seems to rise a bit in your fields 4 and 14. For other references, blowups of the 511 from fields 83 and 93 are shown in D.R52.

In an early issue of the Report (No.19, back in 1978, you iI!uGtrated an essay (or proof) of an unissued airmail stamp. This value was 5000Mk value which was to be added to the Mi. No. 133 to 137 set to meet the increasing needs of inflation. There was also another value, also unissued, that was to be added to the set. This was the l000Mk value, a pair (illustrated at right) on chalky paper with India ink retouching, mounted on perforated cardboard. Just thought you might like to know about the additional value. Were there others?
- Burt Miller
Pacifica, CA

Up ‘til now, these aie Lhe only two that we have seen. There’s always a chance that more are hanging around the southw est shores of Lake Michigan.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 63 - April - May - June - 1989, Page 6.