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
Postmarked stamps
Small sheets
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")