Postage stamps from 1902 issued by the Deutsche Reichspost

The 1902 stamp year of the Deutsche Reichspost comprised fifteen stamps. Ten definitive stamps from the Germania series and five stamps from the Representative Representations of the German Empire series with five stamps with four motifs (in the current year 1902 the design of the stamp was slightly changed to 2 marks).

As a definitive stamp series, the five lower values ​​of Germania were also used on postal stationery as a value stamp for postcards , card letters and pneumatic mail envelopes .

Before the stamps with the inscription Deutsches Reich there were the series with the inscription Reichspost , these were valid until December 31, 1902.

Notes: The fees for the mail between January 1, 1875 and June 30, 1906 were:

• Postcards: 5 pfennigs
• Long-distance letters: 10 pfennigs (up to 20 g) and 20 pfennigs (up to 250 g)
• Registered mail: 20 pfennigs
• Return receipt: 20 pfennigs

To classify the remaining purchasing power at the time, see article: Goldmark .

List of issues and motives

Legend

• Image: An edited image of the brand mentioned. The ratio of the size of the stamps to each other is shown approximately to scale in this article.
• Description: A brief description of the motif and / or the reason for the issue. In the case of issued series or blocks , the descriptions that belong together are indented with a marker.
• Value: The face value of the individual stamp in pfennigs . A "+" means that it is an additional stamp (= postage value + donation).
• Issue Date: The date this stamp was first sold.
• Valid To: The date on which the validity ended.
• Edition: As far as known, the number of this edition offered for sale is given here.
• Design: As far as is known, it is stated here who designed this brand.
• Mi.-No .: This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1902)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Definitive series: Germania	2	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	68
		3	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	69
		5	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	70
		10	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	71
		20th	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	72
		25th	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	73
		30th	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	74
		40	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	75
		50	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	76
		80	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Paul Eduard Waldraff	77
	Definitive series: Representative representations of the German Empire Reich Post Office in Berlin	1 mark	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	C. Frenzel	78
	Symbolic representations of north and south Detail from the painting Victoria by Anton von Werner	2 marks	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	W. Lipinsky	79
	Unveiling of the Kaiser Wilhelm I monument in Berlin, based on a painting by W. Pape	3 marks	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Reichsdruckerei	80
	Commemoration of the founding of the empire in the white hall of the Berlin Palace , based on a painting by W. Pape	5 marks	April 1st	October 31, 1922	unknown	Reichsdruckerei	81
	Symbolic representations of north and south Detail from the painting Victoria by Anton von Werner	2 marks	May 24th	October 31, 1922	unknown	W. Lipinsky	82

literature

• Michel catalog
  • Germany special
  • Letters catalog Germany
  • Postal stationery catalog Germany
• Andreas Hahn: Simple and gripping - the post horn series and the earlier stamp design of the Deutsche Bundespost , in Das Archiv , Ed .: DGPT 1/2009, p. 22 ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michel Germany Special 1999, p. 320
2. ↑ The Germania stamps of the year 1902 are identical to the stamps from 1905 except for the watermark (1902: no WZ, from 1905 WZ diamonds ). Some of the images here are therefore also taken from the series from 1905 onwards, as the image content is identical.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The brands MiNr. 79 and 82 differ in the shape of the rays (79: rays departing from the center and 82: horizontal lines similar to hatching) and in the font family used (78: Gothic letters and 82: Latin letters)

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