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Mi.499-507 (01.11.1933) Operas by Richard Wagner

Cover sent from Hamburg to Exter, featuring Mi.499 (3 Pf - Tannhäuser) and Mi.507 (40 Pf - Parsifal). Ref: 17.11.1933 - 14/47

Stamps first issued on 1st November 1933. The first charity stamps of the 3rd Reich period (German aid for the needy), the images depict various scenes from Richard Wagner’s Operas.


 

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Mi.499 - Tannhäuser. Ref: 17.11.1933 - 14/47
Mi.500 - Scene depicting the Flying Dutchman. Ref: 06.03.1934
Mi.501 - From 'Rheingold' a scene depicting the three sisters of the Rhine, Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde. After loosing the Rhinegold to the dwarf Alberich, so commences the sequence of events which form the subject of the 'Ring' series of operas. Alberich is seen in the background with the stolen Rheingold from which he fashions the magic ring. Ref: 20.08.1934 - 2/35
Mi.502B - In a scene from Act II of 'The Mastersinger', Hans Sachs, the cobbler, sits in front of his dwelling making shoes for Beckmesser, one of the rivals for the hand of the lovely Eva. Ref: 16.04.1934 BETTER COPY REQUIRED
Mi.503 - From 'Die Walküre', a scene depicting Woton, the God of Gods, bending over Brünnhilde, his daughter, and one of the shield maidens (Valkyries), and taking her helmet from her. This is a scene from Act III where Brünnhilde, having displeased her father, is put by him into the magic trance from which she is awakened by Siegfried. Ref: 20.08.1934 - 2/35
Mi.504 - The scene depicts Siegfried slaying Fafner, guardian of Wotan's treasure and the magic ring. Ref: 20.08.1934 - 2/35
Mi.507 - Parsifal. Ref: 17.11.1933 - 14/47


 

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