I'm glad you like them, John. These were issued in 1926 and were almost private labels. There's a good Linn's article on the net that you can search for, but the skinny is that they were commissioned and printed for Aero Expresso Italiano, a company which opened an air mall route Brindisi-Athens-Rhodes-Constantinople. An Italian quality book printer did the printing, no government agency, and they do resemble art nouveau style posters or book plates.
Scott at first would not accept them, but it transpired that Greece had submitted the design to the UPU, and they became "real" stamps in 1929.
I was going to post some interesting ones until I saw the "philatelic" adjective before eye candy. Oh well, your loss. I'll find something more appropriate.
"We died for you. And you would betray us?" Well. As much as I despise tyranny and its very personification, I do embrace freedom of speech and the press more. Nice little set of cards, but like Scott I really like that rocket cover.
I have a post card almost identical in style ( Irwin Rommel) to the Wolfgram postcard. Many of those posted auto graphs and were popular. I believe the Rommel autograph is a facsimile. I do have many authentic postcards ( the Reich put out LOTS of postcards) as they were seen as excellent forms of propaganda. Hitler personally authorized many images of himself because he made money from royalties selling his images. On postage stamps, he personally collected a royalty for his image, thus with each birthday, he had another portrait stamp created. He was a very wealthy man when he died, but as we all know, he was a wicked, horrible man. I can only stand his image for a minute or so, especially when I have seen SO many images of the horrors he promulgated on the world.
The difficulty of such memories is, they are still important. I don't like the current "cancel culture". It hides the past like burring one's head in the sand. The horrible part of history is, it's sometimes horrible. But we should still look at it, as a reminder of what such paths bring.
For MANY years I have wondered what the postcard sender was saying because my German translation ap does not recognize the handwritten script. Anyone fluent in German, can you understand what it being said? This would answer a question I've pondered for years. Thank you in advance.
I am a Southerner. Know thy history, know my history, or doom yourself to the sins you accuse me of.
It is late and we've had a civil discussion about difficult things. I'm slowly getting better after a bad drug reaction. Tomorrow I'll get some interesting things up, and let's all get back to stamps.
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Scott at first would not accept them, but it transpired that Greece had submitted the design to the UPU, and they became "real" stamps in 1929.
https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/2014/january/the-first-greek-airmails-defied-conventions-of-des.html
By the by: Are there other “Cheers” fans here who can’t help but read “the Portuguese explorer” name as Ferdinand Majellybelly? LOL
Was ist das?
'We died for you!
And you want to betray us?'
General Kurt Wolfgram. Said to be signed by him. I dunno. Anyway enough of such reminders. Thanks for putting up with them
I do have many authentic postcards ( the Reich put out LOTS of postcards) as they were seen as excellent forms of propaganda. Hitler personally authorized many images of himself because he made money from royalties selling his images. On postage stamps, he personally collected a royalty for his image, thus with each birthday, he had another portrait stamp created. He was a very wealthy man when he died, but as we all know, he was a wicked, horrible man. I can only stand his image for a minute or so, especially when I have seen SO many images of the horrors he promulgated on the world.
It is late and we've had a civil discussion about difficult things. I'm slowly getting better after a bad drug reaction. Tomorrow I'll get some interesting things up, and let's all get back to stamps.