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Hello Roberto – the short answer to your question is that handstamped postmarks were not used at Danzig Post Office until 1817 when the two-line DANZIG/ date (without year) type of mark was introduced.
Prior to that, from 1793, when Danzig was taken by Prussia as part of the second partition of Poland, foreign letters such as the numerous ones to Bordeaux, were usually endorsed en route with a handwritten ‘de Dantzig’, ‘a Danzig’ or just ‘D’ in red ink.
Prior to 1793 there were usually no special postal marks of origin used in Danzig. The sender, however, often gave their address details, as did the private forwarding agent if used (such as on this interesting early 1778 letter privately forwarded at least from Hamburg and possibly taken by a ship’s captain from Danzig to Hamburg). Schroder and Schuyler particularly, usually usefully added a note of the origin and the date of reply on the back of the folded letter.
Best wishes
Giles |
