Germany 1945 Definitives - Province Saxony - perforate
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- Label : "Deutsche Post"; 1945; definitive stamps of the issue "Coat of arms, perforated"; usable only in the area of the "Oberpostdirektion" (OPD) Halle (until 21-07-1945, after "Postdirektion der Provinz Sachsen"). The "Provinz Sachsen" had three administrative districts, with those being Magdeburg, Merseburg, and Dessau.; issue of 12 stamps
Stamp datas:
- Issue Date : December 1945
- Catalogue numbers: Michel No. 73-84 (X and Y); Yvert & Tellier: No. 8-19 (Y = Var1); AFA: No. 8-19 (X and Y)
- Colors :
- - (blackish) grey blue to green blue - (dark) orange brown to yellow brown - (dark) olive green - grey violet -...
- - ... - red orange to yellowish red - red to dark rose red - brown carmine -...
- - ... - cobalt blue - brown orange - dark brown olive - (dark) carmine lilac
- Watermark : Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany No. 1X (stairs falling) or 1Y (stairs increasing)
- Nominal value : 1 - 3 - 5 - 6 - 8 - 12 - 15 - 20 - 24 - 30 - 40 Pfennig
- Postage validity : to 31 October 1946
- Designed by : Ewald Manz (1884-1968)
- Printed by : "Giesecke & Devrient", Leipzig
- Print process : Letterpress printing
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13 : 12½
- Stamp size : printed area of a single stamp : 18.0 x 22.0 mm
- Print runs:
- - 1 Pfennig : 4,000,000
- - 3 Pfennig : 6,000,000
- - 5 Pfennig : 5,000,000
- - 6 Pfennig : 15,000,000
- - 8 Pfennig : 6,000,000
- - 12 Pfennig : 5,000,000
- - 15 Pfennig : 15,000,000
- - 20 Pfennig : 2,000,000 (therefrom Michel No. 80X : 5000)
- - 24 Pfennig : 6,000,000
- - 30 Pfennig : 4,000,000
- - 40 Pfennig : 4,000,000
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