The first service stamp for confidential official documents was issued on April 1, 1965. Below the coat of arms of the GDR, the number 20 was included, representing 20 Pfennig. The stamps were only vertically perforated. A reprint of the service stamp was also issued in 1965...
Stamps without a value indication were issued from August 10, 1963, by the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR as control stamps for mail shipments of the People's Police as well as for eighty companies that were members of the Association of People's Own Enterprises. The stamps had...
Two new 'values' appeared on January 2, 1958. The value was indicated by one or two horizontal lines on either side of the control number. One line equaled 10 Pfennig and two lines 20 Pfennig. The stamps were printed in...
After the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany entered into force on May 23, 1949, the postal services of the Allied occupiers continued to operate pending the establishment of the Deutsche Bundespost on April 1, 1950. But...
Every stamp collector encounters the perforation of stamps at some point. The collector knows that the perforation must be perfect. Not a single tooth may be missing, because otherwise the stamp has no collectible value. Or is that not entirely true? On...
As a collector of Canadian stamps, the 48-cent stamp issued on July 5, 2002, made me curious about the reason for this issuance. The old stamp, a postmark from a small town in Canada from 1902....
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