Kriegsmarine Torpedo Boat Leopard Raubtier Class Wesermunde (Vintage RPPC 1935)

vintage real photo postcard (rppc) titled "torpedoboot 'leopard'" (recognition letters "lp" visible on bow), no. 1703

published by marineverlag fritz finke, wilhelmshaven.

the leopard was a raubtier-class torpedo boat of the reichsmarine/kriegsmarine, built 1927-1929; she took part in non-intervention patrols during the spanish civil war and later in the 1940 norwegian campaign, before sinking after a collision in the skagerrak on 30 april 1940.

postally used, franked with a german reich 6 pfennig hindenburg stamp, tied by a wesermünde-geestemünde cds dated 26 september 1935, addressed to fräulein emmy zeuner, nürnberg, kulmannstrasse 31. handwritten german correspondence covering the reverse.

postally used in 1935

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

condition: very good...please also refer to scans which show complete front and backside of postcard

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