tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post4899927162770236839..comments2024-03-23T04:12:08.762-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: MemelJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-76655610645225626652014-05-20T06:48:38.664-07:002014-05-20T06:48:38.664-07:00Keijo-
I recall reading your excellent post on th...Keijo-<br /><br />I recall reading your excellent post on the forgeries, and thanks for the link. Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-78462028690395215322014-05-19T23:42:25.498-07:002014-05-19T23:42:25.498-07:00And here's what the forgeries look like: http:...And here's what the forgeries look like: <a href="http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/klaipeda-forgeries.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/klaipeda-forgeries.php</a> <br /><br />-k-keijohttp://www.stampcollectingblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-53330759257986478482014-05-19T17:37:01.504-07:002014-05-19T17:37:01.504-07:00The genuines are indeed Perf 11- I changed the pos...The genuines are indeed Perf 11- I changed the post. Thanks again!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-26502096726854738422014-05-19T06:25:11.037-07:002014-05-19T06:25:11.037-07:00If that is the case, then I obviously switched the...If that is the case, then I obviously switched the information in Varro Tyler. I don't have my Tyler handy as we are at our beach cabin, but I will change the information after checking. Thanks!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-63147677320247520002014-05-19T04:22:34.637-07:002014-05-19T04:22:34.637-07:00Are you sure you have the perfs for the fakes and ...Are you sure you have the perfs for the fakes and the genuine stamps the right way round? Varro Tyler notes the fakes as p11 1/2 and Michel and Gibbons note the genuine stamps as p11Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-22215565607978516192013-12-30T11:17:21.220-08:002013-12-30T11:17:21.220-08:00Thanks for the update- I know Germany today is qui...Thanks for the update- I know Germany today is quite careful to not glorify the nationalistic and fascist past.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-10024391833138865182013-12-30T09:57:31.802-08:002013-12-30T09:57:31.802-08:00I should add that in today's Bundesrepublik on...I should add that in today's Bundesrepublik only the third stanza about unity, justice, freedom, brotherhood and all sorts of good stuff, not this one, is used, and that, even in 1922, the President of the republic, Friedrich Ebert (whom we all know so well from German stamps) thought that only the third stanza ought to be used. And officially the song is known as the Song of Germany or Deutschlandlied or Lied der Deutschen, not "Deutschland ueber Alles".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-80572904104278130862013-12-25T08:41:13.586-08:002013-12-25T08:41:13.586-08:00Great Information!Great Information!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-89038641119810853322013-12-25T08:06:04.031-08:002013-12-25T08:06:04.031-08:00The Memel River figures in the German national ant...The Memel River figures in the German national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Alles" as one of the limits of the empire: "Von der Maas bis an die Memel, von der Etsch bis an den Belt."<br /><br />The Maas (Meuse in French, located in Benelux, Flemish-speaking duchy of Limburg) represents German claims in the West, the old heartland of the Carolingian empire. The Etsch River (Adige in Italian) in South Tirol marks the southern limits of Great-German (Grossdeutsche) nationalist aspirations in the 1840s when August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics to a Hayden melodyl. The Memel represents the easternmost limits of East Prussia and the [Little] Belt River (Lillebaelt) represents the northernmost claims, to Danish/German Schleswig.<br /><br />The hymn was adopted in 1922, just at the time that these marginal territories were being disputed in the wake of the German loss of World War I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com