Germany-DDR 1973 Luge-WM in Oberhof

• Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1973, commemorative stamp to the issue "15th Luge-World Mastership in Oberhof 1973":
  

(issue of 1 stamp)
Note:
The XVth World Masterships in Luge took place in Oberhof in the time 16 – 18 February 1973 (then district of Suhl, contemporary Thuringia, Germany). The Oberhof track was built in 1969-1970 (inaugurated 1971) after plans of the "Planungsbüro Deyle", Stuttgart (later continued by the "Wissenschaftliches Technikzentrum für Sportbauten", Leipzig). The original 1354m long track (competition length in later time: 1369,70 m with 14 curves) is located at the "Schützenberg" at Oberhof.

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1831; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1526; Scott: No. 1450
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 35 (Pfennig)
• Postage validity : 13 February 1973 – 02 October 1990
• Designed by : Lothar Grünewald
• Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
• Perforation: Comb perforation, K 12½ : 13
• Print run : 6,000,000 stamps
• Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 22.0 x 59.5 mm

Commemorative stamp to the issue "15th Luge-World Mastership in Oberhof 1971":
(issue of 1 stamp)

Stamp, mint

Michel No. 1831, mint

Stamp, postmarked

Michel No. 1831, postmarked