Overview
- Date
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postmark:
1945 March 19
- Geography
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postmark:
Aachen (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Postage stamps
- Object Type
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Postage stamps--Germany (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Brown paper; recto: upper center, black ink stamp, "V/FIRST DAY OF ISSUE/ALLIED OCCUPATION OF GERMANY/V"; across center, four colored adhesive stamps (from left: green, yellow, orange, purple), "5/AM POST/PFENNIG/M/DEUTSCHLAND" and four black ink cancellation stamps, "AACHEN/19.3.45. 89/I"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 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:
- 2024-10-03 11:30:11
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn27764
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