Germany-Allied Occ 1948 Soviet Zone, definitives, hand-cancellation
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- Label : "Deutsche Post"; 1948; definitive stamps of the General-Issue for Germany (all allied occupation zones) with district-hand-cancel-overprint for the Soviet zone after the introduction of a new currency in the west-zones (begin 24 June 1948); Overprinted were the district number ("3" = "Bezirk Berlin"... "41" = "Bezirk Chemnitz") and the corresponding name of the relating location (districts corresponding to the "Operpostdirektion" (OPD)-numbers for Berlin ("3"), Dresden ("14"), Erfurt ("16"), Halle ("20"), Leipzig ("27"), Magdeburg ("29" former OPD), Potsdam ("36") , Schwerin ("37"), Stettin ("38"), Chemnitz ("41")); overprints in black or violet color (very rarely with other colors), differentation according to the original stamps (number or picture-series); issue of 16+1 stamps of the pictures-series + and 22 (number-series) + overprints on the commemorative issues for all allied occupation zones (general issues); all overprints were on sale only for 9 days: 24 June - 02 July 1948.; Ca. 1100 locations with ca. 1900 cancel types are known.
Stamp datas:
- Issue date : 24 June 1948
- Catalogue numbers : Michel No. 166-181 (picture series), 1a-1y (number-series), IIa - IVb (commemorative issues); Yvert & Tellier + Scott : not mentioned or too confusing
- Colors : different
- Watermark : mostly Allied Occupation Zones for Germany No. 6X or 6Y (inscription "Deutsche Post" falling or increasing) or 7 (steep stairs, falling)
- Nominal values : from 2 (Pfennig) to 84 (Pfennig), all value levels
- Postage validity: to 10 July 1948
- Designed by :
- - picture-series : L.Brand (planter), H.Luckenbach (sower); I.Rogmann (worker with hammer), G.Banach (craftsman and peasant woman), H.W.Hoepfner (peace-dove over hands)
- - number-series : ?
- Printed by : "Staatsdruckerei", Berlin
- Print process : letterpress printing
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
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