Mi.540-543 (30.06.1934) Colony Memorial Celebration
Collectors cover sent by stamp dealer Nordisk-Mueller in Diessen am Ammersee to a printer in Aue, Saxony. The cover features Mi.540-543, stamps first issued on 30th June 1934 for the Colony Memorial Celebration. With depictions of colonial explorers Franz A. E. Lüderitz (Mi.540), Dr. Gustav Nachtigal (Mi.541), Dr. Karl Peters (Mi.542), and Herman von Wissmann (Mi.543). To the reverse is printed the motto, 'Die Philatelie ist das Sport-gebiet des geistig Arbeitenden' (Philately is the sports field of the intellectual worker). Ref: 13.09.1934 - 15/54
Mi.540 - 543
German Coloniser's Jubilee
(issued alongside the 'Memorial Festival of the Lost Colonies')
Date of issue (and valid till): 30th June 1934 (31st December 1935)
Designed by: ? - Engravings taken from photographs supplied by the 'Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft' (German Colonial Society)
Printer & Process: ? & Letterpress on coated paper (Michel); Typographical on surfaced paper (Harper)
Perforation & Watermark: 13 x 13¾ (Michel); 13¼ x 13¾ (Harper). Swastika
Nordisk-Mueller
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