File:Ganzsache Metz 1887 B002b.jpg

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English: Postal stationary card with imprinted stamp of the German Empire (Michel No. 40, 5 Pfennig, violet) from 1880, numeric in oval with imperial German crown
("Deutsche Reichspost" in Alsace-Lorraine)

Nominal value: 5 PFENNIG (without "....E")

Postage validity: from 1 January 1880 until 31 January 1891
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1880-01-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1891-01-31T00:00:00Z/11

Postmark: Metz,

real posted from Metz (Alsace-Lorraine) to Rabenau (Saxony)
Date (date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author Deutsche Reichspost
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Public domain This work of bildende Kunst (visual art) or photography was published in Germany before the Law on Copyrights and Neighboring Rights (UrhG) came into effect on January 1, 1966. It does not indicate its author and was published by a legal entity under public law (§ 5 KUG; for details see Wikipedia:Bildrechte). Therefore according to § 134 Satz 2 UrhG, copyright expires 70 years after publishing.

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  • The same drawing as mint stamp (Mi-No. 40)
    The same drawing as mint stamp (Mi-No. 40)
  • The same drawing as stamp (Mi-No. 40)
    The same drawing as stamp (Mi-No. 40)
Picture description numeric in oval with imperial German crown; drawing from 1875 with currency specification "PFENNIG" (without "...E")
First day of issue 1880
Publisher Deutsche Reichspost
Design Heinrich Gustav Schilling
Printer Reichsdruckerei Berlin
Printing technique letterpress
Circulation ?
Perforation none (postal stationary)
MICHEL Nr. Deutsches Reich No. 40 - Ganzsache
English: Alsace-Lorraine (Elsaß-Lothringen) was a part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.

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