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Wartime postage stamps, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wallis 4

Scope and Contents

24 postage stamps together with a note initialled M B W which reads ‘I think some of these are wartime stamps from the German occupation of Russia etc - given me by a German officer (A Danst / Dienst?) in 1946 (when I was in BAOR)’. The stamps appear to be from Russia, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, including German stamps overwritten with large sums from the period of wartime inflation.

Dates

  • Creation: 1943

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2015-11-25 12:58:58+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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