Envelope

Object | Accession Number: 1997.88.5

Overview

Date: postmark: 1942
Geography: postmark: Portugal
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor

Language: German
Classification: Information Forms
Category: Correspondence
Object Type: Envelopes (Stationery) (lcsh)
Physical Description: blue and white airmail envelope; recto: left edge bears brown adhesive paper strip bearing image of Nazi German National Symbol and text in blue ink, "GEOEFFNET/(d)/O[F?]W"; upper left quadrant, handwritten inscription in black ink, "19"; Upper left corner, center and lower right corner, hand-written inscriptions in blue ink; upper right corner, two adhesive postal stamps and two illegible black ink cancellation stamps; lower left quadrant, illegible green ink stamp and red ink stamp, "4125"; lower right quadrant, two blue ink stamps, "40" and "19" and red ink stamp, "K"; verso: upper edge, handwritten inscription in blue ink; lower left corner, blue ink stamp, "5364"; right side, black ink cancellation stamp.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, adhesive, graphite pencil
Inscription: recto: lower left corner, in pencil, "Neutral 1942"

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The envelope was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by an anonymous donor.