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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 910104, member: 6986&quot;]<img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0007-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0008.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was asked to post some of my scarce notgeld. Here is one of them.&nbsp; It is a 1 mark note from the town of Warnitz.&nbsp; It commemmorates the 1920 plebiscite in Schleswig-Holstein where the locals got to choose to remain part of Germany or become part of Denmark.&nbsp; Germany and Denmark had been fighting over this area since the 1840s.&nbsp; The northern zone went to Denmark and the two southern zones stayed with Germany.&nbsp; Warnitz was in the zone that went to Denmark.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few others. They are not scarce but I like them.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0002-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Germania is depicted with a broken sword mourning her war dead on this note from Lockstedter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0003-4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the famous crapping baby note from Brakel.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0005-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0006-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the favorite notes in my entire collection.&nbsp; It has more history per square inch than any other note.&nbsp; It is from the town of Johannisberg.&nbsp; The city shield is depicted showing the head of John the Baptist.&nbsp; The text indicates it was issued to commemmorate the plebiscite in Silesia (near the Polish border -- it went to Germany).&nbsp; On the back is the town hall.&nbsp; The text indicates it was destroyed by the Russians during WWI.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0004-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would be remiss if I did not show this piece from Berlin issued for the Colonial Memorial Day -- Germany lost all her colonies as a result of WWI -- depicting Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the commander of the German forces in German East Africa during WWI.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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