It is the highest value of a serie of 4 stamps issued at august 28th 1990.
500 Jahre internationale Postverbindungen in Europa
500 years of international postal connections in Europe
And if I am not wrong
Postage stamps issued from July 2, 1990 by Deutsche Post were also valid in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin until December 31, 1990.
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re: Germany 1990 - Got Me Stumped!
" ... Postage stamps issued from July 2, 1990 by Deutsche Post were also valid in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin until December 31, 1990...."
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Now there would be a challenge. A mint set. Three postally used sets showing a cancel of the three jurisdictions, DDR, West Berlin and West Germany. Maybe four sets, splitting DDR into East B
erlin by cancel and somewhere else in the DDR itself. I am not planning on deep pursuit, but I will keep a weather eye out for some examples.
Charlie
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"Now there would be a challenge. A mint set. Three postally used sets showing a cancel of the three jurisdictions, DDR, West Berlin and West Germany. Maybe four sets, splitting DDR into East Berlin by cancel and somewhere else in the DDR itself. I am not planning on deep pursuit, but I will keep a weather eye out for some examples.
Charlie"
That is the fun of collection stamps..............
By the way : the other way around too :
From July 1, 1990, the issues of the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Bundespost Berlin were also valid in the German Democratic Republic.
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