Stamp collection of Richard Schröter
9 stamp albums with the following contents:
Volume 1: Old Germany (except Brunswick No. 13, 14, 15 and 18B) with many additional stamps, larger units and specialities;
Volume 2: German Colonies, all areas, complete with various covers, varieties etc.;
Volume 3: German Empire; a) cancelled 1872- 1902: complete, partly multiple
mint: corner margin block of four (top) from b) No. 83 - 263 in all occurring printing variants, also includes Vineta Provisional on strip, no special stamps
Volume 4: German Reich; no. 264 - 667 as 3b, plus whole sheets of OPD prints specialised, no special stamps
Volume 5: German Reich: all special stamps in mint corner margin blocks of four, as well as souvenir sheets and miniature sheets
Volume 6: German Reich: all official and airmail stamps, mint corner margin blocks of four, all stamp booklet sheets, from 1933 entire stamp booklets, se-tenants and reverse prints from booklet sheets
Volume 7: German occupations: Belgium, Russia, Romania, Poln. Post, Saar, Memel, Eupen-Malmedy, Schleswig, Upper Silesia, East and West Prussia, completely cancelled and uncancelled, plus singles, strips etc.
Volume 8/9: The following European countries up to 1900 cancelled, then uncancelled with first fold up to 1914 (enemy powers 1st World War) or up to currency block:
Austria with various field post (except mustard no. 12, 13, 14 (reprint))
Belgium
Bosnia (up to no. 94)
Bulgaria
Denmark
France (incl. mail in Crete, Levant, Turkey)
Greece
Great Britain (with mail in Turkey, Heligoland)
Ireland (up to no. 39)
Italy
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland from no. 51;
detailed lists are available, especially for volume 1:
albums 1 - 6 are ‘Horn albums’ by Hugo Krötzsch, Leipzig, half-leather self-binding, green calico cover, with gilt edges;
albums 7 - 9 are Borek albums with leather spine and blue calico cover
After bombing raids and the destruction of his apartment in Düsseldorf, Richard Schröter brought his stamp collection to his home in central Germany (Bankverein Artern), where it was stored in a safe deposit box (with a contract dated October 16, 1942).
According to a letter from Bankverein Artern Sprögerts, Büchner & Co dated November 10, 1945, the bank was closed by the Russian military administration on August 15, 1945 and the entire contents confiscated. The safe deposit boxes were forcibly opened (if the owners were not on site) (including Richard Schröter's box no. 2) and removed by September 25 at the latest. (A letter from the bank with further details is available).
Whereabouts unknown.