File:SUI 1882 MiNr0050 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Switzerland, 1882; definitive stamp of the issue "Swiss cross over value plate"; stamp postmarked in Basel, 1904
Stamp: Michel: No. 50; Yvert et Tellier: No. 63; AFA: No. 63
Color: olive brown to brown on white paper with silver strands (filaments) (on the backside clearly recognizable)
Watermark: Switzerland No. 1 - type 1 ("Kontrollzeichen 1")
Nominal value': 2 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from 1 April 1882 until 31 December 1924
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1882-04-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1924-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 18.5 x 22.0 mm

Postmark: Basel,
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Author "Schweizerische Bundespost"
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  • To the differences at watermark Switzerland No. 1
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  • The same stamp as mint stamp (Michel No. 50, probably, watermark?)
    The same stamp as mint stamp (Michel No. 50, probably, watermark?)
Picture description Swiss cross over value plate
First day of issue
Publisher "Schweizerische Bundespost"
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Eidgenössische Münzstätte" (= "The Federal Mint"), Berne
Printing technique Letterpress printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 50

Note:
To this stamp ("Cross over value plate" - 2 Rappen - brown) are distinguished in the philaletic literature four different issues (variants):

a) 1882, olive brown to brown on normal, white paper, perforation: comb perforation, K 11¾; Watermark 1 ("cross-in-oval" - type 1 ("Kontrollzeichen 1")) (= Michel No. 45),
b) 1882, how a) but on white paper with silver strands (filaments) and watermark 1 - type 1 ("Kontrollzeichen 1") (= Michel No. 50),
c) 1894, how a) but on white paper with silver strands (filaments) and watermark 1 - type 2 ("Kontrollzeichen 2") (= Michel No. 50Y)", and
d) 1906, how a) but on white paper with silver strands (filaments) and watermark 2 (multiple Swiss crosses) (= Michel No. 82)

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