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Dear Steve,
In the comprehensive book 'The postal history of the Nuremberg rallies" by John Rawlings & Michael Passmore there is no specific mention of out-of-date postage stamps having been accepted for postage at any of the rally temporary post offices. It is clear, however, from the book that the commemorative handstamps were intended as souvenir handstamps and as such would have been applied by favour on many different items. Unless there is clear evidence on the back of the cover that it actually travelled through the post on or shortly after 14.9.1936 then I would view it with caution as to whether it was genuinely postally used. Furthermore the '12 Apr.19..' datestamp looks like an addressee's office arrival datestamp and of course that date (year unclear) doesn't square with the date of the rally.It rather implies that the envelope has been reused wth the stamps stuck over previous ones or the remnants of ones. Besides, a 'confidential' letter addressed by use of an 'addressograph' type machine to a bank in Berlin, and heavily overfranked (6M as against 12Pf!), seems to me an odd kind of postal item to have been posted from a Nuremberg rally of any date.Why not bring the cover to our AGM weekend in Stoke-on-Tremt and ask some of the experienced Third Reich collectors for their opinions.
Best wishes
Giles |
