Germany
The German issue is the largest series. The oldest series were titled 'Die Deutsche Ortswappen', but this title doid not appear on the albums itself. The series consisted of the following albums:
- Die Wappen des Königsreichs Preussen, Provinz Ostpreussen (3 reprints)
- idem, Provinz Westpreussen (2 reprints)
- idem, Provinz Brandenburg (1 reprint)
- Die Wappen des Königsreichs Bayern, Ober-und Niederbayern (1 reprint)
- Die Wappen des Königsreichs Preussen, Provinz Pommern
- idem, Provinz Posen
The 7th album for Silezia was never issued, the stamps were partially issued.
The old series consisted of 703 images and some variations
Author was Prof. Otto Hupp.
The new (second) series was published as Deutsche Ortswappen (Neue Reihe) between 1927 and 1938. There are several differences as compared with the old series issued between 1913 and 1918.
The albums were issued as loose sheets, which could be bound in either 10 small albums, or in four large albums. Each page contained 9 arms. The content of the 10 albums was described, still people often filled the albums at random or by state, which means that each album may contain different pages.
The four large albums were not numbered and could be used at will.
The arms were published by province/state, but the images of the different provinces were not issued at the same time, some parts were issued years after the first half of the series.
The official number of images was 2811, but including variations around 3010 stamps are known.
For the content of the albums see here.
Read more about this topic: Coffee Hag Albums
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