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Have not thought about the subject of NSDAP or any other party contribution stamps for many years, Jim I think this is a difficult area to research, but I think it can be done, although perhaps slowly and expensively.
As you may know, the NSDAP issued organizational handbooks several times. One of these might help, but I very much doubt it. Almost surely the answer is somewhere in the Nazi Party archives now held by the Hoover Library at Stanford University, however.
Microfilm copies of the archives were (and probably are) for sale. There was a paperbound guide to the archives issued at one point. I think diligent study of the guide might lead you to the appropriate microfilm files to purchase. The NSDAP issued a multi-volume set of regulations about 1942-1943, but, again, I do not think that set will help you. It might, though. I really think the Hoover Library is the best source of information.
It seems to me that Norton and Erler issued a catalog of NSDAP contribution stamps, but I may well be mistakened. In any case, you almost surely have a copy. If they covered the topic, they probably just listed the stamps.
If you want precise citations to the books mentioned, let me know. Perhaps your library could borrow the NSDAP archival guide and the rolls of microfilm. Of course, it is possible that the Hoover Library has the archives on CD ROM now.
Sorry I cannot be of more assistance, but it has really been more than thirty years since I thought about these matters.
Best wishes, Ben
Benjamin R. Beede (brbeede@rci.rutgers.edu)
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