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I'm replying to Roger Hibberd's second query, the unrecorded Reichspost stamp with Dar-es-Salaam cancel.
There are several possible explanations:-
(1) it simply went unnoticed or unchallenged (possibly among other, GEA, stamps) at the whim (or laziness) of a particular postal official;
(2) it came from an item of mail posted but not postmarked at sea which was then postmarked on arrival;
(3) it had been attached to the reply half of a reply-paid postcard sent from Germany;
(4) sometimes, contrary to regs, even when a stamp was disallowed and the item of mail charged postage due, the offending stamp was nevertheless potmarked.
I have German stamps cancelled by Czech, Italian, French, British postmarks -- no significance necessarily attaches to this beyond the circumstances just outlined. |
