Stamp Collecting Stamps

This is a famous stamp issued by Monaco in 1947, showing FDR with his stamp collection. Note the design error - his hand at the right has five fingers plus a thumb !

 

Is this stamp collecting stamp or Philatelic advertising??Maybe BIRDS!

 

issued Oct.26th,1952

 

1st central stamp-exhibition of the "Betriebsarbeitsgemeinschaften"
Philatlie in Berlin.Issued Oct.30th,1954.Print: 500.000.

The "Betriebsarbeitsgemeinschaften" or BAG was the central
organization of stamp-clubs in the DDR (GDR).
Stamp collecting was organized on a company-level.
Such social activities in companies fostered the "we-feeling" of
employees.
One has to remember that all companies were "volkseigen" (owned
by the people).So the workers were kind of self-employed.
At least in theory.In the West it was called: state-owned.
In West-Germany big companies,like Volkswagen,were state-owned.
Later they were privatized and became joint-stock companies.
One of the last privatized ones was the Deutsche Bundespost,after
splitted into three parts,Telecom,Post-Bank and "Yellow" Post,now
Deutsche Post AG.
A very successful worldwide enterprise with more than 500.000 employees,less than half of them in Germany.