Heads of famous Germans

Heads of Famous Germans was a permanent series of stamps issued by the Deutsche Reichspost on November 1, 1926 ; a supplementary value followed in 1927 . On October 10, 1927, at the meeting of the International Labor Office in Berlin, three values ​​were provided with a two-line label ("IAA / October 10–15 , 1927 ") and issued as a special temporary edition .

Printing process and validity

The stamps were made in the letterpress process on coated paper with the watermark 2 waffles , the comb perforation is 14:14 1/4. There is no reliable information on the circulation of definitive stamps.

The 13 definitive stamps were valid until June 30, 1933, the three special stamps from October 10, 1927 only until November 30, 1927.

In order to prevent the misuse of the trademarks, authorities and companies were allowed to punch holes in the acquired trademarks .

List of brands

Definitive stamps

image	Value in pennies	person	particularities	Michel no.
	3	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	dark brown	385
	3	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	dull brown	386
	5	Friedrich Schiller	green	387
	5	Friedrich Schiller	yellowish green	388
	8th	Ludwig van Beethoven		389
	10	Frederick the Great		390
	15th	Immanuel Kant		391
	20th	Ludwig van Beethoven		392
	25th	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		393
	30th	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing		394
	40	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz		395
	50	Johann Sebastian Bach		396
	80	Albrecht Dürer		397

Special auxiliary edition

image	Value in pennies	person	particularities	Michel no.
	8th	Ludwig van Beethoven		407 → 389
	15th	Immanuel Kant		408 → 391
	25th	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		409 → 393

literature

• Michel catalog

Web links

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