Danzig, now
Gdańsk, is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It was the
Free City of Danzig with its own stamps from 1920 until 1939.
First stamps
The first stamps of Danzig were
overprinted German stamps issued on 14 June 1920. The first stamps of the
Danzig Free State appeared in January 1921 and continued in use until the outbreak of
World War II in 1939.[1] At that time the Free City was annexed by
Nazi Germany.
^Danzig. Sandafayre Stamp Atlas. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
Further reading
Erler, Martin. Catalogue of the Adhesive Revenue Stamps of Germany, Vol. V, Danzig, Memel, Oberschlesien. Icking, Germany: ORA-Verlag, 1995.
OCLC75585447.
Jank, Janusz. Działalność usługowa poczty polskiej w wolnym mieście Gdańsku w latach 1920-1939 = The Polish postal service in the Free City of Danzig between 1920-1939. Gdansk: Dyrekcja Okręgu Poczty, 1999
ISBN8387642150 143p.
Klien, U. E. Alte Marken in neuem Licht: Ein Beitrag zur Danzig-Philatelie. Siegen: The Author, 1987 25p.
Rittmeister, Werner. Danzig, Sonder- und Werbestempel, 1904-1945. Hamburg: The Author, 1987 48p.
Weise, Karl Christian. Danzig, Geschichte und Philatelie. Straubenhardt: The Author, 48p.
Wolff, Klaus. Danzig Stempelkatalog. Berlin: K. Wolff, 1993-2005