21st July 1934
JB: Lübeck
Cover sent from Lübeck to an address in Berlin. Featuring postage stamp Mi.542 tied with special cancel JB: Lübeck7/506. Ref: 21.07.1934
LÜBECK cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952)
Note on JB:Lübeck7/506 - Rotspon (from Middle Low German spōn= wooden vessel) is an old German word for red cask wine and in a narrower sense a French red wine that is transported in a barrel and matured and bottled in a northern German Hanseatic city.
The term Lübecker Rotspon refers to Bordeaux wines imported from France in barrels and stored in Lübeck until they were ready for bottling and then bottled. From the 16th century onwards, salt was shipped between Lübeck and the coast of Biscay as a preservative for fish. Barrels of Bordeaux wine were also included in the shipment. The idea of refining this red wine, which was transported by sea, by maturing and storing it in Lübeck goes back to the Lübeck councillor and merchant Thomas Fredenhagen.
Source: Wikipedia
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