File:DE-SBZ-WSA 1946 MiNr0164BY mt B002a.jpg

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Stamp of Germany; 1946; commemorative stamp with charity surcharge of the issue to the Leipzig Trade Fair 1946 as issue for the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany - Western Saxony (= former area of the "Oberpostdirektion Leipzig"); drawed "Altes Rathaus" in Leipzig; imperforate; mint; covering smooth gum
Stamp: Michel: No. 164BY (SOZ-West-Sachsen); Yvert & Tellier: No. 43 V1 (DD-SOC)
Color: brown orange
Watermark: Germany (Soviet Zone), No. 1Y (stages, falling to left, seen from the backside of the stamp) (= type "Y")
Nominal value: 24+ 26 (Pfennig) (26 Pfennig as surcharge)

Postage validity: from 20 May 1946 until 31 October 1946
date QS:P,+1946-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P580,+1946-05-20T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1946-10-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size: 20.5 x 27.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
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Author "Deutsche Post - Postdirektion für West-Sachsen" under supervision of the Allied Control Authority - Soviet Zone
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Previous public domain rationale, no longer applicable
Public domain This stamp is in the public domain in Germany because it was released by a postal administration of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany whose legal successor is the Federal Republic of Germany. Thus it is an official work according to German copyright law (§ 5 Abs. 1 UrhG).

Diese Briefmarke wurde in Deutschland zwischen 1945 und 1949 von der alliierten Verwaltung in einer Besatzungszone herausgegeben. Rechtsnachfolgerin ist die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Als amtliches Werk ist sie nach § 5 Abs. 1 des deutschen Urheberrechtsgesetzes gemeinfrei.

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Picture description "Altes Rathaus" in Leipzig (drawing)
First day of issue
Publisher "Deutsche Post - Postdirektion für West-Sachsen" under supervision of the Allied Control Authority - Soviet Zone
Design ?
Printer printery "Giesecke & Devrient", Leipzig
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation 510,000 (imperforate stamps of Michel No. 164, all watermarks)
Perforation none (imperforate) (= typer "B")
MICHEL Nr. Deutschland (Sowjetische Zone - West-Sachsen), Nr. 164BY

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