Lot# 1132 - Auction 265-273
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Lot# : 1132 Denmark
1944: "Feldpost / Danish Legion" Booklet with blank red covers complete, containing panes of four of +25 ö. green, +50 ö. blue and +1 kr. red, fresh and very fine, a very rare Booklet. The Booklet was a propaganda tool believed to have been encouraged and organised by Christian Frederik von Schalburg, a Danish voulunteer in the Winter War between Finland against Russia (1938/39) who later became a member of the Waffen SS, serving with the 5th SS Division Wiking. He was killed during Operation Barbarossa in the Demyansk pocket in June 1942.Starting bid : 1,500.00 CHFHammer price : 2,300.00 CHF