Page 57 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1923: Adolph Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison; whooping cough vaccine developed;

Time magazine first published; Harlem's Cotton Club opens; astronaut Alan Shepard born.

At the RPSL: Bacon resigns; H.M. King George V entertains hundreds of Fellows at

Buckingham Palace; Sweden's 3sk. Banco Yellow displayed (It will be shown again in 2013).

RPSL Presidents were E. D. Bacon & T.W. Hall. Patron H.M . King George V. Membership 407.

GERMANY - OFFICIAL MAIL

WITH MIXED FRANKINGS

From t he collection of Herwig Kussing.

Member since 2013. Lives in South Africa.

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This cover was posted twice by applying a patent address label to the front of a cover that had

already been used. It is a registered official cover with mixed franking, sent on 10th February 1923. It

has the correct postage of 90 marks for a letter up to 20 grams, which is SOm for the letter rate and

40m for registration. Official stamps were used to a value of 89m plus a lm stamp from the definit ive

issue (Mi 187}.