Commercial cover sent from Rhonheimer & Elkan GmbH, Mannheim, to Glen & Co., Glasgow, Scotland, bearing the company's distinctive 25 Pfennig advertising meter impression. Rhonheimer & Elkan was an established Jewish-owned concern specialising in jute fabrics, sacks and blankets, with operations in Mannheim and Düsseldorf.

The cover was posted during the period of increasing economic persecution of Jewish businesses under National Socialist rule. Two years later, in 1938, Rhonheimer & Elkan was sold to Hans Andreae of Hamburg-Wandsbek. Crucially, the surviving file concerning this transaction is preserved by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives amongst the Baden Ministry of Finance's official “Arisierungsakten” (Aryanisation files).

Following the acquisition, the original company was dissolved and Andreae continued the business as “Hans Andreae vorm. Rhonheimer & Elkan” — Hans Andreae, formerly Rhonheimer & Elkan.

Berthold Rhonheimer, the Jewish businessman associated with the firm, subsequently became a victim of Nazi persecution and appears in records concerning the 1940 Gurs deportations. He died in 1941. Ref: 03.01.1936 - 18/69