Germany : Locals.

Need to ID left hand issue please.
I have Michel Local posts catalogue
unable to spot it.
Thanks

A bonus from Steve ...Thanks

Rod-

How about Breslau (Wroclaw)? The general design is common to some other Hansa cities, but the center is the coat of arms of Breslau. That's John the Baptist in the center.

Hope this helps.

Collin

It does, it does Collin
excellent knowledge there,
What are Hansa cities? I'll check wiki

I make this Michel
E Privat Stadtbrief Beforderung HANSA
Michel#8g karminrot 1897 CV6pf
(or rosarot ..a little cheaper)
Page 55

Thanks

Aha, Hanseatic league.
the reference lingers on.

So Steve sent two stamps linked by Hansa, one of
Estonia Tallinn Town Hall.

Hope you like the stamps, Rod.
I thought you would appreciate them more than me.

Steve

You betcha Steve!

Norman Davies, in his Europe, A History, says of the Hansa, 'Five key offices were maintained: at Bruges - the main terminus of the transalpine trade-route to Venice, at the 'Peterhof' in Novgorod (from 1229), at the 'Steelyard' in London (1237), at the 'German Bridge' in Bergen (1343), and at the annual herring market at Falsterbo in Skania. ... Hansa membership was confined neither to Germany nor the littoral. At various times, over two hundred cities belonged to the network. They stretched from Dinant in the West to Oslo in the North and Narva in the East. Major inland members included Brunswick, Magdeburg, Breslau and Cracow.'

Thanks Tony,
I read about the hanseatic league some time ago,
in JH Parry's "europe and a wider world 1415-1715"
I have dug it out, and currently searching to re read
that part.
I remember being surprised at the advanced and sophisticated
networks of very early shipping.
In the very early years, if you managed to find yourself
at the Cod banks in Northern Canada, there would be consistently
over 200 ships at anchor awaiting the season.

I just noticed the postmark. I love that stamp even more. (The mind is a funny thing...I looked right through the postmark to i.d. the underlying stamp. It didn't even register. The postmark is a winner.)

C.