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Stamp of Memelland 1922; definitive stamp of France of the issue "Semeuse fond plein sans sol" with twofold, black overprints (fourfold lines + single lines) "fess + fess / MEMEL / 20 / Pfennig" + "Mark" over "Pfennig"; "MEMEL", "Pfennig" and "Mark" in italic Latin characters with serifes; non-striped background without sun
Stamp: Michel No. 109 (= Michel Memel No. 56 (1922) with overprint (= Michel France No. 118x with overprint)); Yvert & Tellier: No. 80 (KL); AFA: No. 108 (KL)
Color: lilac brown with black overprints
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 20 Mark on 20 Pfennig on 20 Centimes

Postage validity: from 22 October 1922 until 31 March 1923
date QS:P,+1922-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1922-10-22T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1923-03-31T00:00:00Z/11
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the High Commission of the League of Nations (Memel Territory)
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The author died in 1911, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Picture description Sowing woman (seederess, semeuse) with twofold overprint, non-striped background without sun
First day of issue (Memel stamp, second overprint)

(Memel stamp, first overprint)
(original stamp in France)

Publisher Postal administration of the High Commission of the League of Nations (Memel Territory)
Design
Louis-Oscar Roty  (1846–1911)  wikidata:Q2621732
 
Louis-Oscar Roty
Alternative names
Oscar Roty; Louis Oskar Roty
Description French medal engraver
Date of birth/death 12 June 1846 Edit this at Wikidata 23 March 1911 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2621732
Printer Imprimerie française des timbres-poste, Paris (original stamp + both overprints)
Printing technique letterpress printing
Circulation 400,000
Perforation comb perforation, K 14 : 13½
MICHEL Nr. Memel, Nr. 109

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