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

Michel No. 2941, mint
Michel No. 2942, mint
Michel No. 2943, mint
Michel No. 2944, mint

Postmarked stamps

Michel No. 2941, postmarked
Michel No. 2942, postmarked
Michel No. 2943, postmarked
Michel No. 2944, postmarked

Block

Michel Block 82, mint
Michel Block 82, postmarked

Cover, cards, and philatelic souvenirs

Souvenir envelope to the XI stamp exhibition of the distict of Erfurt, postmarked at "5010 Erfurt 1", 14-07-1985
Souvenir postcard to the 7th Day of Space, postmarked at "2000 Neubrandenburg 2", 19-10-1985


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