Germany-Third Reich 1935 Saar Referendum
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- Label ; "Deutsche Reichspoat"; 1935; commemorative stamps of the issue to the "Popular referendum about the Saarland"; stamp motive with a mother welcomed her child after a teplate by Emmy Glitzer (1899-1992) (It is meant the Saar plebiscite on 13 January 1935.); issue of 4 stamps each in the same drawing but with color differences.
Note:
The "Popular referendum about the Saarland" took place on the 13 January 1935 under the supervion of the Legaue of Nations. Eligible to vote were ca. 540,000 people. Ca. 90.5 % of these voted for an annexion of the Saarland to Germany, whereas only 0.4% were for an annexion to France. With the 01 March 1935 took place the incorporation of the Saarland to the German Empire with a new "Gauleiter" for the Nazi-"Gau Saarland". This was Josef Bürckel (1895-1944).
Stamp datas:
- Issue date : 16 January 1935
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 565-588; Yvert & Tellier: No. 525-527; Scott: No. 448-451
- Colors : blackish red brown - dark green to blackish opal green, dark carmine red . black blue
- Watermark : Germany No. 4 (crosses (swastikas))
- Nominal values : 3 - 5 - 12 - 25 (Reichspfennig)
- Postage validity : to 31 December 1936
- Designed by : Emmy Glitzer (1899-1992)
- Printed by : "Reichsdruckerei", Berlin
- Print process : Photogravure on coated paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
- Stamp size : printed area of a single stamp: 19.5 x 24.0 mm
- Variant :
- - 25 (Rpf) : also imperforate
Commemorative stamps of the issue to the "Popular referendum about the Saarland"
(issue of 4 stamps)
