Germany-DDR 1990 100 years of Berlin Museum of Natural Science

• Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1990; commemorative stamps of the issue "100 years Museum of Natural Sciences in Berlin" (as Museum of the Humboldt-University of Berlin);
  

issue of 5 stamps + 1 se-tenant

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3324-3328 (se-tenant: No. 3325KB); Yvert & Tellier: No. 2924-2928 (se-tenant: No. 2925bf); Scott: No. 2812-2816 (se-tenant: 2813a); AFA: 2983-2987
• Color : multicolored

- 10 (Pfennig) : blue colors dominating

- 20 (Pfennig) : greyish green colors dominatin

- 35 (Pfennig) : violetish grey colors dominating

- 50 (Pfennig) : greyish colors dominating

- 85 (Pfennig) : bronish dark yellow colors dominatng

• Watermark : none
• Nominal valus : 10 – 20 – 35 – 50 – 85 (Pfennig)
• Postage validity : 17 April 1990 – 02 October 1990
• Designed by : Ulrike Lange
• Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescating paper
• Perforatiion :

- horizontal formats : Comb perforation, K 13 : 12½

- vertical formats : Comb perforation, K 12½ : 13

• Print runs :

- 10 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)

- 20 (Pfennig) : 12,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5) therefrom 8,000,000 in small sheets (2x2)

- 35 (Pfennig) : 4,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)

- 50 (Pfennig) : 3,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)

- 85 (Pfennig) : 2,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)

• Stamp size :

- horizontal formats (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 39.0 x 21.5 mm

- vertical formats (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 21.5 x 39.0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "100 years Museum of Natural Sciences in Berlin";
(issue of 4 stamps + 1 block à 1 stamp)

Mint stamps

Michel No. 3324, mint	Michel No. 3325, mint	Michel No. 3326, mint
Michel No. 3327, mint	Michel No. 3328, mint

Postmarked stamps

Michel No. 3324, postmarked	Michel No. 3325, postmarked	Michel No. 3326, postmarked
Michel No. 3327, postmarked	Michel No. 3328, postmarked

Small sheets

Small sheet Michel No. 3325KB, mint

Small sheet Michel No. 3325KB, postmarked

To the stamp motives:
- 10 (Pfennig) : “Dicraeosaurus hansemann”, relative little dinosaur of the Upper Jurassic time (Thitonium) - 20 (Pfennig) : “Kentrosaurus aethiopicus“, primitive member of the stegosaurus suborder
- 35 (Pfennig) : “Dysalotosaurus lottowvorbecki (English: “Uncatchable lizard”), herbivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic-time (Kimmeridgian)
(named by Hans Virchow in 1919 in honour of the Imperial Army Officer and Supreme Commander of the German Troups in East-Africa (1914-1917), Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964)) - 50 (Pfennig) : “Brachiosaurus branci” (English: “Giraffatitan”), dinosaur of the Upper Jurassic time, subspecies or sister group of the Brachiosauridae with relative little skull and giraffa-like neck
- 85 (Pfennig) : “Skull of an Brachiosaurus”
- Postmark : “The “Archeopteryx”-fossil of the Museum of Natural Science in Berlin (An “Archeoperyx” represents a transitional species between theropod dinosaurs and birds.)