An Early German Empire's FDC? Flag Cancel?

Looks nice, but I am not sure what has been a real usage of this envelope? Looks like a FDC, but the date is not the right one. Possibly some official stuff or commemoration of some event?

Looks like a machine cancel.

Is that a flag of the state of Berlin or the German Post Office? It's not the German flag!

Hello Smauggie and Warrehouse. Surely, it is not a flag of the German Empire, and most probably not of the Berlin.

Horn in design suggests that it could be connected with the German Post Office. It is a machine cancel, indeed.

Possibly it has been sent to the local Postmaster, because a very short line under the name doesn't look like an address.

"Golden Eagle" on the upper left side looks like the Coat of Arms of the German Empire from that time.

D.R.G.M. means "Deutsche Reich Gebrauchs Muster", which translated means something like "German Empire Patent no." and the number.

Maybe it is just a fancy cover with a usual machine cancel from that time :)

FLAGGENSTEMPEL - that is the German term for the flag cancel. Here is a similar example, found on internet:



http://www.phila-studio.de/ebay/70-...3/thumb.html



http://www.briefmarken-museum.de/ht...stempel.html

The envelope is privately produced, so I don't have any detailed info on it.

As stated above, the cancel is a machine cancel, and more specifically, a flaggenstempel (flag cancel). The machine was manufactured by Columbia, and this particular cancel was in use from approximately 14 Oct 1901-22 Jun 1903.

The flag is the Imperial Post Office Flag that was in use at the time.

PostmasterGS, thank you very much once again, for the great info you are providing to us.

Best regards from Croatia,

Filip