GET TO KNOW GERMANY POSTCARDS

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GET TO KNOW GERMANY
THE FIRST HINDENBURG SERIES
P221 / 41

The First Hindenburg 'Get to Know Germany' series appeared in early 1933 and are collectively refered to as P221. This series comprises a total of 78 different cards, 69 of them have the heading 'Lernt Deutschland Kennen!' and the remaining 9 have either 'Besucht das Grenzland' (1 example), 'Besucht das schöne Schlesien' (5 examples) or 'Prußische Staatsbader' (3 examples).

Cards of the first Hindenburg series are easily identified by the elongated tail on the 'e' of 'Postkarte'. Later issues do not have such an elongated 'e'.



The inscription below the image reads "Solbad Bad Kösen (Saale), | an der Thüringer Pforte"

'Solbad Bad Kösen (Saale), at the Thuringian Gate'.

POSTALLY UNUSED

DRUCKPROBE - TEST PRINTING

POSTALLY USED to C.S.R.

1. The example below was sent to the town of TÜRMITZ near AUSSIG in the C.S.R. The card was cancelled on the train from GLAUCHAU to GERA on 15.6.1933 and was correctly franked at 10 Rpf.

POSTALLY USED DOMESTICALLY

1. The following example was cancelled in DRESDEN-BAD WEISSER HIRSCH on 24th Nov 1941.




2. The next postally used example was cancelled in BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 2 on 15th May 1933





These pages were compiled from several sources including, but not limited to:
1. The 'MICHEL Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018' ISBN 9783954022250
2. KATALOG der DEUTSCHEN GELEGENHEITSSTEMPEL by JULIUS BOCHMANN.