Postally Used Germany

[youpiao]

The placement, neat clear inking, and what appears to be a special design in the center, leads me to believe this is a philatelic cancel and not postally used. Anybody think otherwise?

[khj]

1950 Oberammergau Passion Play pictorial cancel. Yes, these were often nicely favor-cancelled, although once off card/cover/paper, can't really prove whether it went through the postal system or not.

Germany has a LOT of event pictorial cancels.

[khj]

Here are examples of what the entire pictorial cancel looks like (it was easier to pilfer it off the web than to try to dig it out of my unscanned reference archive). Now I feel stupid for criticizing unnamed group for being slow in going digital.