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Public Auction #425

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 14, 2015 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated August 14, 2015 at 6:21pm (New York time)

COVERS — Germany
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
53CVGermany Kraft durch Freude collection 1935-1939. Abbreviated KdF (German for Strength through Joy), was a large state operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany and became the world’s largest tourism operator of the 1930s. KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle class leisure activities available to the masses. This was underscored by having cruises with passengers of mixed classes and having them, regardless of social status, draw lots for allocation of cabins. This collection focuses on the cruise ships with dozens of photographs, picture postcards, menus, and brochures. 86 original pieces in all from all sorts of cruise liners and vacation cruises. Plenty of original firsthand accounts of prewar travel on the backs of the cards with a dozens of onboard cancels. Great start to an interesting area with enough diversity in the information to form a prize winning single frame exhibit.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $450.00
54CVGermany covers and postcards in two binders. Comprises around 100 WWI era postcards and roughly 200 mainly postal stationery, postcards, (some are dubious) and covers having a concentration from the Nazi era. Collectors should view as there could be some gems waiting to polish your collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $500.00
55CVGermany six covers all with interesting postal history. The first is a May 19, 1912 “Offizielle Luft-Post-Karte” for the Mannheim to Heidelberg flight. The rest are various Soviet occupied area early post war covers. All are registered and multifranked. Includes #12NB10-12NB12, 13N1-13N12, 14N15-14N20, and two other mixed franked covers. The webphotos add enough information for an informed bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $190.00
56CVGermany and areas covers, fantastic discovery. Over 700 unsearched packet cards from the Nazi era 1943-1944 from Germany, Poland General Government, and Bohemia Moravia. Put away and forgotten years ago most are addressed to residents/prisoners of the infamous concentration camp in Flossenburg, Bavaria. Each one lists a recipient often with name, date of birth and inmate number and block code. Most were saved for the heavy franking they exhibit with plenty of interesting wartime stamps and represent sent packages of 2 kg. and larger. Now these are very useful in building a database of these peoples’ happenstance and connection to loved ones. Wartime history filled with facts to trace the ending places of so many people. Postal, genealogical, and world history buffs take heed for this is one of the largest hoards of this material to ever hit the market in one piece. Irreplaceable.Cat. Value: S.B. 6,500.00
Price Realized: $5,000.00