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February 13th, 2008, 03:50 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
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Nice!!!!!
Skipper, FP nr 31966:
(28.4.1940-19.9.1940) Transport-Kolonne der Luftwaffe 24/XII,
(28.2.1941-29.7.1941) gestrichen,
(1.3.1942-7.9.1942) Baustoff-Kolonne (bespannt) 430.
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You mean you recognize these units by heart just by seeing the stamps? Wow!
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
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You mean you recognize these units by heart just by seeing the stamps? Wow!
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February 13th, 2008, 04:55 PM
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Oh I see ! I didn't get it . You are talking about the Felpostletter . 
Sturmkreuz this is excellent news!
Ididn't know this soldier was a Luftwaffe Gefreiter.
Do you know I have a huge archive of this man . The first one has 60 letters dating from 1942 to 44 . I have started posting them for St Valentine's Day because they are mostly love letters from this Gefreiter to his French Fiancée.
You will find them in the Militaria section and the title is Romeo and Juliette (I started this yesterday)
I should get 320 more documents form him next week. Thanks a lot for your help.
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February 13th, 2008, 04:58 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
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Oh I see ! I didn't get it . You are talking about the Felpostletter .
Sturmkreuz this is excellent news!
Ididn't know this soldier was a Luftwaffe Gefreiter.
Do you know I have a huge archive of this man . The first one has 60 letters dating from 1942 to 44 . I have started posting them for St Valentine's Day because they are mostly love letters from this Gefreiter to his French Fiancée.
You will find them in the Militaria section and the title is Romeo and Juliette (I started this yesterday)
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Nice, I think you can read now!
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February 13th, 2008, 05:29 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Do you know the 1943 and 1944 figures and their postions too?
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February 13th, 2008, 05:52 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Do you have full name of person?
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February 13th, 2008, 07:17 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
The letter says Gefreiter Willi Mathhias. FP NUMMER 31966
the sender is HPT gefr. FELLERING . FP 35947
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February 14th, 2008, 10:09 AM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
some more great documents from 1942 and 1943: These are business orders from printers in Berlin (under) and another one based in Metz , Lorraine (above) . Both documents are adressed to a company in DIEDENHOFEN WESTMARK which was the official occupation name of THIONVILLE LORRAINE. The documents mentions that on eitem is not in stock and the printer suges treplacecing it with another one.
Check how most orders were signed at the end.
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February 14th, 2008, 05:32 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
French field post correspondence from the phoney war (dated Feb 1940). Note the handwritten F.M (military mail) stamp and the POSTES AUX ARMEES cancellation 
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
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Here are some very rare Vichy government issues. These stamps were ordered for internal use only. However when they were ready, it was decided that official Government mail did in fact not need postage stamps. The stock was put somewhere in warehouse and never issued. After the war these stamps became embarrassing. They bore a huge FRANCISC which was the symbol of Vichy and linked to collaboration, so it was decided to destroy the entire stock by dumping them in acid.
Fortunately, one of the workers was a collector and managed to hide a few sheets under his clothes every day. The copies with orignal glue are extremely rare. The worker sold the surviving stock to a stamp dealers and this is how they came on the market. Over the years i have managed to get about half of this collection.
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I found your stamps, now i know where you talked about.
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February 20th, 2008, 09:12 AM
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Glad I could help. I will scan the coins for you today and post them in your Hurtgen thread.
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Very good thread! I didn't read over too very much at the start but it has turned into a good one.
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February 20th, 2008, 11:17 AM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Thanks Jeff it's getting almost as good as your avatar competition with Za!
Here is a Felpost letter from VIENNA from 1942.
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February 20th, 2008, 09:31 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Hi Skipper, you have many stamps i've never seen before, thankx for posting them. Oddly enough, my Grandfather (who is pure Norwegian) and shortly before the USA entered the war, collected a few thousand stamps from around the world including many from Germany and some from France-im not sure how many though?
If I can ever get my mitts on this collection, I can see if I can go somewhere to scan them and will have to get someone like Jeff or Erich; to post them here for me.
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February 21st, 2008, 12:39 AM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Great stamps, nice collection! Do you collect other WWII ephemera?
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February 22nd, 2008, 11:33 AM
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Great stamps, nice collection! Do you collect other WWII ephemera?
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Thank you and yes, I have posted several items like archives of German soldiers or coins and bills. If you are interested you can find some of them in the Hurtgen, Romeo and Juliette or Gilze Rijen threads.
Today I have scanned avery rare complete booklet with unused Petian stamps. Every stamp has a little tag with Vichy propaganda on it (National relief fund) .
On the cover you will find adverts for the National Lotery and schooling with an application sheet behind.
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February 22nd, 2008, 01:51 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Great stuff Skipper!!
You have an incredible collection there!!
thanks for sharing!!
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February 22nd, 2008, 02:36 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
The figures shown are the items distributed to the refugees (food, blankets, clothes, meals, furniture, cookers etc...
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February 24th, 2008, 01:53 PM
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Re: Showing my WWII stamp collection
Hello All,
Very nice !
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February 24th, 2008, 04:17 PM
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Thnaks Seb, I will post more this week, but the weather has been so nice that I spent many hours outside today. I have lots more to be scanned.
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