Germany-DDR 1986 WM in shooting

• Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1990; commemorative stamps of the issue

"44th World Mastership of the Sports Shooting, 1986 in Suhl" (then district of Suhl, contemporary Thuringia); issue of 3 stamps

Note:
The "44th International World Masterships of the Sports Shooting" took place in the days after the 07th March 1986 in the "Sportschießzentrum Suhl" (opened 1971) under participation of 61 nations and 80,000 visitors.

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3045-3047; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2666-2668; Scott: No. 2567-2569; AFA: No. 2718-2720
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 20 - 70 - 85 (Pfennig)
• Postage validity : 02 September 1986 - 02 October 1990
• Designed by : Ekkehart Haller
• Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
• Print process : Photogravure
• Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
• Print run:

- 20 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)

- 70 (Pfennig) : 4,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)

- 85 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)

• Stamp size (printed area of single stamp without year line): 23.5 x 28.5 mm

Stamps of the issue "44th World Mastership of the Sports Shooting, 1986 in Suhl"
(issue of 3 stamps)

Mint stamps

Michel No. 3045, mint

Michel No. 3046, mint

Michel No. 3047, mint

Postmarked stamps

Michel No. 3045, postmarked

Michel No. 3046, postmarked

Michel No. 3047, postmarked

To the stamp motives:
- 20 (Pfennig) : Rifle shooting
- 70 (Pfennig) : Pistol shooting
- 85 (Pfennig) : Skeet shooting