How Do Others Handle Danzig?

My collection is divided by continents, then countries, with year brackets. I was wondering how others address Danzig. Is it usually treated as a part of Germany (such as Bavaria), or as a stand alone country (albeit for a short period), or as part of Poland, or maybe some other way? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Jim

Jim: I think people will take a different approach. As you note, there are several options for handling Danzig. As I've been re-organizing my worldwide Scott Internationals, parts I to V, I've filed Danzig with Poland.

My Danzig collection is on Steiner pages in its own album that I keep with my Germany albums.

Dan

I currently keep Danzig with Germany along with Saar and the plebiscites. I used to keep it in a Baltic stockbook that covered the area from Danzig to Finland.

I try to arrange my stamps geographically and keep Danzig, the Polish Post in Danzig and Allenstein etc. after Poland and before Lithuania.

I have recycled a 1 1/2" Minkus binder to group Danzig and other post-WWI Germany areas. It is very convenient for adding pages, and I like to make pencil notes about technical aspects and varieties.

I view it as a separate entity and have a separate album for it, while at the same time I consider it part of my German collection.

Does that even make sense?

Thanks for the input on this. Jim

I keep Danzig with Poland.

I collect Danzig as part of my Germany collection as during its stamp-issuing history, it was culturally German and was formerly a part of the German Reich. I house it (on Steiner pages) in the same binder with Memel, Upper Silesia, Allenstein, Shleswig and Marienwerder, all of which were German areas that were separated from Germany for some duration during the inter-war period. Saar is another such area but I have it in its own binder.

Danzig is one of my favorite German areas to collect. All but a few of the stamps are affordable and available and I generally find the stamps interesting and well designed. Since it was part of the German sphere economically as well, it also went though hyper-inflation just like Germany. And the first shots of World War II in Europe were fired in Danzig, so it's interesting to own a piece of that history as well. I just have 41 Danzig stamps left on my want list, and all but a dozen or so won't be too difficult to fill.

I put country collections pretty haphazardly in binders (when a binder gets full I just start another), but on my website I let the viewer choose whether collections are grouped alphabetically, by geographic region or by political affiliations. Danzig would be in the Ds, Europe and German influenced, I think.

I'm with ArtfulHinger. Memel and Danzig are geographically with Baltic States in my albums. Mine go north to south, starting at Ingermanland and Eastern Karelia, through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Central Lithuania, Memel, Lithuanian Occupation of Memel and finally Danzig. If I collected Germany then I would certainly bundle it together with the Fatherland.