Abbreviations

Notes on Abbreviations

Date references used throughout this website usually refer to

where the item is filed within the collection.

BV = pages referenced in R. James Bender's 'Postcards of Hitler's Germany - Postal Stationery/ Printed to Private Order/ Propaganda'.

(1995 - three volumes - various contributors).

E.g. BV1283 = Bender, Volume 1, page 283

ET = pages referenced in Ernst Trory's 'XI Olympiad. A Philatelic History of the Olympic Games, Part 6, Garmisch-Partenkirsch - Berlin - Keil (1936)'.

1970. Brighton:Crabtree Press.

E.g. ET64(P38) = Ernst Trory, 64 = 'Berlin Deutschlandhalle', (P38) = style of cancel

HL = pages referenced in Horst Landsmann's 'Die Zensur von Zivilpost in Deutschland im 2. Weltkrieg'. 2nd edition, Sept. 2019.

E.g. HLBD1.1/47 = Horst Landsmann, BD1.1 = censor reference, 47 = page number

JB: = pages referenced in Julius Bochmann's 'Katalog der deutschen Gelegenheitsstempel' (18 volumes), 1952.

E.g. JB:Mannheim50/524 = Julius Bochmann, Mannheim (place reference), 50 = catalogue reference for that place, 524 = page number

or for multiple town/ city use the place name will be dropped leaving:

E.g. JB:228/824

Mi. = catalogue number from Michel 'Germany Specialized 2016' Vols. 1 & 2. Michel catalogue references also used for non-German stamps as required.

MFP = (Michel Feldpost) pages referenced in 'Michel - Handbuch-Katalog Deutsche Feldpost 1937-1945'. 2002. Schwaneberger Verlag.

E.g. MFP17/87 = Michel Feldpost, #17, page 87

MPS = (Michel Postal Stationery) pages referenced in 'Michel Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018'. 2018. Schwaneberger Verlag.

E.g. MPS254 = Michel Ganzsachen page 254

RT: = catalogue number from Reinhard Tieste, 'Spendenbelege des Deutschen Jugenherbergswerkes (DJH)'. 1990

E.g RT: DJH041

SS = Souvenir Sheet - referenced in the G&CPS publication 'The Souvenir Sheets of the Third Reich', 1995 (revised 1999).

E.g. SSB40/7 = Souvenir Sheet, section B, #40/7

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