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Unfamiliar Overprint On Germany Of WWII

 
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Posted 11/04/2019   9:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EMaxim to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Can anyone provide info about these stamps? Haven't been able to find the overprint in Scott, Michel or Yvert-Tellier.
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Posted 11/04/2019   9:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
These look like very common stamps with modern fake overprints and very likely fake fieldpost and Graz cancels.
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Posted 11/04/2019   9:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EMaxim to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Makes sense, inasmuch as Michel's Deutschland-Spezial catalogue doesn't mention them. Also the cancellations are suspiciously similar on each.
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Posted 11/04/2019   10:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Emaxim, there would really be no reason for these overprints. When Austria was absorbed into Germany in 1938, Graz became a German city.

The Hitler heads were issued a few years later.

Many similar items have appeared in the last few years. The unscrupulous creators and sellers have been busy.
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Posted 11/04/2019   11:28 pm  Show Profile Check gmot's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add gmot to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bizarrely done fakes, given that the Hitler head overprints were done after the fall of the Nazi regime. These ones have the swastika as part of the overprint - hardly an effective way to "de-nazify" the stamps...
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Further SCF Reading,
https://goscf.com/t/52307
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Posted 11/05/2019   12:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EMaxim to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I had thought—without facts or a shred of evidence—that, in its retreat from the Eastern Front, the German army might have established separate Feldposten along the way. Or that local Nazis might have applied these overprints as a statement of loyalty as the roof fell in on them. But then, in either case, Michel would have said as much. Does anyone know when these fakes began to appear on the market?
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