I'm currently going through the collection trying to sort out and research interesting cancels. This one instantly stood out so I started with it. I couldn't believe how little information I could find on the town.
I will assume the stamp is pretty common, but if I'm mistaken please let me know. What I'm more interested in is the city "Duppau" cancel that is stamped on the front. I have tried to do bit of research but I have not come up with much. I would like to know what you could tell me about that city, and if that specific cancel is scarce as well, or just as common as the stamp that is is on. The information I have been able to come up with is below.
Alright, I'm at work right now and I only have this small picture I took of the entire page this stamp is on in the album, but I have cropped just the stamp in question to post here. At the end I've also included a large picture of the stamp from a foreign Wikipedia page.
I found the stamp listed here, but I don't know what any of this means...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefm...n_ReichspostAnd I found this, on what I believe is about Duppau, but here it is known as Doupov:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoupovUsing Google Translate, I got this from that page...
Quote:
1930, the city had 1524 inhabitants (1506 German, 18 Czechs). After the expulsion [1] of the German city was abandoned to decay. Since 1955 it belongs to its surroundings at a military training area and was worn down to the ground. In the district today, only two buildings: the chapel of the family grave Zedtwitz and a barn.

