Stamp of Memelland; 1920: definitive stamp of France of the issue "Semeuse solid background" of 1907 with overprint of a new currency; four-lines, black overprint "fess + fess / MEMEL / 20 / pfennig"; "MEMEL" and "pfennig" in vertical, Latin characters; "pfennig" with little initial character; "MEMEL" with great characters without serifes Stamp: Michel No. 20 (= France No. 119b or 119ax with overprint); Yvert & Tellier: No. 20 (KL) (= France No. 140a with overprint); AFA: No. 20 (KL) (= France No. 115a with overprint) Color: light blue to Prussian blue Watermark: none Nominal value: 20 Pfennig on 25 Centimes
Postage validity: from 7 July 1920 until 31 March 1923
date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1920-07-07T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1923-03-31T00:00:00Z/11
(Memel stamp)
Date
(first issue day of the Memel stamp)
(first issue day of the original stamp in France)
Source
scan of original
Author
Postal administration of the High Commission of the League of Nations (Memel Territory)
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