Postage stamps and postal history of the Free City of Danzig
This is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of the Free City of Danzig .
Danzig, now Gdańsk, is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It was the Free City of Danzig with its own stamps from 1920 until 1939.
First stamps
The first stamps of Danzig were
Danzig Free State appeared in January 1921 and continued in use until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.[1] At that time the Free City was annexed by Nazi Germany
.
Polish post office
A
Polish Post Office in Danzig
). This used Polish stamps overprinted PORT GDANSK.
See also
References
Further reading
- OCLC 75585447.
- Jank, Janusz. Działalność usługowa poczty polskiej w wolnym mieście Gdańsku w latach 1920-1939 = The Polish postal service in the Free City of Danzig between 1920-1939. Gdansk: Dyrekcja Okręgu Poczty, 1999 ISBN 8387642150143p.
- Klien, U. E. Alte Marken in neuem Licht: Ein Beitrag zur Danzig-Philatelie. Siegen: The Author, 1987 25p.
- Rittmeister, Werner. Danzig, Sonder- und Werbestempel, 1904-1945. Hamburg: The Author, 1987 48p.
- Weise, Karl Christian. Danzig, Geschichte und Philatelie. Straubenhardt: The Author, 48p.
- Wolff, Klaus. Danzig Stempelkatalog. Berlin: K. Wolff, 1993-2005
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