Germany-DDR 1967 Stolen paintings
- Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1967; commemorative stamps of the issue "Missed paintings";
(issue of 6 stamps)
Stamp datas:
- Cataloge numbers : Michel: No. 1286-1291: Yvert & Tellier: No. 983-988; Scott: No. 929-934; AFA: No. 1069-1074
- Colors :
- - 5 (Pfennig) : dull blue to blue / dark blue to dull greenish blue
- - 10 (Pfennig) : yellow brown to dull orange brown / blackish yellow brown to dark orange brown
- - 20 (Pfennig) : yellow green to light yellow green / blackish yellow green to dark yellowi green
- - 25 (Pfennig) : brown purple to dull purple / white purple to purple
- - 40 (Pfennig) : blackish olive to dull brownish olive / white olive to dark brownish olive
- - 50 (Pfennig) : blackish brown to dull violet brown / white brown to dark violet brown
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 5 - 10 - 20 - 25 - 40 - 50 (Pfennig)
- Postage validity : 07 June 1967 - 02 October 1990
- Designed by : Fritz Deutschendorf (1914-1993) (design of the stamps)
- Printed by : "VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig (GDR)
- Print process : Photogravure on coated paper (luminescent)
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
- Print runs :
- - 5 (Pfennig) : 6,000,000
- - 10 (Pfennig) : 16,000,000
- - 20 (Pfennig) : 11,000,000
- - 25 (Pfennig) : 4,500,000
- - 40 (Pfennig) : 5,000,000
- - 50 (Pfennig) : 1,500,000
- Stamp size :
- - horizontal format (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 39.0 x 20.5 mm
- - vertical format (Printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 20.5 x 38.0 mm (no mistake!)
Commemorative stamps of the issue "Missed paintings";
(issue of 6 stamps)
Stamps
mint
postmarked
To the single stamp motives:
- 5 (Pfennig) : painting "Three horsemen" by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), painting created in the style of the Flemish Baroque; stolen from the "Gemäldegalerie Berlin"
- 10 (Pfennig) : painting "Girl with Grapes" by Gerard Dou (1613-1675); painting created in 1656 in the style of the Dutch Baroque; stolen from the "Dresdner Gemäldegalerie"
- 20 (Pfennig) : painting "Spring Idyll" by Hans Thoma (1839-1924); painting created in the style of the German Romanticism; stolen from the "Dresdner Gemäldegalerie"
- 25 (Pfennig) : painting "Portrait of the court opera songstress Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient" by Karl Begas (1794-1854); painting created in the style of the German Classicism or Neoclassicism; stolen from the "Dresdner Gemäldegalerie"
- 40 (Pfennig) : painting "Young Girl with Straw Hat" by Solomon Bray (1595-1664); painting created in the style of the Dutch Baroque; stolen from the "Dresdner Gemäldegalerie"
- 50 (PFennig) : painting "The four Evangelists" by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678); painting created in the style of the Dutch Baroque; stolen from the "Gemäldegalerie Dessau"
