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Stamp collection of Richard Schröter

Lost Art-ID
622748
Name
Stamp collection of Richard Schröter
Description

9 stamp albums with the following contents:

Volume 1: Old Germany (except Brunswick No. 13, 14, 15 and 18B) with many additional stamps, larger units and specialities;

Volume 2: German Colonies, all areas, complete with various covers, varieties etc.;

Volume 3: German Empire; a) cancelled 1872- 1902: complete, partly multiple

mint: corner margin block of four (top) from b) No. 83 - 263 in all occurring printing variants, also includes Vineta Provisional on strip, no special stamps

Volume 4: German Reich; no. 264 - 667 as 3b, plus whole sheets of OPD prints specialised, no special stamps

Volume 5: German Reich: all special stamps in mint corner margin blocks of four, as well as souvenir sheets and miniature sheets

Volume 6: German Reich: all official and airmail stamps, mint corner margin blocks of four, all stamp booklet sheets, from 1933 entire stamp booklets, se-tenants and reverse prints from booklet sheets

Volume 7: German occupations: Belgium, Russia, Romania, Poln. Post, Saar, Memel, Eupen-Malmedy, Schleswig, Upper Silesia, East and West Prussia, completely cancelled and uncancelled, plus singles, strips etc.

Volume 8/9: The following European countries up to 1900 cancelled, then uncancelled with first fold up to 1914 (enemy powers 1st World War) or up to currency block:

Austria with various field post (except mustard no. 12, 13, 14 (reprint))

Belgium

Bosnia (up to no. 94)

Bulgaria

Denmark

France (incl. mail in Crete, Levant, Turkey)

Greece

Great Britain (with mail in Turkey, Heligoland)

Ireland (up to no. 39)

Italy

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Sweden

Switzerland from no. 51;

detailed lists are available, especially for volume 1:

albums 1 - 6 are ‘Horn albums’ by Hugo Krötzsch, Leipzig, half-leather self-binding, green calico cover, with gilt edges;

albums 7 - 9 are Borek albums with leather spine and blue calico cover

History
The collection was continuously built up by Richard Schröter (born 1878) from around 1895 until his death in 1949. He was an engineer in the Imperial Navy until the end of the First World War. He was later Technical Director of the steamship company for the Lower and Middle Rhine. He devoted his entire life to stamp collecting and built up an extremely extensive and complete collection of Germany and Europe, including the German colonies and all the occupied territories during the wars.
After bombing raids and the destruction of his apartment in Düsseldorf, Richard Schröter brought his stamp collection to his home in central Germany (Bankverein Artern), where it was stored in a safe deposit box (with a contract dated October 16, 1942).
According to a letter from Bankverein Artern Sprögerts, Büchner & Co dated November 10, 1945, the bank was closed by the Russian military administration on August 15, 1945 and the entire contents confiscated. The safe deposit boxes were forcibly opened (if the owners were not on site) (including Richard Schröter's box no. 2) and removed by September 25 at the latest. (A letter from the bank with further details is available).
Whereabouts unknown.
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Looted property
Search Request, Person

Schröter, Richard

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