Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1990 - 50 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 28th of August to 27th of October 1990 After the small mail rider of Albrecht Dürer, who made 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 postal service, the German Post lays 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. On the 50-pfennig value again the Kleine Kurier or the postreiterlein after the copperplate engraving by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Originated in 1496, this messenger representation, as the work of a contemporary witness to the founding of the postal service 500 years ago, has the greatest originality. The illustration with the mailman and the messenger was attached to a printed newspaper from the year 1590, "The Post Both I Am, and my journeys have been confessed. , A collection of this newspaper belonged to the collection of the former Reichspostmuseum.The increasing quantity of goods and persons to be mobbed soon necessitated the use of carriages, which had at first almost completely disappeared from the ruin of the Roman empire on our territory At first, comfort left much to be desired, which made travel difficult, and famous writers of his day described this martyrdom and did not spare it with ridicule.