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Hi Joe ... Nice stamps. I have always perferred cancelled as opposed to mint. They show more history as to where the stamp had been posted. Also, there are some which carry higher values in cancelled condition.

The following cover is very interesting as it has been many places. It still contains the original letter.

REVERSE

Here is an extremely unusual color illustrated postcard depicting a plain clothes officer of the Sicherheitspolizei and his dog looking for something or someone.

....and the reverse of the card.

Maybe they are looking for this guy. Note the little man in the back!

A little surprising...the officer is approving the private ownership of a handgun!

Jerry,

Great postcards. The first one is part of a series on the Deutschen Polizei. I have never seen the other two. If you have any duplicates of the Bilderserie let me know.

Here is another postcard in the series. This is a uniform plate of the Feuerwehr by Kn�tel.

George

Well known great card!

Reverse of the well known card.

A wonderful not so well known card!

Wow! Here is a Very rare card, again in honor of the Police.

...and the reverse. Note the unit marking!

Oh I forgot, here is a nice cover!

Ludwig, where are you...in Zurich or Geneva?

As the war went on the stamps became a little poorly perforated, but still the Police had to get their mail.

trouble!

Jerry,

I always like stamps that vary from the norm. They make nice additions to a display, or just to have them.

I have a few nice items coming, hope that I receive them before Xmas.

Going through my collection last evening, I came across a stamp that I had forgotten about for years. It's considered as the first Xmas stamp produced. It's from Canada and I'll include it in my next posting. Have to get it out and scann it first, so I may be too late to add it to this posting.

Considered to be the first Christmas stamp ... CANADA POSTAGE 2 cent "XMAS 1898"

These are great covers, stamps, and cancellations guys! Now I remember why I collected stamps and covers as a kid.

All this stamp talk set off something in my brain last week. I just spent the last two weeks in Hawaii where I attended the Pearl Harbor Survivor Association 65th Reunion with my father-in-law. Archie was on board the Heavy Cruiser New Orleans on 7 December 1941 and was on watch in the communications bridge when the Japanese attack started. He spent the next short period of time shooting at Japanese airplanes with a Springfield bolt action rifle from the arms locker while watching bombs hit the airfield on Ford's Island and the battleships sink. Archie is what the Japanese call a true "First to Laster," in the war from the first day to the last.

Anyway, while we were at the Arizona Memorial on 7 December 2006 the post office was set up doing special Pearl Harbor canceled covers. I bought a couple and had Archie sign mine. A very special cover for me.

George

Here is a picture of my father-in-law, Signalman Archie Scott in 1941. This photo was taken in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu a couple of months before the Japanese attack.

It is interesting how personal history can bring these postal stamps to life.

George

If anyone is interested in obtaining some of the Nazi era semi postals with war scenes or any of the TR era stamps, I have some extras so contact me. Use Scott numbers or describe what you are looking for or want and I will check my stamps.
Ron Weinand
Weinand Militaria

I just got this great little piece of history : Czech stamp with soldier on it and German cancel for a "liberated" town at the Elbe river ,cover with nazi eagle cancel and date , and " Tag der Befreiung "- meaning "Day of liberation ". Bernd

Here now the same stamp of the Prussian State Police that George had show , used on a train "workers-ticket " request for travel from Luebeck to Hamburg and back for Heinrich Rueter ( who was a close friend of ours ). Intersting part of this paper is that he worked as a teacher for " Marinehelfer " and the paper has a Kriegsmarine cancel and is signed by a Oberleutnant of the M.A. ( MARINE ARTILLERIE )und Batterie Chef .

..Close-up of the stamp with " Der Polizeipraesident Luebeck " cancel.

Note the late date of the signature as 19.1.45 ; the Marine signature is even later 31.Januar 1945! The paper work was still being done CORRECTLY that late in the war !!! Bernd .

For those interested, the official name for the stamp pictured in my avatar is:

DEUTSCHE FELDPOST TUNIS P�CKCHENMARKE -- Michel Catalog No. 5a

One of these is for sale by a dealer I trust in the multi - thousand dollar area. Always buy from someone in a professional group like the ASDA - the American Stamp Dealers Association. In the postal area I esp. like propaganda postcards they are very colorful & the graphic images are wonderful.