Gscheidle brand

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The Gscheidle stamp is an unofficial postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost from 1980, of which only a few copies came into circulation and which is therefore one of the most valuable and coveted stamps internationally. It is named after the then Post Minister Kurt Gscheidle or after his wife, who had mistakenly used the stamps for franking.

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The Gscheidle stamp was supposed to be issued by the Deutsche Bundespost on April 10, 1980 on the occasion of the Moscow Olympic Games , but was withdrawn beforehand due to the German boycott of the Games . The stamp never became an official postage stamp, the already completed production was officially destroyed. Some stamps from the three sheets that had been forwarded to the then Minister of Post, Kurt Gscheidle, came into circulation due to an error made by Gscheidle's wife Elisabeth. In 1982 and 1983, she and her son used at least 24 copies that Elisabeth Gscheidle had found in the desk of her husband, who was divorced from work, and mistaken for official postage stamps, to frank private mail (so-called Gscheidle error ). These brands were soon traded at top prices among philatelists . They are among the most valuable German postage stamps after 1945. At the 102nd auction of Joachim Erhardt by the Württemberg auction house in Stuttgart on April 25th and 26th, 2008, a copy on a whole , a letter, was auctioned for 82,000 EUR. The same auction house under Joachim Erhardt had already auctioned this letter with this stamp for 67,000 EUR at the 100th auction. It was also reported that a postcard with this stamp was auctioned for EUR 85,000 in 2008. It cannot be ruled out that it is one and the same brand, as the surcharges (82,000 EUR and 85,000 EUR) are similar and the terms “letter” and “postcard” were sometimes confused. A Gscheidle stamp was auctioned in Düsseldorf in October 2010 for 26,000 euros. One of the stamps on postal stationery was auctioned in May 2013 in the Swiss auction house Rapp for 53,680 Swiss francs (equivalent to 43,000 euros) in Wil .

Appearance of the brand

The motif of the surcharge “For Sport” at 60 Pfennig plus 30 Pfennig surcharge in favor of Sporthilfe is a waving Olympic flag ( Michel catalog no. XIII). The degree of perforation is 14.

Official notification

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Print piece 'Olympic flag 1980' The publication of the (...) print piece ' For sport' at 60 + 30 pfennigs with a depiction of the Olympic flag was planned for April 10, 1980 ; however, because of the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, it was waived. The printed piece is therefore not a postage stamp in the sense of the law.
In the meantime, several stamped printed copies 'Olympic flag 1980' have appeared and traded on the philatelic market. The ownership of the Deutsche Bundespost continues to exist on all printed matter. In the case of the previously traded - stamped - copies, ownership has not been claimed. The Deutsche Bundespost will take all necessary measures to regain their property in the case of the 'Olympic flag 1980' being offered in the future. "

- Order 566/1984 : Official Gazette of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications; Bonn; No. 80; July 5, 1984, p. 928

Known copies

So far, 24 copies of the brand are known. 20 of them are loose or on pieces of letters, three are still on letters, and there is a competition postcard on which Ms. Gscheidle can be identified as the sender.

Trivia

The episode “Stamped” from the SOKO Stuttgart crime series refers to the Gscheidle brands. This stamp also appears in the plot of the crime series Der Bulle von Tölz , episode “ The Magician in the Well ” .

See also

literature

  • Elisabeth Gscheidle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1983, p. 238 ( online - May 16, 1983 , short message in the personal data section).
  • Einar Koch: Gscheidle under serious suspicion. ( Memento of July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt 36 (June 30, 1983), No. 149, p. 1
  • The Gscheidle Olympic stamp from the Bonn Federal Post Office. In: Collector Express , issue 21/1983, page 728

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welt Print from June 7th, 2008 ("'Gscheidle'-mark: Long hunt for a rare piece" by Jan Billion)
  2. ↑ Börse Online, No. 30/2008, p. 26
  3. ↑ Record surcharge for the Gscheidle stamp ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Felzmann auction house, Düsseldorf  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.felzmann.de
  4. ^ The postage stamp that is not allowed by Werner Breunig in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 27, 2013
  5. ^ 4 cents become 65,880 francs in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 30, 2013
  6. ↑ Gscheidle stamp auctioned: Minister-wife sends rarity for 43,000 euros by Georg Thanscheidt in the Münchner Abendzeitung on May 30, 2013