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This is an overview of the postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...
s and postal history
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of the Free City of Danzig .
Danzig, now Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
, is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It was the Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (german: Freie Stadt Danzig; pl, Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; csb, Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a city-state under the protection of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gda ...
with its own stamps from 1920 until 1939.
First stamps
The first stamps of Danzig wereoverprint
An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage or revenue stamp, postal stationery, banknote or ticket after it has been printed. Post offices most often use overprints for internal administrative pur ...
ed German stamps issued on 14 June 1920. The first stamps of the Danzig Free State
The Free City of Danzig (german: Freie Stadt Danzig; pl, Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; csb, Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a city-state under the protection of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gd ...
appeared in January 1921 and continued in use until the outbreak of World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
in 1939.Sandafayre Stamp Atlas. Retrieved 21 August 2011. At that time the Free City was annexed by
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
.
Polish post office
A Polish Post
Poczta Polska ( lit. ''Polish Post'') is the state postal administration of Poland, initially founded in 1558. It is the largest mail-handling company in the country, which additionally provides courier, banking, insurance and logistics servi ...
Office operated in the harbour of Danzig (see Polish Post Office in Danzig
The Polish Post Office (''Poczta Polska'') in the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) was created in 1920 and operated until the German invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II.
History
The post was established in Danzig (Gdańsk) ...
). This used Polish stamps overprinted PORT GDANSK.
See also
*Postage stamps and postal history of Germany
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Germany and philately, philatelically related areas. The main modern providers of service were the Reichspost (1871–1945), the Deutsche Post under Allied control (1945–1949), the De ...
*Postage stamps and postal history of Poland
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded in 1558 and Postmark, postal markings were first introduced in 1764. The three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795 saw the independent nation of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polan ...
References
Further reading
* Erler, Martin. ''Catalogue of the Adhesive Revenue Stamps of Germany, Vol. V, Danzig, Memel, Oberschlesien''. Icking, Germany: ORA-Verlag, 1995. . * Jank, Janusz. ''Działalność usługowa poczty polskiej w wolnym mieście Gdańsku w latach 1920-1939 = The Polish postal service in the Free City of Danzig between 1920-1939''. Gdansk: Dyrekcja Okręgu Poczty, 1999 143p. * Klien, U. E. ''Alte Marken in neuem Licht: Ein Beitrag zur Danzig-Philatelie''. Siegen: The Author, 1987 25p. * Rittmeister, Werner. ''Danzig, Sonder- und Werbestempel, 1904-1945''. Hamburg: The Author, 1987 48p. * Weise, Karl Christian. ''Danzig, Geschichte und Philatelie''. Straubenhardt: The Author, 48p. * Wolff, Klaus. ''Danzig Stempelkatalog''. Berlin: K. Wolff, 1993-2005External links
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