Stamp 1989 GDR MiNr3226 pm B002
Summary
Stamp of the German Democratic Republic; 1990; commemorative stamp of the issue "Technical Monuments - Old Telephones"; issue of 4 stamps and 1 se-tenant à these 4 stamps and 1 block; The depicted stamp is GDR Michel No. 3226 from 1989 with the central motive of a "Telephone apparatus" from 1861 by Philipp Reis (1834-1874); This stamp was postmarked with an one-line first-day special circle segement (staying) with 35.0 mm width and 40.0 mm high special cancellation from 1085 Berlin, 7 February 1989 showing a table telephone from the 1890s/1900s (a so-called "Magnetos" = a telephone with a hand-cranked electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce alternating current from a rotating armature) as central motive.
Stamp: Michel: No. 3226; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2832; Scott: No. 2725
Color: multicolored on gray background
Wattermark: none
Nominal value: 10 (Pfennig)
Postage validity: from 7 February 1989 until 2 October 1990 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1989-02-07T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1990-10-02T00:00:00Z/11
Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 29.0 x 33.5 mm
Postmark: 1085 Berlin, 7 February 1989