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Germany Experts. SC # 69-78, MI 588-597 SS?

 
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Posted 08/10/2025   3:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stampwolf to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I came across this in a collection I bought and had never seen it before. I'd like opinions on it. Looks to me like it was printed from the original dies. Not listed in Michel or Scott as such. No gum on back and has been previously folded, any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Wolf
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Posted 08/10/2025   3:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like a promotional leaflet that has been torn in two pieces. Here is the 1934 one on Philaseiten.

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Posted 08/10/2025   3:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
On your example it says "price of the sheet." This site suggests "bogen" refers to the item itself, calling something similar for 1933 a "souvenir sheet." I have my doubts about it being a souvenir sheet as we, now, consider a souvenir sheet. But these sheets with reproductions may have been sold as they are.

https://www.pvoller.net/new_stamps/...souvenir.php



And I think this describes your item:


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Prior to the release of the stamps above a promotional leaflet was made available that detailed each of the new stamps. An example of that leaflet can be seen below. The sheet is inscribed "Deutsche Nothilfe - Wohlfahrtsbriefmarken 1935 | Amtliche freimarken zur Frankierung aller Postsendungen" - 'German Charity - Welfare Stamps 1935 | Official postage stamps for franking all postal items'.


(scroll down to the set, below the quoted text is a link to an image. If it does not load, you can click on it and might recognise something.

https://german-philately.com/stamps...5-stamps.php
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Edited by NSK - 08/10/2025 4:14 pm
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Posted 08/11/2025   01:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That 1934 set of "Professions" looks both very modern and really creepy. The designer's Ferdinand Spiegel (1879-1950).

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/5005209

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Posted 08/11/2025   06:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I love to see these types of things. They are what give a collection depth.
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Posted 08/11/2025   07:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Apparently the designer for the OP's 1935 set is Karl Diebitsch, who also designed the black SS uniform and daggers. The Fraktur font used in these sheets was banned in 1941 and replaced by what the Nazis called 'normal script' (according to Wikipedia, fonts like Antiqua).

Also banned at the same time was Sütterlin. Some SS cuff titles are written in this script- are there any stamps using it?

(ed:minor copyed)
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Edited by Flightle_Bee - 08/11/2025 07:36 am
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