Germany-DDR 1985 40th Anniversary of Liberation
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- Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1985; commemotarive stamps of the issue "40th anniversary of Liberation 1945-1985";
issue of 4 stamps + 1 block à 1 stamp
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 2941-2944 + Bl. 82 (Block 82 = 2945); Yvert & Tellier: No. 2566-2569 + BF81; Scott: No. 2471-2474
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal valus :
- - 10 - 20 - 25 - 50 (Pfennig) (stamps)
- - 1 M (Mark) (block)
- Postage validity : 07 May 1985 - 02 October 1990
- Designed by : Manfred Gottschall (1937-2015)
- Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
- Print process :
- - Photogravure on luminescent paper (stamps)
- - Offset printing on luminescent paper (block)
- Perforatiion :
- - Comb perforation, K 14 (stamps)
- - Harrow perforation, Ks 12½ : 13 (block)
- Print runs :
- - 10 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 20 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 25 (Pfennig) : 6,000,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 50 (Pfeniig) : 2,100,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 1 M (Mark) : 2,100,000 blocks
- Stamp size :
- - stamps (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 29.0 x 50.5 mm
- - block-stamp (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 21.5 x 38.5 mm
- - cutted format of the block : 54.5 x 81.0 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "40th anniversary of Liberation 1945-1985";
(issue of 4 stamps + 1 block à 1 stamp)
Mint stamps
Postmarked stamps
Block
Cover, cards, and philatelic souvenirs
To the stamp motives:
- 10 (Pfennig) : Common space flight GDR-USSR in 1978 - the cosmonauts Sigmund Jähn (1937-2019) + Valeri Bykowski (1934-2019) before the launch
- 20 (Pfennig) : Coal and Energy - Adolf Hennecke (1905-1975) in 1948
- 25 (Pfennig) : Socialist agriculture - agricultural worker + farm tractors
- 50 (Pfennig) : Science and Technology - female workers + microchip
- 1 M (Mark) : Soviet monument in Berlin-Treptow