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Monday, April 6, 2020

Germany: Stamps of Bavaria

On 17th March I got four postcards: three from Germany and one from the USA.

One of the cards from Germany deals with the change of designs of Bavarian stamps. Although Bavaria became a part of the German Empire in 1871, it still had the right to issue its own stamps. Other special rights of Bavaria within the German Empire include its own railway, military and embassies. These rights expired just in 1919 after the German Revolution and due to a treaty on the 1st April 1920 the Bavarian postal system became part of the Germany-wide postal system against a compensation, which however was never paid but used for reparations.
I bought this card in my home town.


Stamp:
Cornflower (issued 01-07-2019)
with a special postmark about the centenary of Bavaria's last stamp issue


As the card above is quite small and as I feared that it might thus be lost or damaged during its journey, I also got the postmark on a cover.


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