Danzig #147, postal cancel

Item Specifics

Country

Danzig

Catalog Number

147

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Used

Stamp Format

Single

Year of Issue

1923

Item Description

The stamp in this listing is a 5 million mark on 10,000 mark definitive issued for use in the Free City of Danzig. The underlying stamp is a Danzig definitive issued earlier in the hyperinflation period, whose value was no longer adequate to pay postage rates. Listed in Scott as Danzig #147, and the cancel is more appropriate to postal use rather than a CTO cancel.

The Free City of Danzig was established as a quasi-independent city-state in Europe 1920 with internal self-government but represented internationally by Poland. Its’ creation was a compromise to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea. But since Danzig had a majority German population, it could not be easily annexed to Poland. One of Hitler’s first acts following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 was to annex Danzig. The incorporation of Danzig into Germany was accomplished so swiftly that Danzig stamps were no longer valid by the end of September. At the end of World War II, Danzig was annexed to Poland, and is now better known by its’ Polish name, Gdansk.

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