Recycled WWII European Military Maps Made Into Envelopes

Here is a cover from Belgium produced from WWII German map

Way cool.

Plus the Latvia stamps issued on the back of WW I maps. So many old German maps laying around they used them to printed stamps and wrap fish.

Been a while for this thread, but I just acquired a recycled map cover with a portion of Africa, the first I have seen with a map from there. Mailed January 10, 1947 from APO 755, then in Berlin. Map shows a portion of Togo to the left of the red/green dividing line and Dahomey (now Benin) to the right.




(The flap is separated, thus loose in image 2 and absent from image 3.).

Time to bump this thread with 3 new additions, all are Red Cross envelopes made from obsolete maps and sent in February 1946 by Cpl Norman F Hatzung (April 10, 1912 to February 21, 1983), serial number 35576064, to his mother Mabelle F. Hatzung in Kokomo, Indiana.

Cover A: Mailed February 16, 1946, with a generic military postmark and return address from APO 206 (Munich, Germany). The map is a German map and overprinted "CANCELLED" in blue in English and shows a portion of the Canal de Lucon just south of Lucon, France, near the Atlantic coast and south of Nantes. This cover the net are the first two I have seen recycling German maps.




Cover B: Mailed February 20, 1946, with a postmark from APO 403 and a return address from APO 206 (both Munich, Germany). The map is a German map and overprinted "CANCELLED" in blue in English and shows the town of Plougonver, France about 60 miles east of Brest. The top flap has become separated due to slitting it open.




Cover C: Mailed February 28, 1946, with both postmark and return address from APO 206 (Munich, Germany), although Hatzung is now assigned to a different unit. The map is an Allied map showing Janville, France, about 20 miles north of Orleans, and SSW of Paris. This envelope shows the identical map portion and sender as cover #2 in the initial post on the first page.