Danzig air post stamps

espite a mere two decades as a stamp issuing authority, Danzig enjoyed more than half a millennium of thriving city state prosperity before 20th-century madness ripped Danzig apart and scattered her population to the winds. In early medieval times the confluence of the mighty river Vistula with the deep coastal waters of the Baltic Sea offered easy routes to Scandinavia and to the wider European continent. Geography and geology provided an ideal site for the growth of a bustling international market. Grain, furs and luxury goods transported on river barges