Is There A Listing Of Overprints On WWI Era German Stamps?

Is there a listing of the overprints that I'm finding on WWi German (Scott type A22 - #s 96-101)? Some are fairly obvious as to where they belong, others are a mystery to me.

Thank you!
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Here are the major ones. If you have anything you can't ID, just post it and I'll take a look.

Belgium



Communications Area West



Postal Area East



Libau



Poland



Romania



9th Army

Thanks, "Bolen" is Poland........... I should have guessed that.
I've got a "Barfdjan" or "Warfdjan" or something like that. Any ideas?
I've tried a pic but its just too blurry.

My apologies.......... they are from Poland as well.

THANK YOU !!

The word you were having trouble with is Warschau, the German version of Warsaw. The font is a little tough to decipher if you're not used to it.

Postmaster is correct. It can be a pain. The font is called Fraktur. Here is a link to a chart of Fraktur letters. It also includes comparisons of Fraktur letters that can be easily confused.

http://www.library.yale.edu/catalog.../fraktur.htm

Hope this helps!
Dan

Postmaster, not to contradict you, but to learn, Poland as a nation didn`t exist at this time. The German use of Bolen comes from the village name?

They're from after WWI (circa 1919-21 or so), but some issues of Danzig, Saar, Memel, Marienwerder and Allenstein are also overprints of this type.

Poland didn't exist as a nation, but the area was still referred to as Poland at the time. The overprint on that first Poland series is "Russisch Polen", or Russian Poland.

Thank you, PM!

Libau is the current city of Liepaja in Latvia. Probably the majority of Libau overprints are real stamps, but fake overprints.

Further to Artful's comment, some rather expensive overprints here

http://www.warwickandwarwick.com/au...logue/135220

and, a lot more expensive, but Colonies, rather than WWI, here

http://www.warwickandwarwick.com/au...logue/135221

@KGB, the overprint in fact doesn't say Bolen but Polen, which is German for Poland. Why anyone would ever want that weird font is beyond me.

Thank you, Tinus. I was recently researching WWI-era Germany and the gothic font of the primary texts drove me crazy!

KGB,

I know what you mean about the Fraktur. I was largely unfamiliar with it until I purchased an album containing cigarette cards from the German colonial period, and the entire album was written in Fraktur.

I set about translating the captions under all the cards, and by about #15, I was able to decipher most of the letters.



Of the older Germans scripts, it's actually the easiest. I run into a lot of materials written in Kurrent and Sütterlin, and they're much tougher. I had several postcards written in Kurrent that I wanted translated, and after going through about half a dozen native German speakers, the only way to get it done was for a guy to send it to his grandmother who was old enough to read it.

To me, though, Sütterlin is impenetrable. The words look like nothing but mmmmmmmmmmm.

This is a German sample.



And this is in English, but using the Sütterlin font.


This is written in English

Mein Gott!

For what it's worth: http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Eng...utterlin.htm