File:Maxicard 1985 GDR MiNr2953 pm B005a.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(786 × 1,112 pixels, file size: 462 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description

Maximum card of the German Democratic Republic; 1985; obverse of a commemorative maxicard (= postcard + stamp + first issue day and a special postmark to the same topic) to the series "Animals threatened with extinction"; postcard motive with a red-breasted goose (Branta ruficollis; German: "Rothalsgans"; Englishː "Red-breasted goose"); postcard franked with a stamp Michel No. 2953 from 1985 of the same same series, showing birds of this species; stamp postmarked with an one-circle special postmark from 1085 Berlin, with 40.0 mm diameter showing (probably) a Manchurian crane (Grus japonensis, German: "Mandschurenkranich") as central motive. According to the IUCN is this species one of the rarest cranes species in the world which is strong threatened with extinction.
Stamp: Michel: No. 2953; Yvert et Tellier: No. 2577; Scott: No. 2482
Color: multicolored on luminescent paper (stamp)
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 10 (Pfennig)

Postage validity: from 25 June 1985 until 2 October 1990
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1985-06-25T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1990-10-02T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 28.5 x 23.5 mm

Postmark: 1085 Berlin (Germany), , once-circle special postmark with 40.0 mm diameter
Date (first issue day of the stamp + date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author

K.Rudloff, photograph from the Tierpark Berlin
"Ministerium für Post und Fernmeldewesen" of the German Democratic Republic (stamp + postmark + maxicard publisher)

"Verlag Bild und Heimat", Reichenbach (Vogtland) (producer and printery of the postcard)"
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This file is most likely NOT in the public domain. It has been marked for review, and will be deleted in due course if the review does not find it to be in the public domain.

This file was previously considered to be in the public domain as a German stamp; it is possible that it is in the public domain for other reasons, in which case a new rationale will be applied as part of the review process. See below for the previous rationale.
Previous public domain rationale, no longer applicable
Public domain
This stamp is in the public domain in Germany because it was released by the postal administration of the German Democratic Republic or the Soviet occupation zone (Deutschen Post der DDR) whose legal successor is the Federal Republic of Germany. Thus it is an official work according to German copyright law (§ 5 Abs. 1 UrhG).

Boarisch | Deutsch | English | suomi | македонски | Türkçe | 中文（简体） | +/−


Other versions
Picture description Branta ruficollis (stamp + postcard)

Manchurian crane (postmark)

First day of issue
Publisher "Ministerium für Post und Fernmeldewesen" of the German Democratic Republic
Design Andrea Soest (stamp)
Printer "Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei", Leipzig (stamp)
Printing technique Photogravure
Circulation 24,000,000 (in sheets à 50 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 14
MICHEL Nr. Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Nr. 2953 (stamp)
SCOTT Nr. German Democratic Republic, No. 24832(stamp)

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:54, 7 April 2019Thumbnail for version as of 16:54, 7 April 2019786 × 1,112 (462 KB)Katharinaiv (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Maximum card of the German Democratic Republic; 1985; obverse of a commemorative maxicard (= postcard + stamp + first issue day and a special postmark to the same topic) to the series "Animals threatened with extinction"; postcard motive with a red-breasted goose (''Branta ruficollis''; German: "Rothalsgans"; Englishː "Red-breasted goose"); postcard franked with a stamp Michel No. 2953 from 1985 of the same sam...

You cannot overwrite this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Maxicard_1985_GDR_MiNr2953_pm_B005a.jpg&oldid=738896102"