Germany-DDR 1987 Freshwater Fishes

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  • Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1987; commemorative stamps of the issue "Freshwater Fishes";

issue of 6 stamps + 2 small sheets + 1 stamp booklet

Stamp datas:

  • Catalogue numbers :
- Michel type I (with year number) : No. 3095Iv - 3100Iv (small sheets: 3096IvKB, 3097IvKB)
- Michel type II (without year number) : from booklet No. 9 (MH9), No. 3096IIv
- Yvert & Tellier : No. 2715 - 2720 (small sheets: 2716bf, 2717bf)
- Yvert & Tellier : No. 2819 (from booklet)
- Scott : No. 2607 - 2612
  • Colors : multicolored
  • Watermark : none
  • Nominal value :
- single stamps: 5 - 10 - 20 - 35 - 50 - 70 (Pfennig)
- small sheets: 10 - 20 (Pfennig)
- booklet (Michel type II): 10 Pfennig
  • Postage validity :
- normal issue : 19 May 1987 - 02 October 1990
- small sheet Michel No. 3096IvKB and 3097IvKB : 16 June 1987 - 02 October 1990
- stamp booklet-issue : 29 November 1988 - 02 October 1990
  • Designed by : Kraus (?)
  • Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
  • Print process : Offset printing on luminescating paper
  • Print runs :
- 5 (Pfennig) : 6,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
- 10 (Pfennig) : 26,400,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
- 10 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in small sheets à 4 stamps (2x2)
- 10 (Pfennig) : 77,000,000 in booklets MH9
- 20 (Pfennig) : 16,400,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
- 20 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in small sheets à 4 stamps (2x2)
- 35 (Pfennig) : 3,500,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
- 50 (Pfennig) : 3,500,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
- 70 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)
  • Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13 : 12½
  • Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without a possible year number) : 39.0 x 20.5 mm


Commemorative stamps of the issue"Freshwater fishes";
(issue of 6 stamps + 2 small sheets + 1 stamp booklet)

Mint stamps

Michel No. 3095Iv, mint
Michel No. 3096Iv, mint
Michel No. 3097Iv, mint
Michel No. 3098Iv, mint
Michel No. 3099Iv, mint
Michel No. 3100Iv, mint

Postmarked stamps

Michel No. 3095Iv, postmarked
Michel No. 3096Iv, postmarked
Michel No. 3096IIv, postmarked at "1532 Kleinmachnow"
Michel No. 3097Iv, postmarked
Michel No. 3098Iv, postmarked
Michel No. 3099Iv, postmarked
Michel No. 3100Iv, postmarked

Small sheets

Michel No. 3096IvKB, mint
Michel No. 3097IvKB, mint
Michel No. 3096IvKB, postmarked
Michel No. 3097IvKB, postmarked

Stamp booklet


To the stamp motives:
- 5 (Pfennig) : "Abramis brama" (English: "Freshwater Bream"; German: "Blei")
- 10 (Pfennig) : "Salmo trutta forma fario" (English: "Brown Trout", German: "Bachforelle")
- 20 (Pfennig) : "Silurus granis" (English: "Catfish"; German: "Wels")
- 35 (Pfennig) : "Thymallus thymallus" (Englich "Grayling"; German: "Äsche")
- 50 (Pfennig) : "Barbus barbus" (English: "Barbel", German: "Barbe")
- 70 (Pfennig) : "Esox lucius" (English: "Northern Pike", German: "Hecht")