Overview
- Date
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postmark:
1940 October 26
- Geography
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postmark:
Warsaw (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Postage stamps
- Object Type
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Postage stamps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Plain white index card; recto: three adhesive postal stamps, one in green depicting young girl, "12+38/GENERALGOUVERNEMENT"; one in red depicting older woman in shawl, "24+26/GENERALGOUVERNEMENT"; and one in blue depicting man with fur collar, 30+20/GENERALGOUVERNEMENT"; two black ink cancellation stamps bearing image of Nazi German National Symbol, "EIN JAHR GENERALGOUVERNEMENT/WARSCHAU 26.X.40"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The postage stamp cover was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by an anonymous donor.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 08:10:54
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn27757
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