Germany-Weimar 1922 Airmail - Pigeon-I
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- Label : "Deutsche Reichspost", airmail stamps of the issue "Wooden Pigeon-I"; stamp motives with a stylized wood pigeon after a template by Ernst Aufseeser (1880-1940); Issue of 1922 with watermark No. 2 (meshes); Mark-values in greater format and with colored netlike underpress; issue of 9 stamps
Stamp datas:
- Issue date : July 1922
- Catalogue numbers : Michel 210-218; Yvert & Tellier : PA3-PA11; Scott: C3-C11
- Nominal values and Colors :
- - 25 Pfennig: siena to blackish yellow brown (Michel No. 210)
- - 40 Pfennig: orange (Michel No. 211)
- - 50 Pfennig: blackish grey lilac to brown violet (Michel No. 212)
- - 60 Pfennig: red (Michel No. 213)
- - 80 Pfennig: green (Michel No. 214)
- - 1 Mark: dark green to blackisk blue green on yellowish green to light green (Michel No. 215)
- - 2 Mark: dark carmine to lilac red on light grey (Michel No. 216)
- - 3 Mark.: dark violet untramarine on greenish light grey (Michel No. 217)
- - 5 Mark: orange on light yellow to light vermilion (Michel No. 218)
- Watermark : Germany No. 2 (meshes, standing)
- Postage validity : to 30 September 1923
- Designed by : Ernst Aufseeser (1880-1940)
- Printed by : "Reichsdruckerei", Berlin
- Print process : Letterpress printing
- Perforations :
- - comb perforation, K 13 : 13¾ (Pfennig-values, Michel No. 210-214)
- - comb perforation, K 14 : 14¼ (Mark-values, Michel No. 215-218)
- Stamp Sizes (printed area of a single stamp):
- - smaller format : 19.0 x 22.5 mm (Pfennig-values, Michel No. 210-214)
- - greater format : 21.5 x 28.0 mm (Mark-values, Michel No. 215-218)
Airmail stamps of the issue "Wooden Pigeon-I"
(issue of 9 stamps)
Mint stamps
Used stamps
All stamp motives show each a stylized wooden pigeon after a template by Ernst Aufseeser (1880-1940).
