Germany-DDR 1957 Day of the Stamp, 1957

Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1957; commemorative stamp of the issue "Day of the Stamp, 1957";
(issue of 1 stamp)
Stamp datas

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 600; Yvert & Tellier: No. 325; Scott: No. 369; AFA: No. 404
• Color : grey black on dull brown
• Watermark : GDR No. 3 (crossflowers and letters "DDR")
• Nominal value : 5 (Pfennig)
• Postage validity : 25 October 1957 – 31 March 1959
• Designed by : Axel Bengs (1925/1926-1988)
• Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
• Print process : Offset printing
• Perforation, K 13½ : 13
• Print run : 6,000,000
• Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 25.5 x 31.0 mm
• Vaieties :

- I (or Michel No. 600I) : defecatong horse (field 24)

- II (or Michel No. 600III) : letter "U" in "Republik" slightly isented at top left (field 47)

- III : two dots in vicinity of the letter "D" in "Demokratische" (field 46)

- IV : a dot below the horse (field 10)

- V (or Michel No. 600II) : letter "M" in "UM" slightly idented at bottom left (field 49)

- + further 3 unlisted varietes

Commemorative stamp of the issue "Day of the Stamp 1957";
(issue of 1 stamp)

Stamp, mint

Michel No. 600, mint

Stamp, postmarked

Michel No. 600, postmarked

FDC

FDC to this issue, real used from Berlin to Dresden, postmarked at "Berlin C2", 30-10-1957

To the stamp motive:
- 5 (Pfennig) : German post rider around 1563
- souvenir envelope (for FDC) motive : German carman around 1574