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German Colonies and Post Offices Abroad

Our 108th Specialized Auction (17th October) is now on-line.

Including: some more outstanding items from the late Jürgen Kessing's collection "Expeditions in the German Colonies"

as well as interesting material from all colonial areas.

All lots are illustrated on our internet site.

The following link gives you access to our online catalogue:
https://petervogenbeck.de/

 

Germany came late to the 'Scramble for Africa' and elsewhere. Towards the end of the 19th Century, it began to rival Great Britain in its global colonial and imperial ambition. Defeat in the First World War and the loss of its colonies was one of the contributing causes of the Second World War, indeed modern historians increasingly see the two wars as one. Despite the relatively short period of German colonial philately and postal history, a surprising quantity of wonderfully varying material exists. Peter Vogenbeck's auction house offers much excellent material from the German colonial era. He lived for some long time in South Africa where he and his wife are fondly remembered  by collectors.