Germany-DDR 1971 Art Treasures
- Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1971; commemorative stamps of the issue "Art tresures from the Green Vault in Dresden";
(issue of 6 stamps)
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1682-1687; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1370-1375; Scott: No. 1306-1311; AFA: No. 1437-1442
- Color : multicolored, each stamp with different monochromized background
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 5 – 10 – 15 – 20 – 25 – 30 (Pfennig)
- Postage validity : 22 June 1971 - 02 October 1990
- Designed by : Gerhard Voigt (1926-2005)
- Printed by : "VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
- Print process : Photogravure on luminescent paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13
- Print runs :
- - 5 (Pfennig) : 12,600,000
- - 10 (Pfennig) : 14,700,000
- - 15 (Pfennig) : 10,800,000
- - 20 (Pfennig) : 9,300,000
- - 25 (Pfennig) : 1,800,000
- - 30 (Pfennig) : 4,500,000
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 36.0 x 24.5 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "Art tresures from the Green Vault in Dresden";
(issue of 6 stamps)
Stamps
Mint
Postmarked
To the stamp motives:
All depicted jewelleries are from the "Green Vault" in Dresden.
- 5 (Pfennig) : "Cherry stone with 180 heads", created around 1590 in the style of the Baroque
- 10 (Pfennig) : "Golden Flees"; created around 1730 in the style of the Baroque
- 15 (Pfennig) : "Splendour pot", created at Nuremberg around 1530 in the style of the Renaissance
- 20 (Pfennig) : "Moor as kettle tympanist on grey horse"; created around 1720 in the style of the Baroque
- 25 (Pfennig) : Small box for writing materials, created in 1562 in the style of the Baroque
- 30 (Pfennig) : Jewellery pendant "Saint George"; created around 1570 in the style of the Baroque
