On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:06:43 GMT, Bob Ingraham
wrote:

Can anyone please tell me what the 1940 rate would be for an airmail letter,
weighing 3.5 grams, mailed from Germany to Argentina? A cover I have is
franked with one 25m commemorative stamp (Scott #497) and two Hindenburg
definitives of 100m and 50m.

Bob - do you mean 100 pf and 50 pf? Hindenburg, afaik, was not on a
"Mark" stamp.

Thanks for the lesson in currencies of the past! I meant "mark," but I was
obviously wrong. Pfennig it is. Deutschmarks weren't apparently used before
1948.

(Since the definitives are on cover, I can't be sure whether they are the
1933 issue or the 1933-36 issue, which was watermarked with a swastika. Not
that this has anything to do with my question, although it would be
interesting to know. The cover was mailed by a Jew from Krefeld in 1940.)

Interesting, at that point in history... v

Very interesting indeed, and the subject of a new web page I am working on.
Germany in 1940 was not a good place to be Jewish! And this cover is
particularly interesting because it is an "Israel" cover that has nothing to
do with Israel the nation. Stay tuned.

Bob

Tracy Barber