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Mi.588-597 (04.10.1935)
Traditional Costumes

Mi.588-597
Mi.588-597

Cover sent from Pforzheim to an address in Glendale, Brooklyn USA. Featuring various stamps, including Mi.588 and Mi.594 from the Traditional Costumes issue. Ref: 22.10.1935 - 17/58


Mi.588 - 597

Germany Emergency Aid: Traditional Costumes

 

Notes: Design: Karl Diebitsch (after photographs by Hans Retzlaff). Recess printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1936


The 40+35 Pf value exists in two distinct colours: lilac and purple (Source: Harper & Scheck)

 

Mi.588 (3+2 Pf - East Prussia (Warmia) and Malbork Castle, Marienburg). Ref: 22.10.1935 - 17/58

Note on Mi.588: With the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in the early 1930s, the Nazis used Malbork Castle as a destination for annual pilgrimages of both the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls. The Teutonic Castle at Marienburg served as a blueprint for the Order Castles of the Third Reich built under Hitler's reign. In 1945 during fighting in the area, more than half the castle was destroyed.


 

Mi.589 (4+3 Pf - Upper Silesia, Rossenberg bei Beuthen). Ref: 01.04.1936
Mi.590 (5+3 Pf - Winegrower from the Rhineland Rüdesheim mountain). 25.11.1935 - 9/54
Mi.591 (6+4 Pf - lower Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe [Lindhorst after 1807] and Niedersachsenhof). 07.06.1936 - 1/65
Mi.592 (8+4 Pf - Kurmark (Niederlausitz), Heinersbrück in Spreewald). Ref: 01.04.1936
Mi.593 (12+6 Pf - Black Forest (Erbhofbäuerin Anna Zwick, Gutachtal) and Black Forest house). Ref: 17.04.1936
Mi.594 (15+10 Pf - Hesse, Marburg traditional costum - Niederasphe). Ref: 22.10.1935
 

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