File:DR 1900 GS MiNr055 pmLünen B002a.jpg

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Postal Stationary Card (PSC) from the German Empire; 1900; PSC in the so-called "century design" with definitive stamp of the Germania issue from 1900; postmarked in LÜNEN / 1.1.00 12-1N
Stamp (imprinted): Michel: No. 55; Yvert & Tellier: No. 53; AFA: No. 55 ; Scott: No. 54
Color: green to dark green
Nominal value: 5 (Pfennig)

Postage validity: from 1 January 1900 until 31 December 1902
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1900-01-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1902-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Postmark: Lünen, (two-circle postmark with through date fess; medium size; 16 mm outer circle)
Receiver address: Lünen (then: "Kingdom of Prussia - Provinz Westfalen - Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg - Landkreis Dortmund"; contemporary: Northrhine-Westphalia), Bäckerstraße 273/274

Stamp picture size (imprinted stamp without surrounding design): 18.5 x 22 mm
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(first issue day of the postal stationary)
(date of postmark)

(text on postcard revers)
Source scan of original
Author Deutsche Reichspost
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Public domain This work of bildende Kunst (visual art) or photography was published in Germany before the Law on Copyrights and Neighboring Rights (UrhG) came into effect on January 1, 1966. It does not indicate its author and was published by a legal entity under public law (§ 5 KUG; for details see Wikipedia:Bildrechte). Therefore according to § 134 Satz 2 UrhG, copyright expires 70 years after publishing.

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Picture description The actress Anna Führing as Germania
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Publisher Deutsche Reichspost
Design
Paul Waldraff  (1870–1917)  wikidata:Q1316547
 
Alternative names
Paul Eduard Waldraff
Description German graphic designer and postage stamp designer
Deutsch: deutscher Grafiker der Reichsdruckerei in Berlin, Entwerfer der Germania-Briefmarkenserie.
Date of birth/death 16 July 1870 Edit this at Wikidata 2 June 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Bad Wurzach
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q1316547
Printer Reichsdruckerei Berlin
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation ?
Perforation none (imprinted stamp)
MICHEL Nr. Deutsches Reich, Nr. 55
SCOTT Nr. Germany (German Empire), No. 54

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