Baden misprint 9 Kreuzer
| Baden misprint 9 Kreuzer | |
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| country | to bathe |
| Face value | 9 cruisers |
| First day | May 1, 1851 |
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| Motif | |
| colour | blue green |
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| Print type | |
| perforation | Cut |
| particularities | Color misprint |
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The Baden-Misprint 9 Kreuzer is a misprint from 1851. On May 1, 1851, the first Baden postage stamps appeared , including the misprint. The philatelist understands “9 Kreuzer blue-green” to mean the color misprint of the value of 9 Kreuzer of the first Baden stamp issue on blue-green instead of purple-pink paper (image on the right not colourfast; paper colors see following illustration).
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Regular stamps: 6 Kreuzer on blue-green and 9 Kreuzer on purple-pink paper
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The blue-green color was intended for the value of 6 Kreuzer and apparently the paper was mixed up. The explanation that has to be read over and over again that the printing plate was used the wrong way round cannot be correct, as the stamp with the value number and frame was printed in one process. An upside-down center piece like the Inverted Jenny is therefore impossible. The insertion of a single false cliché in a printed sheet is also considered unlikely, since with a print run of 8036 sheets of 90 stamps each, more false prints would have to be received. Rather, it can be assumed that the printer accidentally used the wrong printing plate for the green paper: instead of a 9, it read a 6.
Only three canceled copies are known of this misprint . The stamps are numbered "106" for Orschweier (now the town of Mahlberg ), "41" for Ettenheim and "2" for Achern . Two stamps are on letters , the third on a piece of letter . The misprint is one of the largest philatelic rarities in the world and was only discovered 43 years after the stamp was issued. Due to the rarity of the misprints, counterfeits were repeatedly produced. For this purpose, normal stamps were bleached on lilac pink paper and then colored green. In contrast to the strong blue-green misprints, they are distinguished by a dirty gray-green color and are just as worthless as modern reprints of these and many other philatelic rarities.
Preserved copies
Letter with number stamp 41 (Ettenheim)
It is a small-format folded letter with content from Altdorf bei Ettenheim , the country estate of the von Türckheim family, to the Baden diplomat Hans Freiherr von Türckheim (1814–1892) in Karlsruhe . The exceptionally freshly colored stamp is stuck on the front lower left and canceled with a five-ring stamp "41" ( Ettenheim ) which is transferred to the letter . It is a minimally touched lower right and otherwise full to wide margins almost flawless copy with only a slight vertical letter fold trace. On the right edge of the front of the letter there is a double circle stamp "ETTENHEIM 25 AUG." On the back there are remains of a red lacquer seal in the middle, on the right two two-line rectangular box stamps, once a transport stamp "EB 25.Aug.51" and an arrival stamp "CARLSRUHE". The use required a postage of six cruisers, so the stamp was used according to its color and not according to the value.
This letter bears the first known copy of the misprint. It was shown in 1894 by the son of the addressee, who died in 1892, in the Berlin Philatelic Club and in the same year it was auctioned by a London auction house for 100 British pounds . This made it into the Ferrari collection . In 1985 this letter was acquired by Erivan Haub , the head of the Tengelmann Group . At that time it achieved a sales price of 2.3 million DM (starting price 1.5 million DM), which, adjusted for inflation, would be 2.10 million euros today. After Haub's death, the letter was auctioned by Heinrich Köhler auction house for 1.26 million euros in June 2019 . This makes the Baden-Misprint 9 Kreuzer the most expensive German postage stamp.
- Provenance
- Hans von Türckheim , the addressee's son
- Venton Bull and Cooper auction house in London (1894), knocked down for £ 100
- Philip of Ferrary
- Ferrary auction at Gilbert in Paris (1922), knocked down for 120,000 francs plus 17.5 percent expenses and taxes
- M. Kurt Maier, Berlin (stamp dealer)
- Philipp Kosack , Berlin (stamp dealer)
- Alfred H. Caspary (collector)
- Caspary auction in New York (1956), knocked down for $ 20,000
- Herbert J. Bloch (auction agent and stamp dealer, 1956)
- John R. Boker
- Boker auction at Heinrich Köhler, Wiesbaden (1985) called for 1,500,000 DM and sold for 2.3 million DM
- Erivan Haub
- Erivan auction at Heinrich Köhler 2019, declared for € 800,000 and for € 1,260,000 (plus 21% commission and 19% sales tax on commission and expenses)
Letter with number postmark 106 (Orschweier)
The letter, postmarked in Orschweier on July 20, 1851, was also addressed to Hans Freiherr von Türckheim in Karlsruhe and was in the same correspondence with a number of letters with stamps for six Kreuzers. The stamp is stuck on the lower left and canceled with a five-ring stamp "106" ( Orschweier ), which is transferred to the letter . At the top right there is a two-line box stamp "ORSCHWEIER 20.Jul.51". The distribution of the correspondence between the two post locations Ettenheim and Orschweier is explained by the location of the Türckheim family seat halfway between these locations. Orschweier had been on the Karlsruhe – Basel railway line since 1845 , while the larger Ettenheim had no rail connection. The letter has been in the possession of the Museum for Communication Berlin , the former Reichspostmuseum , for more than 100 years .
Piece of letter with number stamp 2 (Achern)
The third known copy of the misprint is on a tightly cut piece of letter. The stamp is slightly touched at the top and left, with full margins at the bottom and above the margin on the right. The five-ring postmark "2" ( Achern ) goes over to the piece of letter. Exact dating is not possible.
- Provenance
- Georg Koch, Giessen (stamp dealer)
- Gilbert & Köhler auction house 1908
- Private ownership (2016)
literature
- Carl Beck: Baden 9 Kreuzer green. The rarest misprint of old Germany. In: Basler Taube 1928, p. 38 f.
- HE: Baden, 9 Kr. Misprint. In: Illustrierte Briefmarken-Zeitung issue No. 11/1896, p. 95 f.
- G. Kabelitz: The Baden misprint. In: Briefmarken -berichte / Schmitz 1948, p. 164 f.
- Carl Kolb: The Baden misprint 9 Kreuzer green. In: Collectors Week No. 4/1925, p. 56 f. and No. 10, p. 150.
- Carl Lindenberg: Badische misprints. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung issue No. 9/1896, p. 132 ff.
- LN Williams: Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps. Volume 1 The Stories. Feldman, Geneva 1993, ISBN 0-89192-435-3 , pp. 81-83.
- LN Williams: Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps. Volume 2 The Biographies. Feldman, Geneva 1997, ISBN 2-9700125-1-0 , pp. 83-86.
- German stamp review issue 7/1990.
Some further literature sources are contained in the bibliography by M. Ullrich: Neue Baden-Bibliografie , ArGe Baden from 1994.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Auktionshaus Heinrich Köhler: 1st auction. The ERIVAN collection. Saturday 8th June 2019 . Wiesbaden, Auction House Heinrich Köhler 2019, digitized version (auction catalog).
- ↑ a b c A. Joerger: The classic Baden misprint . In: Circular No. 21/1956 of the working group of Baden-Spezialsammler in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV , Karlsruhe 1956, pp. 1-4, digitized .
- ↑ a b c Franz Stegmüller: Attest No. 06408, January 22, 2019 , accessed on June 9, 2019.
- ↑ philately issue No. 161/1985, p. 15
- ↑ Postage stamp auctioned for 1.26 million euros
- ↑ mak / dpa: stamp auctioned: misprint brings 1.26 million euros. In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.suppes.de/weltbedeutende-briefmarkenauktion-am-8-juni-in-wiesbaden/
- ^ Misprint on the website of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications
- ↑ a b After 113 years, the "Baden-Misprint" can be seen again in Heidelberg. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from June 14, 2016, accessed on June 9, 2019.
