Germany-DDR 1989 40 years GDR
From Stamps of the World
- Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1989; commemorative stamps of the issue "40 years GDR";
issue of 4 stamps + 1 block
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3279-3282 (+ Block 100 (3283); Yvert & Tellier: No. 2884-2887 (BF 99); Scott: No. 2776-2779 (2780); AFA: 2937-2940
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal valus : 5 - 10 - 20 - 25 - 135 (Pfennig)
- Postage validity : 03 October 1989 – 02 October 1990
- Designed by : Joachim Rieß (* 1937)
- Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Print run :
- - 5 (Pfennig) : 6,000,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 10 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in steets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 20 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 25 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 in steets à 25 stamps (5x5)
- - 135 (Pfennig) : 2,100,000 numberated blocks
- Stamp size :
- - printed area of a singl stamp without year line : 51.0 x 28.5 mm
- - printed area of a block stamp as distance between the inner tangens of the perforation lines: 53.5 x 32.0 mm
- - printed format of a block without yaer line and block number : 102.0 x 78.5 mm
- Block number :
- - mint block : "0209085"
- - postmarked block : "2055485"
Commemorative stamps of the issue "40 years of GDR";
(issue of 4 stamps and 1 block)
Mint stamps
Postmarked stamps
Block
To the stamp motibes:
- 5 (Pfennig) "Youth learners" beside National emblem of the GDR
- 10 (Pfennig) : "Socialist agriculture" beside National emblem of the GDR
- 20 (Pfennig) : People of the "Alliance Party" before a town planning model beside National emblem of the GDR
- 25 (Pfennig) : "Modern engeneering" beside National emblem of the GDR
- 135 (Pfennig) : "Construction workers" beside National emblem of the GDR
