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Postmark dated January 27, 1923.

Test stamp DÜNTSCH BPP.

E. Hahn from Leipzig, Kantstr. 11, turns to the antiquarian bookshop K. Merz in Bern and offers him the 7-volume work "History of sea voyages and discoveries in the southern seas" (Berlin 1774-1788, translated by Friedrich von Schiller, among others) in very good condition for 100,000 marks.

Certainly these 100,000 marks were hardly worth anything due to inflation at the time of the antiquarian's potential answer...

Franked with a 50 mark stamp (246c) and two 20-mark stamps (207 II).

On the text side there is a stamp “Einwandfrei Infla Berlin”, under the 50 mark stamp there is a test stamp “DÜNTSCH BPP”. -- BPP = Association of Philatelic Examiners; Düntsch = Günther Düntsch, inflation auditor from October 1952 to 31. December 1994.


The author is not listed in the Leipzig address book from 1923, but is in the year 1924 (at the address given) as Dr. phil. Erich Hahn.

Format: 8.8x14cm.

On fairly thin paper.

Condition: Card browned, one stamp with corner creases. Please BEAAlso check out the pictures!

Internal note: FM 201025 in folder white Bockum

E. Hahn from Leipzig, Kantstr. 11, turns to the antiquarian bookshop K. Merz in Bern and offers him the 7-volume work "History of sea voyages and discoveries in the southern seas" (Berlin 1774-1788, translated by Friedrich von Schiller, among others) in very good condition for 100,000 marks. Certainly these 100,000 marks were hardly worth anything due to inflation at the time of the antiquarian's potential answer... On the text side there is a stamp “Einwandfrei Infla Berlin”, under the 50 mark stamp there is a test stamp “DÜNTSCH BPP”. -- BPP = Association of Philatelic Examiners; Düntsch = Günther Düntsch, inflation auditor from October 1952 to 31. December 1994. The author is not listed in the Leipzig address book from 1923, but is in the year 1924 (at the address given) as Dr. phil.