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Design: Unknown Perforation: L 12
The Ministry of the Armed Forces issued registration stamps for the parcel and package service of military personnel for parcels up to 2 kg.
| Mi M2 (No Value) | brown / yellow | 100,000 issued |
Sheets
Stamps were printed in sheets of 100 stamps.
Perforations
Left: Vertically imperforated pair
Right: Imperforated pair
Varieties and errors
Left:Yellow phase print
Right:Double print
Left: Printed on the back side
Right: Abklatch
Left: Ink bleeding, imperforated
Right: Double print, imperforated
Minister albums
There are no Minister albums, but special envelopes were produced for these stamps and distributed to high-ranking individuals. Inside them are imperforated, horizontally and vertically imperforated stamps and also stamps with the red overprint ‘Feldpost’.
This issue has double printed perforated and imperforated stamps and also stamps without the yellow background on the normal ordinary paper and also on the thick carton paper. This yellow background also deteced moved up or down on the both perforate and imperforated stamps.
Although there is a certain number of cancelled stamps from this and previous issue, there is a doubt if any of those Military stamps were actually used on any military Field post letters.
Feldpost overprint
Stamps with the red overprint “Feldpost” exist with a double, inverted, tete beche overprint and also pairs of stamps with and without overprints. There are also stamps with blured red color on the stamp probably because of an error where red color of Feldpost overprint was spilled on the stamp.
The reason for the existence and possible use of stamps with the Feldpost overprint is unknown.
Left: Inverted overprint
Right: Double inverted tebeche Feldpost overprint
Left:Overprint ink bleeding
Right: Double feldpost overprint, one applied vertically
