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Postcard of the German Empire; 1889; Postcard from Hamburg (Northern Germany) to Crimmitschau (Saxony); Postcard is franked with a definitive stamp Michel No. 40 from 1880 (color: lilac (not purple)); currency without final "e"; stamp postmarked with an one-circle daily cancellation with 27 mm diameter from Hamburg 8,
Stamp: Michel No. 40; Yvert & Tellier: No. 37; Scott: No. 38
Color: violet
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 5 Pfennig

Postage validity: from 1880 until 31 January 1891
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1891-01-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp): 18.5 x 21.0 mm

Postmark: Hamburg 8, , one-circle, dayly cancellation with 27 mm diameter
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Author "Deutsche Reichspost"
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Picture description Number drawing in standing oval
First day of issue
Publisher "Deutsche Reichspost"
Design H.G.Schilling (dead 1877, by profession "engraver", German: "Stempelschneider")
Printer "Reichsdruckerei", Berlin
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13½ : 14¼
MICHEL Nr. Deutsches Reich, Nr. 40
SCOTT Nr. German Empire, No. 38

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