Germany-DDR 1990 100 years of Berlin Museum of Natural Science
- Label : "Deutsche Post" of the German Democratic Republic; 1990; commemorative stamps of the issue "100 years Museum of Natural Sciences in Berlin" (as Museum of the Humboldt-University of Berlin);
issue of 5 stamps + 1 se-tenant
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3324-3328 (se-tenant: No. 3325KB); Yvert & Tellier: No. 2924-2928 (se-tenant: No. 2925bf); Scott: No. 2812-2816 (se-tenant: 2813a); AFA: 2983-2987
- Color : multicolored
- - 10 (Pfennig) : blue colors dominating
- - 20 (Pfennig) : greyish green colors dominatin
- - 35 (Pfennig) : violetish grey colors dominating
- - 50 (Pfennig) : greyish colors dominating
- - 85 (Pfennig) : bronish dark yellow colors dominatng
- Watermark : none
- Nominal valus : 10 – 20 – 35 – 50 – 85 (Pfennig)
- Postage validity : 17 April 1990 – 02 October 1990
- Designed by : Ulrike Lange
- Printed by : "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescating paper
- Perforatiion :
- - horizontal formats : Comb perforation, K 13 : 12½
- - vertical formats : Comb perforation, K 12½ : 13
- Print runs :
- - 10 (Pfennig) : 8,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)
- - 20 (Pfennig) : 12,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5) therefrom 8,000,000 in small sheets (2x2)
- - 35 (Pfennig) : 4,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)
- - 50 (Pfennig) : 3,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)
- - 85 (Pfennig) : 2,000,000 in sheets à 50 stamps (10x5)
- Stamp size :
- - horizontal formats (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 39.0 x 21.5 mm
- - vertical formats (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 21.5 x 39.0 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "100 years Museum of Natural Sciences in Berlin";
(issue of 4 stamps + 1 block à 1 stamp)
Mint stamps
Postmarked stamps
Small sheets
To the stamp motives:
- 10 (Pfennig) : “Dicraeosaurus hansemann”, relative little dinosaur of the Upper Jurassic time (Thitonium)
- 20 (Pfennig) : “Kentrosaurus aethiopicus“, primitive member of the stegosaurus suborder
- 35 (Pfennig) : “Dysalotosaurus lottowvorbecki (English: “Uncatchable lizard”), herbivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic-time (Kimmeridgian)
(named by Hans Virchow in 1919 in honour of the Imperial Army Officer and Supreme Commander of the German Troups in East-Africa (1914-1917), Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964))
- 50 (Pfennig) : “Brachiosaurus branci” (English: “Giraffatitan”), dinosaur of the Upper Jurassic time, subspecies or sister group of the Brachiosauridae with relative little skull and giraffa-like neck
- 85 (Pfennig) : “Skull of an Brachiosaurus”
- Postmark : “The “Archeopteryx”-fossil of the Museum of Natural Science in Berlin (An “Archeoperyx” represents a transitional species between theropod dinosaurs and birds.)