MiNr. 75

Hye Hornet785 (with the great avatar),

at first lets have a look on the appropriate porto-period from 1919-10-01 till 1920-06-05. Here we find 20 Pf as rate for the standart letter till 20 gramm. Your letter is correctly franked with 20 Pf.

Approching the end of the bavarian post-seignorage it was advisable to deplete surplus old(er) stamp-material as proven with no. 75.

You`ll find more examples of such so-called "deplete-frankings", in particular on parcel-cards too. It`s really no fake, just absolutely authentic.

Best regrads !

Tim

Hello Sylvain,

just take a look on the stamp to the right of no. 75. What we see is one stamp of the so called "bavaria-farewell-issue", no. 150. This issue was published between 1920-02-14 and 1920-03-30. The bavarian post-seignorage officially ended on 1920-04-01.

Because of the fact that the german Reichspost primarily was not able to deliver a sufficient quantity of stamps the validity of the bavarian stamps was officially extended till 1920-06-30. Late-usages of bavarian stamps are proven mostly till september / october 1920.

In so far the usage of the farewell-issue was limited in a short period of months and especially letters with correct rated frankings of the bavarain-farewell-issue - I am really in love with - are very very nice material and $4.00 for yours is a very good price. You`ve made absolutely no mistake with that !

Best regards !

Tim