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Bidboard # 1852
Lot # 136
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $130.00
Price Realized: $100
Czechoslovakia

WWII Liberation Overprints and Cancels. VF selection of thirteen different "Csl. Posta" overprinted German "Hitlerhead" issues, all tied to individual pieces by May 8th 1945 Teplicev-Sanov Liberation commemorative cancels. Teplice-Sanov is a city in northern Bohemia. The Jewish community of Teplice was one of the largest and most important in Bohemia from the 16th century onward. The rabbi and the majority of the community left in the summer and fall of 1938 due to Czech-German strife and Nazi agitation. A "bittersweet" and historically important WWII provisional liberation group. Estimate