OFFICIAL GANZSACHEN
(1876)

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RP1
OFFICIAL ROHRPOSTKARTE
25 PFENNIG

The public pneumatic tube transport was introduced on 1st Dec 1876 for Berlin with some suburbs. RU 1 and RP 1 were available to the public from the first day onwards. In December 1876 alone, 94,495 different items of mail were transported.

Issued 1st Dec 1876. This Rohrpost Card features a dark brown, 25Pf, 'Small Eagle in Ellipse' pre-printed stamp and measures 140 x 90mm. Items that are reddish brown on lively pink cardboard are, according to Ascher, test prints, but they are also known used. The value stamp for RP1 has strongly saturated colours, even after being produced 100 years ago. Unlike RP4 and RP5 it has only a single variant for the shape of the numbers "25", whereas RP4 and RP5 have three possible variants.



RP1 - 25 PFENNIG BROWN