Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives

• Label : "Deutsche Post"; 1945; stamps for the Soviet Occupation Zone "West Saxony", stamps for use in the area of the "Oberpostdirektion (OPD) Leipzig" (= West Saxony); issue of 4 imperforate stamps in the number drawing
  

Stamp datas:

• Issue date : 28 September 1945
• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 116X-119X (also "Y"), Yvert & Tellier: No. 1-4 (DD-SOC); Scott: 14N2, 14N3a, 14N5a, 14N7a (DE); AFA: No. 1C, 2, 3C, 4 (DD-WS)
• Color : blackish olive green to dark olive green - purple violet to grey violet- red orange - carmine red
• Watermark: Soviet Occupation Zone No. 1X (stairs, falling) or Soviet Occupation Zone No. 1Y (stairs, increasing)
• Nominal value : 5 - 6 - 8 - 12 Pfennig
• Postage validity : to 31 October 1946
• Printed by : "Giesecke & Devrient", Leipzig
• Print process : Letterpress printing
• Perforation : none (imperforate)
• Stamp size : printed area of a single stamp: 18.0 x 22.0 mm
• Print runs :

- 5 Pfennig : 3,000,000

- 6 Pfennig : 8,000,000

- 8 Pfennig : 5,000,000

- 12 Pfennig : 14,000,000

Stamps

imperforate, watermark 1X, mint

Michel No. 116X, mint

Michel No. 117X, mint

Michel No. 118X, mint

Michel No. 119X, mint

imperforate, watermark 1X, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 116X, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 117X, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 118X, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 119X, postmarked

imperforate, watermark 1Y, mint

Michel No. 116Y, mint

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 117Y, mint

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 118Y, mint

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 119Y, mint

imperforate, watermark 1Y, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 116Y, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 117Y, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 118Y, postmarked

File:Germany-Allied Occ 1945 Soviet Zone,West Saxony Definitives a1.jpg Michel No. 119Y, postmarked