Hamburg #25

I came across this the other day and I'm confused by the black letters printed across the stamp. At first I thought it might be cut from a post card but the paper is too thin. Any ideas?

Possibly newpaper usage? The listings all show this as either perfed or rouletted.
Google translates couvert as cover, so perhaps this was cut from a newspaper wrapping.

That looks like a cutout from an envelope. Reprints/forgeries exist.

Some of the German states commonly did this with their postal stationery. Ffejy, you will notice on your scan the words 'einen halben' which is literally translated 'one and a half' - which is the denomination on your cut square. This would be for one and a half Schillings. I have scanned a postal stationery item from Hannover denominated one Groshen and it too is overprinted accordingly with the wording 'ein Groschen" for one Groschen. I also scanned a portion of the back of this stionery cover with the same inscriptions.

i think this was done so that there was no confusion of the value of the stationery printings at the time (?)

Hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

I think that clears up my question. Thanks to all.

Just a clarification on the translation: "ein u. einen halben" is short for "ein und einen halben"
which means "one and a half".