1939 Germany B134-136 FDC on Adv. Cards

[samb]

Picked these up at my club meeting auction last night and thought I'd share...

Germany 1939
B134-136 set
First Day cancel on Bank Advertising cards

[PostmasterGS]

Those are nice.

These cards were given out by the banks to entrants at the International Automobile & Motorcycle Show in Berlin, 17 February - 5 March 1939, the event the stamps were issued to commemorate.

At the Show, each entrant was entitled to purchase 2 sets of the stamps, which at the time were only available at the Show (they didn't become generally available at post offices until the conclusion of the Show). Many collectors bought the stamps, then attached them to the cards and had them cancelled with a commemorative cancel from the show. Your cancels are also first day cancels.

There exists a very similar advertising design on coin wrappers, which were also available at the Show and were also stamped/cancelled in the same fashion.