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Official letter-sheet from the District Court I, Berlin. Featuring a 'Preuss. Langericht I/ Berlin' Court Seal to the reverse. Ref: 17.01.1934 17th January 1934 Court 'doily' seal 1/1 Official letter-sheet from the District Court I, Berlin. Featuring a 'Preuss. Langericht I/ Berlin' Court Seal to the reverse. Ref: 17.01.1934 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Stalag Luft Camps Stalag Luft Camps 1/0 Stalag Luft Camps Stalag Luft 1 Stalag Luft 2 Stalag Luft 3 Stalag Luft 4 Stalag Luft 5 Stalag Luft 6 Stalag Luft 7 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Mi.780 (20.07.1941) Brown Ribbon of Germany Mi.780 (20.07.1941) Brown Ribbon of Germany 1/1 Registered cover sent from Munich to Hungen. Featuring postage stamp Mi.780, tied with commemorative postmark, both celebrating 'The Brown Ribbon of Germany' horse race (won by 'Widling', ridden by G. Streit). Ref: 27.07.1941 - 16/84 Mi.780 'The Brown Ribbon of Germany' Mi.780. Ref: 27.07.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard sent from 'Seestadt Rostock' featuring special cancellation JB:Rostock3/649. Note: the cancellation states, 'Stamp advertising show "Griffin"'. Rostock has had three different coats of arms, known as the Signum, the Secretum and the Sigillum. The Signum, which can be traced back to 1367, was developed last and is to this day the coat of arms of the city. The Signum depicts a golden griffin (German: 'Greif') on a blue background, with bars of silver and red, the colours of the Hanseatic League, below. It can be seen not only on flags and houses, and at bus stops, but also on bridges, gullies, fences, ships and restaurants. Ref: 09.01.1938 9th January 1938 JB: Rostock 09.01.1938 Rostock reverse.jpeg 09.01.1938 Rostock reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard sent from 'Seestadt Rostock' featuring special cancellation JB:Rostock3/649. Note: the cancellation states, 'Stamp advertising show "Griffin"'. Rostock has had three different coats of arms, known as the Signum, the Secretum and the Sigillum. The Signum, which can be traced back to 1367, was developed last and is to this day the coat of arms of the city. The Signum depicts a golden griffin (German: 'Greif') on a blue background, with bars of silver and red, the colours of the Hanseatic League, below. It can be seen not only on flags and houses, and at bus stops, but also on bridges, gullies, fences, ships and restaurants. Ref: 09.01.1938 ROSTOCK cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Rostock3/649 - 'Briefmarken-Werbe-Schau "Greif"/ Tag der Briefmarke/ 1.38.-20'. Ref: 09.01.1938 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Self-addressed and cancelled for a collector, a postcard featuring JB:Eisenach8/251. Ref: 25.06.1938 25th June 1938 JB: Eisenach 25.06.1938 JB_Eisenach8_251 reverse.jpeg 25.06.1938 JB_Eisenach8_251 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Self-addressed and cancelled for a collector, a postcard featuring JB:Eisenach8/251. Ref: 25.06.1938 EISENACH cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Eisenach8/251 -'Kreistag der NSDAP 25/26. Juni 1938'. Ref: 25.06.1938 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

31st December 1945 WEFRA 31st December 1945 WEFRA 1/1 Commercial 'WEFRA" cover sent from Frankfurt to Usingen. Note the 'obliterated ' cancel omitting 'Stadt des Deutschen Handwerks' (JB: Frankfurt77/284). Featuring stamp Mi.7. Ref: 31.12.1945 Link to WEFRA website Additional WEFRA correspondence 'WEFRA-WERBE-WINKE By order of the Military Government - INFORMATION CONTROL DIVISION - Frankfurt a.M. of 3 November 1947, it is unfortunately not possible for us to continue publishing WWW until further notice. We regret this decision all the more as we know from countless letters how valuable the WWW was for the recipients. We hope that we will be able to resume publication of the WWW to the usual extent at a later date.' Commercial postcard sent from WEFRA (on Kronprizenstr.) informing customers of the cessation of the WEFRA catalogue. Ref: 21.11.1947 - 16/16 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

29th January 1945 Stalag XIII-D 29th January 1945 Stalag XIII-D Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 Stalag XIII-D Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Registered cover from Berlin-Lankwitz to Munich. Featuring stamp sequence W126 (Mi.653 + Mi.654 + Mi.653) taken from MHB 61. Ref: 03.04.1938 - 15/8 30th April 1938 MHB 61 30.04.1938 W126 reverse.jpeg 30.04.1938 W126 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Registered cover from Berlin-Lankwitz to Munich. Featuring stamp sequence W126 (Mi.653 + Mi.654 + Mi.653) taken from MHB 61. Ref: 03.04.1938 - 15/8 Labels affixed to the reverse of the envelope 'I would be delighted if you would frank your letters to me with charity, commemorative, advertising or airmail stamps if possible!' 'I would be delighted if you would frank your letters to me philatelically!' Stamp sequences from booket sheet MHB 61 W123 (Mi.654 + Mi.653) from MHB 61. Ref: 09.01.1938 W125 (Mi.653+Mi.654) from MHB 61. Ref: 18.03.1938 - 16/23 W126 (Mi.653 + Mi.654 + Mi.653) from MHB 61. Ref: 30.04.1938 15/8 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

18th August 1941 St.Moritz Hotel 18th August 1941 St.Moritz Hotel 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Hotel stationery for the 'St.Moritz on-the-park', New York. Sent to an address in Berlin. Featuring various censors. With return address at the Hotel Bolivar. Note the 'Dead Letter Office' announcement printed on the envelope flap. Ref: 18.08.1941 St.Moritz on-the-park The Hotel St. Moritz was built on the site of the old New York Athletic Club. The hotel was designed and built in 1930 by the Hungarian-born architect Emery Roth, and constructed by the Harper Organization, representing Harris Uris and Percy Uris. The estimated cost was about $6 million. In 1932, the Bowery Savings Bank took over the hotel and then sold it to the Engadine Corporation, led by the Greek-American hotel magnate S. Gregory Taylor (1888–1948). In 1950, the hotel was completely redecorated and redesigned, and, from the following year on, it housed the Café de la Paix, said to be the first sidewalk restaurant in New York City. Source: Wikipedia Link to interesting blog that is set in the Hotel Bolivar Dead Letter Office A dead letter office (DLO) is a facility within a postal system where undeliverable mail is processed. Mail is considered to be undeliverable when the address is invalid so it cannot be delivered to the addressee, and there is no return address so it cannot be returned to the sender. At a DLO, mail is usually opened to try to find an address to forward to. If an address is found, the envelope is usually sealed using tape or postal seals, or enclosed in plastic bags and delivered. If the letter or parcel is still undeliverable, valuable items are then auctioned off while the correspondence is usually destroyed. Despite this practice, in the past some undeliverable envelopes were acquired by philatelists. Dead letter offices go by different names in different countries. In many English-speaking countries they are called returned letter offices. The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. In 2006, approximately 90 million undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) items ended up in the dead-letter office of the U.S. Postal Service; when the rightful owners cannot be identified, the correspondence is destroyed to protect customer privacy, and enclosed items of value are removed. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th August 1941 28th August 1941 1/1 Commercial cover with 'Durch Eilboten' (express delivery) sent from the Palast-Lichtspiele (Palace Light Theatre), Stuttgart, to Tobis-Filmverleih (Tobis Film Distribution) in Frankfurt. Ref: 28.08.1941

Mi.1-16 (15.08.1940) Luxembourg 1/1 Mi.1 (overprint on Mi.513). Ref: 29.10.1941 Mi.2 (overprint on Mi.514). Ref: 18.11.1940 - 4/58 Mi.13 (overprint on Mi.525). Ref: 18.11.1940 - 4/58