Germany-DDR 1990 100 years of 1st May

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  • Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1990; commemorative stamps of the issue

"100 years of 1st May" ("Labour Day"): issue of 2 stamps

Stamp datas:

  • Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3322, 3323; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2931, 2932; Scott: No. 2810, 2811
  • Color : multicolored
  • Watermark : none
  • Nominal value : 10 - 20 (Pfennig)
  • Postage validity : 03 April 1990 - 02 October 1990
  • Designed by : Ekkehart Haller
  • Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
  • Print process : Photogravure on luminescating paper
  • Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
  • Print run: 8,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)
  • Stamp size (printed area of single stamp without year line): 23.0 x 28.5 mm


Stamps of the issue "100 years of 1st May"
(issue of 2 stamps)

Mint stamps

Michel No. 3322, mint
Michel No. 3323, mint

Postmarked stamps

Michel No. 3322, postmarked
Michel No. 3323, postmarked


To the stamp motives:
- 10 (Pfennig) : historical May-poster (around 1890)
- 20 (Pfennig) : red carnation as 1-May-symbol