I have always found the DDR definitives difficult and have avoided them. Looking forward to your explanations. Don
Sounds like a good idea: a thread about the definitives of the DDR. Unfortunately I am not complete,missing two stamps and a number of the reprints,what were produced for export,with printed cancels only.
The 25 Pfg.-value shows on the right the "Adler" (eagle),the first locomotive in Germany. Set issued Dec.5th,1960.
I wanted to show some cancels, Note this interesting clock type in blue special delivery, Fast train type
Do you have all the frame numbers? I started to collect all the frame/vignette combos for C11 but threw in the towel fairly quickly.
No i have just started. My plan was to collected all the shifts positions used not used and on cover. Make an actual position number to help track how scarce the position actuality is. It will be a long process. I even thought about collecting a shifted cover from every state.
Sounds like a great project <Richard>. Keep us posted! (I am going to search mine for dramatic shifts, post if anything good.)
Richard: That first cover has a very nice Buffalo Pan American Exposition cancel from a Barry rectilinear machine. The clock-like cancel was used to record date and time of arrival, usually in business offices. It is not a postal device or cancel. The cancel you ask about from Sydney, Ohio, is a Doremus Type C cancel. Richard, I'm not a cancel expert. I, however, do find early cancels interesting and try to identify them for my cover write-ups. I use this and similar sites for identification: http://swansongrp.com/machtest/machine2.html#columbia Don
Left stamp shows the oldest existing original steam locomotive of the GDR,built in 1861. stamp issued Sept.13th,1977;from a set of 5;
A set of stamps from Great Britain,issued in 2010 celebrating Great British Railways and showing different classes of steam trains.