I cant help but need to note the color which looks wine red above- I know your Michel and Scott may say red but the SG New Zealand Specialized and Campbell Paterson’s Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps state it is scarlet as shown below Also dates are 1935 13.5X14, 1936 13.5X14, 1941 12.5, 1942 14.5X14
That New Zealand 6p red above reminded me of the Canadian 20c red from the 1928-29 Geo V "Scroll" definitive series. Don
Combine-Harvester from the Five-Year-Plan definitives set of 18. upper: lithograph-print,issued Aug.10th,1953 lower: typograph-print,issued Nov.21st,1953 Of both issues exist reprints from 1957,with a printed cancellation only.
issued Sept.3rd,1955,from a set of 3; The "Bodenreform" in the Soviet-Occupied-Zone,what later should become the GDR (DDR),was carried out in 1945/46. All landowners who owned more than 100 hectares and all war-criminals and "active Nazis" were expropriated without compensation. Mainly it hit the properties of the former nobility.Some of them had huge holdings,exceeding 10.000 hectares.Including land in public ownership,all in all about 3.3 milliones hectares were given toabout 650.000 new owners.From the eastern parts of the Reich expelled people and small farmers,as well as part-time farmers benefitted from the reform. It made the communist regime very popular.However they undid their success,when forcing the farmers to join collectives,the LPG s (Agricultural Production Cooperatives) in the 1960th. Also in Western-Germany ther was a kind of "Bodenreform",but the former owners were compensated.
