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Catalogue information

LastDodo number
9077041
Area
Stamps
Title
building series
Face value
25
Country / area
Allied Occupation - Germany [American and british zone]
Year
1948
Month
10
Day
Issue group
1948 Historic Buildings
Order Number in Issue group
15
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Basic colour
Red
Exact colour
Bright orange red, Dark vermilion, Orange red
Theme / topic
Architecture, Buildings, Churches and cathedrals, Gothic, History, Religion, Towers, UNESCO
Geographical theme
Cologne
Persons theme
Bueren, Nikolaus van [1380-1445], Everdingen, Andreas von [est.?-<1412], Franckenberg, Johann Kuene van [1466-1491], Meister Arnold [?-1308], Rile, Gerhard von [1215-1271], Savoyen, Michael von [1320-1387], Voigtel, Karl Eduard Richard [1829-1902], Zwirner, Ernst Friedrich [1802-1861]
Item subject
Cologne Cathedral (Dom St. Peter und Maria), the Gothic cathedral in the center of the German city of Cologne
Michel number
87 II W B
Yvert number
55
Scott number
648
Stanley Gibbons number
A122
Designer/Engraver
Bittrof, Max [1890-1972]
Printing office
Bagel Security-Print [Monchengladbach, Germany] (BSP)
Perforation
Line perforation 11
Watermark
DP and stripes
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Offset
Paper
Gum
Water-activated gum (Lick & Stick, Wet adhesive)
Print run
73.229.700
Dimensions / diameter
21,5 x 26 mm
Details

Type II: 4 front portal steps. 3 window turrets (4th turret indicated); side aisle roof far hatched. Without threshold at the side portal. Bottom step interrupted on the left.

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