Germany-DDR 1987 Leipzig Trade Fair - Spring 1987

Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1987; commemorative stamps of the issue "Leipzig Spring Fair 1987";

issue of 2 stamps

Stamp datas:

Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3080-3081; Yvert & Tellier; 2700-2701; Scott: No. 2592-2593; AFA: 2739-2740
Colors : multicolored
Watermark : none
Nominal values : 35 - 50 (Pfennig)
Postage validity : 10 March 1987 - 02 October 1990
Designed by : Jochen Berthold (* 1936)
Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13 : 12½
Print runs :

- 35 (Pfennig) : 4,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)

- 50 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (5x10)

Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without silver frame and year line): 39.0 x 21.5 mm

Stamps of the issue "Leipzig Spring Fair 1987"
(issue of 2 stamps)

Mint stamps

Michel No. 3080, mint

Michel No. 3081, mint

Michel No. 3080, postmarked

Michel No. 3081, postmarked

To the stamp motives:
- 35 (Pfennig) : New building, "Messehalle 20"
- 50 (Pfennig) : Traders before the "Old Scale" on the market in Leipzig (1804)