| Lot #5182 GERMANY Allied Occupation Issues 1945-49 "Restoration of Civil Mail Service in Allied Occupied Germany", large, all-encompassing exhibit of 270+ covers or cards, extensively described on 144 pages, starting with forerunners (two Third Reich covers serviced by Allied Military Post Office), Soviet Zone, with "Pochta" stamp on cover from Dresden to Meissen, "Postage Paid in Cash" covers and cards, Soviet Provisional Issues for Saxony, Hitler stamps blacked out and used on covers and cards from Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Weissbach and Auerswalde. Berlin-Brandenburg issues, East Saxony Numerals and Reconstruction Semi-Postals, both philatelic and commercial mail, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern locals, Saxony Land Reform and Reconstruction Issues, Numerals, "People's" Solidarity stamps, West Saxony Pictorials, Leipzig Fair Presentation sheet with folder, Thuringia Pictorials, Weimar National Theater souvenir sheets, extensive selection of AMG issues on cover, both British and German printings, censored mail, uses from Berlin, Postal Rates, mixed franking combinations with Allied Control Commission issues, perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets on registered covers, various definitives, high value frankings, French Zone General Issues, Baden, Rhineland, Wurttemberg, extensive Bizone Currency Reform overprints, complete set of 52 and unissued 1m-5m values, used (with handstamped guarantee marks, but would have to be re-expertized), variety of combination covers, studies of postal rates, Buildings issues, "Help Berlin" and other Commemoratives, Berlin overprints and Commemoratives on various covers (many addressed to Alfred Kugel), Saar with many better stamps on cover, Soviet Currency Reform handstamped overprints on cover, Goethe souvenir sheet on Registered cover, definitives series and finally the first Bundestag set on stationery lettersheet. A splendid presentation, wealth of material, many rare and seldom offered items included, excellent value
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