NAZI GERMANY
STAMPS
1942

MICHEL 172
OFFICIALS

Manufactured in sheets of 100 this stamp is Perf K 14 : 14¼, typography on coated, vertically ribbed yellow gummed paper from the State Printing Works in Vienna. (Same as MICHEL 132 through 143 But without watermark and slight colour variations).

Mi 172
12Pf
red (variations)
(1944)

There are obvious colour variations, the only way to differentiate between this series and the 1934 series is that these stamps are on unwatermarked paper.

There are also variations from white to yellowish paper as well as smooth and ribbed gum.

There are many known printing irregularities

Valid until: May 1945

Quantities: Unknown

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