Kaffee Hag albums : Deutsche Ortswappen
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Album information :
- Issued by : Kaffee Hag, Bremen, Germany
- Date of issue : 1913-1939
- Number of stamps/cards : >3500 in two series
- Image variants : Over 150 variations in image, text or both
Company
For information on the company, see the overview of Coffee Hag albums.
Albums
The history of the German issues of the Kaffee Hag albums is complicated, due to two wars and the changes in the political situation in Germany.
Between 1913 and 1939 two series of albums have been issued.
The first series was started in 1913 and not finished due the First World War. In 1927 a second series was started, which was also not finished, due to the Second World War.
Although both series supposedly would contain around 3000 stamps, only 703 and around 2820 were actually published (not counting the numerous reprints and variations).
Old series 1913-1918
The first series was issued between 1913 and 1916 as Die Deutsche Ortswappen, but this name does not appear on the albums itself. The albums were issued as albums, not as loose pages as in the second series. Each album dealt with one or more Prussian provinces or other States. The albums were reprinted several times, there were 6 albums and 12 different editions:
The following albums were printed:
1: Ostpreussen
Issued 1913, reprinted and revised in 1913, 1914 and 1916, and printed in 10, 18, 11 and 4 thousand copies respectively.
Contains numbers 1-69 with coats of arms of Ostpreussen (now mainly Poland and Russia).
The first edition contains three additional texts; one preface by the Brücke association, one about the Brücke and Kaffee Hag and one with 5 press references to the arms. The Brücke was an organisation that, among other things, promoted the use of advertising and the owner of the Kaffee Hag Company (Roselius) was one of the first to issue stamps in the uniform size system promoted by Die Brücke.
The second edition only contains a text about advertising as a means to spread culture as well as 4 press references.
The third and fourth editions contain three texts by Prof. Hupp on heraldry, general remarks and the history of the arms of Ostpreussen. The sequence of the images in these last editions has also changed; in the first two editions the towns in Regierungsbezirk (district) Allenstein were placed among the two other districts, in the third edition the district was placed after the other two districts.
2:Westpreussen
Issued 1913, reprinted 1915, with 10.000 copies in each edition
Contains numbers 70-126 and 282 after number 82.
The first edition has three texts; one on the stamps of Kaffee Hag, and two about different aspects of coffee.
The second edition has the additional stamp and two texts from Prof. Hupp, on the sources of the arms and on the history of the arms of Westpreussen.