OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1941)

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P299
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
6 Rpf HITLER PoRTRAIT

VALIDITY: 1st Aug 1941 until the end of the war.

BACKGROUND: Issued from 1st Aug 1941 and featuring a Hitler Medallion stamp. Permanent postcards. Text is in Antigua font and the sender's note is now on three lines.

In addition there were several private printings of P299.

SPECIAL CANCEL: N/A

VARIANTS TO COLLECT

The following are suggested variants that might make good additions to a collection:

1. Cancelled on first day of issue 1st Aug 1941
2. As a domestic long-distance card without any special features
3. As a foreign used card with 15 Rpf
4. As a Registered Delivery card
5. As a local delivery Express Delivery card
6. Used as a Rohrpost (pneumatic) card in BERLIN
7. Domestic Airmail usage
8. Overseas Airmail usage
9. Postally unused
10. Domestic Bahnpost usage
11. Invalid Usage - either after expiration date or with incorrect postage applied
12. With additional private printing
13. With Special slogan cancels

EXAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION

POSTALLY UNUSED

CANCELLED on FIRST DAY of ISSUE

Cancelled on the official issue date 1st Aug 1941

DOMESTIC LONG DISTANCE WITHOUT SPECIAL MARKINGS

1. The postally used card below was cancelled in TORGAU on 18th Aug 1941 and was sent to an unknown destination.




2. The card below was an unknown domestic long-distance usage

FOREIGN USE WITH 15 Rpf

FOREIGN USAGE

ITALY

1. The following foreign used card was sent from WIEN to FIRENZE in ITALY on 7th Nov 1944.

HOLLAND

1. The next P299 postcard was cancelled in BERLIN, LICHTERFELDE on 30th Nov 1942 and was destined for NAARDEN in the province of North Holland.

SWITZERLAND

1. Another example with destination SWITZERLAND was cancelled in DARMSTADT on 5.1.1943 and was correctly franked at 15 Rpf.

REGISTERED DELIVERY CARD

EXPRESS DELIVERY CARD

POSTED AS ROHRPOST IN BERLIN

DOMESTIC AIRMAIL

OVERSEAS AIRMAIL

DENMARK

1. The next example was also cancelled on 18th Nov 1942 and was sent to Copenhagen, Denmark.




2. The following example was cancelled in BERLIN on 24th Mar 1944.

HUNGARY

1. The P299 postcard below was sent via Airmail from VIENNA to BUDAPEST in HUNGARY on 11th Nov 1942.

NORWAY

1. The Luftpost example below was cancellled in DARMSTDT on 29.8.44.

SWITZERLAND

1. The following example was cancelled at BERLIN-DAHLEM on 2.3.1944 and was sent to ZURICH, SWITZERLAND via Aimail.

GERMAN BAHNPOST

1. The P299 postcard below was cancelled on the AUGSBURG-WEILHEIM train, number 2574, on 17th Nov 1941. The final destination was MUNICH




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INVALID USAGE

SPECIAL SLOGAN CANCELS

1. The following domestically used P299 postcard was sent from BERLIN to HANNOVER. The card has been cancelled with a special cancel used to commemorate the 1941 "Großer Preis der Reichshauptstadt" - 'Grand Prix of the Reich Capital', part of the Annual Blue Ribbon Horse Racing event. The special cancel features three race horses. There are two versions of this cancel as follows:

I. High text letters, hatching stretches between the hind legs of the first and second horse.
II Low text letters, without dash between the hind legs of the first and second horse.



ABOVE LEFT: Type I (P)
ABOVE RIGHT: Type II (P)




2. The following card was postally used on 26th May 1942 and was destined for KÖLN. The special handstamp featured here is an example of one of the many types of Safety at Work promotional postcards.




3. This card was sent to the Sanotorium in SCHÖMBERG fro MÜLHAUSEN on 22nd Sep 1942.




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MAIN REFERENCE SOURCES

1. MICHEL GANZSACHEN DEUTSCHLAND 2018. ISBN: 978-3-95402-225-0
2. BOREK GANZSACHEN-SPEZIAL-KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND ab 1933. ISBN: 3-87091-060-7
3. MICHEL BILDPOSTKARTEN- UND MOTIVGANSACHEN KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND 1997. ISBN: 3-87858-631-0
4. GANZSACHEN-HANDBUCH DES "DITTEN REICHES" 1933-1945 by FRECH. ISBN: UNKNOWN