21-11-2025, 07:33 PM
(20-11-2025, 01:09 AM)Hugh Wrote: Hi Richard ... Your postcard has a 2Pf indicium and an additional 3Pf adhesive stamp. That's 5Pf in total. After the formation of the German Empire and the subsequent postal unification of the various German States, the domestic postcard rate was 5Pf. This rate was valid from July 1, 1875 to September 30, 1906.
It looks to me like your postcard is a 2Pf postal stationary card issued by Wüttemberg in 1900 (MiNr. DP2 old style, MiNr. P23 in later catalogues). So, it needed an additional 3Pf stamp to bring it up to the required domestic postcard rate.
I can't tell when it was posted from your scan. I can't see the date on the CDS. Have a look at the actual card. My guess is that it will be sometime between 1900 and 1906.
Cheers, Hugh
The date of all the German postcards are 1901-02. The rate on one was 2ph for a short distance? So if this one required 5pf for a post card rate then the sort distance with only 2pf should have required 5 pf should it not to cover the required post card rate? Thanks in advance
