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Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1990 - 70 Pfennig


CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1990
Face Value 70.00 
Colorbrown
PerforationK 13:12 1/2
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number3098
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID302798
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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. The Prussian passenger post on the 70-pfennig value also makes a very modest impression. The porcelain painting on a Meissen cup from 1750 served as a model for this drawing. The car body of this Prussian passenger coach is made of wicker, it has neither door nor hood and rests directly, d. H. without suspension, on the two axles. The bench in the front of the car is suspended by two pairs of straps. This should be intercepted shocks that absorbs the suspension in the later modern cars. The car is manned by three people, a young girl and an old pipe-smoking officer on the bench, and a businessman between mail pieces in the back of the car. The Postillion carried out the team from the saddle. The illustration on the left in the brand image shows a three-wheeled carriage from 1595. With improved wagons, developed land routes, higher travel speeds and a greater number of regularly served connections, the traffic with the stagecoach in the first half of the 19th century reached its peak. At the same time, however, a new means of transport was already emerging, which outstripped the stagecoach by a multiple of speed and efficiency: the railway. This new means of transport became very popular and was soon used for the carriage of letters and other mail. While initially simply the coach of the stagecoach was lifted on a railway car, one went after a short time already to set up specially arranged for the mail carriage railway cars - the so-called railway mail cars - in which the post could even be processed during the promotion.

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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. The Prussian passenger post on the 70-pfennig value also makes a very modest impression. The porcelain painting on a Meissen cup from 1750 served as a model for this drawing. The car body of this Prussian passenger coach is made of wicker, it has neither door nor hood and rests directly, d. H. without suspension, on the two axles. The bench in the front of the car is suspended by two pairs of straps. This should be intercepted shocks that absorbs the suspension in the later modern cars. The car is manned by three people, a young girl and an old pipe-smoking officer on the bench, and a businessman between mail pieces in the back of the car. The Postillion carried out the team from the saddle. The illustration on the left in the brand image shows a three-wheeled carriage from 1595. With improved wagons, developed land routes, higher travel speeds and a greater number of regularly served connections, the traffic with the stagecoach in the first half of the 19th century reached its peak. At the same time, however, a new means of transport was already emerging, which outstripped the stagecoach by a multiple of speed and efficiency: the railway. This new means of transport became very popular and was soon used for the carriage of letters and other mail. While initially simply the coach of the stagecoach was lifted on a railway car, one went after a short time already to set up specially arranged for the mail carriage railway cars - the so-called railway mail cars - in which the post could even be processed during the promotion..