Historic seal

Historic Seal is the title of a series of stamps that were issued by the GDR 's Deutsche Post in 1984 and 1988 .

The description of Michel number 3156 in the Fraktur font has a flaw in its execution: the “ long s ” and the “round s” were mixed up.

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.
• 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.

image	description	value	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Historical seal (I) The following four stamps were issued as a composite in a block of four: Seal of the Baker of Berlin (1442)	5	7th August 1984	3,500,000	Ekkehart Haller	2884
	Seal of the wool weavers of Berlin (1442)	10	7th August 1984	3,500,000	Ekkehart Haller	2885
	Seal of the wool weavers of Cölln on the Spree (1442)	20th	7th August 1984	3,500,000	Ekkehart Haller	2885
	Seal of the cobblers of Cölln on the Spree (1442)	35	7th August 1984	3,500,000	Ekkehart Haller	2887
	Historical seal (II) The following four stamps were also issued as a composite in a block of four: Seal of the saddlers of Mühlhausen (1565)	10	March 22, 1988	26,300,000	Bobbe	3156
	Seal of the butchers of Dresden (1564)	25th	March 22, 1988	5,800,000	Bobbe	3157
	Seal of the forge of Nauen (16th century)	35	March 22, 1988	5,800,000	Bobbe	3158
	Seal of the cloth makers of Frankfurt (Oder) (16th century)	50	March 22, 1988	4,400,000	Bobbe	3159

Overprints

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  Historical seal (I)

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  Historical seal (II)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Tichatzky: Colorful GDR stamp world. Viewed through a magnifying glass . Eulenspiegel Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-359-02297-8 , page 69: The “long s” and the “round s” .
2. ^ Quote from the Michel catalog: ... "Mühlhausen" was incorrectly written with a final instead of a long s .

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000 , Schwaneberger Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2
• GDR universal catalog; Edited by Peter Fischer, Frithjof Skupin and Wolfgang Gudenschwager; Publisher: Transpress, Verlag für Verkehrwesen ISBN 3-344-00001-2

Web links

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