Germany-DDR 1988 HABRIA '88

• Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1988; souvenir envelope to the topic "30 years of HABRIA - VIIth HABRIA - Ist Medicaphil"; HABRIA = "Havelländische Briefmarkenausstellung"; This stamp exhibition "VIIth HABRIA / Ist Medicaphil" took place in Falkensee (Brandenburg, Germany), at 15 October 1988 - 16 October 1988. The additional motive of the cover shows a letter from 1834 to Salzwedel with disinfection cancel. The explaining inscription is (in German language): "Prussian parcel accompanying letter from 1834 in transnational traffic with Saxonian disinfections cancel".; The letter is franked with the stamp Michel No. 2925 from 1985 from the series "Historical mail boxes" (was also a part of a "4-stamps-se-tenant"). The stamp is postmarked with a special postmark to the same occasion showing a side portrait of Karl Friedrich Jakob Sudhoff (1853-1938) and inscriptions as one-circle special postmark with 41 mm diameter from 1988-10-15.
  

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 2925; Yvert et Tellier: No. 2554; Scott: No. 2457

(This stamp was part of a "4-stamps-se-tenant".)

• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 20 (Pfennig)
• Postage validity :

- 05 February 1988 - 02 October 1990 (stamp)

- 15 October 1988 - 02 October 1990 (envelope)

• Stamp picture size (printed area without year line): 24.0 x 29.0 mm
• Postmark: 1540 Falkensee (then district of Potsdam, contemporary Brandenburg, Germany), 15-10-1988, one-circle special postmark with 41 mm diameter
• Designed by : Ulrich Lindner (* 1938) (stamp)
• Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig (stamp)
• Print Process : Offset printing
• Print run : 11,500,000 stamps (in sheets à 50 stamps and/or 5x2 se-tenants)
• Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14

Covers, cards, and other philatelic products

Souvenir envelope to the HABRIA '88, postmarked at Falkensee, 15-10-1988