GERMAN EMPIRE
1894
MICHEL P33
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
5 PFENNIG
Issued 1894. Trial edition, with printing mark digits and lower case letters (794-894) as with P30, but with or without gap in the 1st, or 1st and 2nd dot line, without watermark. P33I with gaps in the dotted lines, P33II without gaps in the dotted lines.
P33I Valid Control Data: 794(a b and gap in 5th dot from the right, on the 4th dotted line), 794(a f), 894(f g m).
P33II Valid Control Data: 794(a d f)
For P33, the printing date can be in very different places below the last line, this was due to the manual process involved in the process used to include that information on the card.
Michel P33