Another day, another stamp exchange. This time the mailman brough an exchange cover from Berlin, Germany. Klaus sent me a cover containing 200 different East German (DDR) stamps. To my pleasure a notable proportion of them were real used.
Published on January 11th 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
During the Christmas season and New Year I did have a blast with German definitive stamps. Very likely one of the most notorious of these is the Five-year-plan (“5-J-Pl.”) issues of German Democratic Republic (more commonly know as East Germany or DDR) which shows “the common men and woman at work”. Despite of rather short lifespan it is without a doubt one of the most dreaded and complex definitive stamp series ever. The first issue came out in August 1953, the last seventh issue in 1959; and the stamps became invalid in 1962.
Published on January 2nd 2010 | Read more.... | 6 Comments »
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