9th April 1940
JB: Kempen
Cover sent from Kempen featuring two commemorative stamps (5 Pf - Mi.732, and 3 Pf - Mi.739), together with a Danzig 4 Pf definitive overprint (Mi.717). All tied with JB:Kampen1/416. Ref: 09.04.1940
KAMPEN cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952)
Note: JB:Kampen1/416 was used continuously between 1939 and 1952. It was the only special cancellation used in Kampen during the Third Reich period.
The word 'Stahlrohrmöbel' translates as 'tubular steel furniture' and most likely represents the works at L & C Arnold in Kempden. There in the 1920's the company worked with steel tubes as a construction element of furniture, particularly shaping the chair design of the avant-garde of that time.
Whilst not specifically manufactured by L & C Arnold, the iconic tubular furniture of the time is exemplified in the design of Marcel Breuer and the 'Wassily Chair'
A link to the Wikipedia page regarding this chair design can be found here.
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