Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1990 - 30 Pfennig

500 years of postal service The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the GDR publishes four multicolored special postage stamps "500 years postal service". Special cancellation from August 28th to October 27th, 1990 After the small postal service of Albrecht Dürer, which formed the template for a motive postal stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany, West Berlin, Austria, Belgium and the GDR on the occasion of the anniversary 500 years post websen, puts the German Post now a second edition for the same occasion. The illustrations on the four stamps show historical means of transport, from messenger to rider and coach to railway mail cart. The messenger representations at the 30-pfennig value are older than 500 years. They point out that there has been a developed postal system even before the date of constitution of a state-organized post office. This was organized by the needy, ie the empire, the emerging cities, the merchants, guilds, monasteries, universities, in short by all who had to carry news, and ultimately only by the breast shield with the imperial eagle, who called him Bearer of an imperial message. As a template, the reproduction of a sheet was used by the respective operators. The messenger in the left part of the stamp carries a heraldic court card game made in the year 1450 from the Ambraser collection in Vienna. In the right part, the depiction of a postman from the year 1486 after the so-called Melusinenhandschrift from the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. The messenger hands over a message to Count Raimund and his wife in the castle of Lusinia (Lusignan). The messenger's head is covered to the face. He has a shield on his chest, but the drawing is not recognizable.