Lot no. 269

Caritas 1939, 15s. watercolor design by Günther Reindorff, on cardboard, not perforated, few tiny stains. Tower of the castle in Tallinn, according to legend the burial place of the Estonian national hero Kalev. CARITAS inscription similar to the submitted AK-16B, but only 1 Caritas heart. The 15S RE-1-1939 is in blue color, but the UPU color for foreign postcard postage, 15s. at the time, is red. EESTI POST is positioned on 2 lines, the correction mark on Roosman's AK-9B was probably overlooked by Reindorff. Reindorff positioned EESTI POST onto a single line in AK-16A, AK-16C and later. Two vertically positioned value inscription, one in large letters and the other in small letters, are also shown in RE-3-1939, AK-16B, AK-17A, AK-18A, AK-18B, AK-18C, AK-18D, AK-19A, AK-19B, AK-19C and AK-19D and on the postage stamps of 1939