Alpenvorland-Adria

by jrdorman | Apr 16, 2020 | Alpenvorland-Adria, Stamp Pages

These stamps were allegedly in a shipment destined for Alpenvorland-Adria when they were nearly destroyed in a bombing raid on the Trieste railway station, and the sheets salvaged from Trieste were the only surviving copies.

Alpenvorland-Adria

by jrdorman | Apr 16, 2020 | Album Pages, Alpenvorland-Adria

Shown below are the stamps of the GermanStamps.net Collection on the physical album pages.

Alpenvorland-Adria

by jrdorman | Apr 16, 2020 | Alpenvorland-Adria, IA Page

After World War II, a set of stamps appeared which, as the story went, were printed for use by the civilian postal system in combined Alpenvorland-Adria (a combined district which apparently never actually existed).