POSTAGE STAMPS
(1922)

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11-Jun-2023 04:04

MICHEL 233
ASSISTANCE FOR THE ELDERLY AND CHILDREN

VALIDITY: 11th Dec 1922 until 15th Jan 1923 (only foreign usage after this date)
VALUE: 6 MARK + 4 MARK
COLOUR: dark grey ultramarine to dark violet ultramarine / medium orange brown
WATERMARK: Waffle
PERF: comb 14
SIZE: 26 x 43mm
PRINT TYPE: Offset Lithography
AVAILABILITY: Sheets
QUANTITY PRINTED: 5,000,000

COLOUR VARIATIONS

There are no major colour variations or shades

OTHER VARIATIONS

UPPER EDGE PIECES: (Flat Plate Printing Upper Margin Copies - P OR). There is only one type of upper edge piece.

Mi 233 P OR

HAN: There is only one HAN



H6911.22

PLATE FLAWS & VARIETIES

There are six major plate flaws and one variant as well as numerous minor flaws



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 233 PF I - lower arm broken (field 33)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 233 PF II - upper part of 'i' and 'n' in 'kinderhilfe' connected (field 27)



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 233 PF III - vertical line of '4' shorter on top (field 12)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 233 PF IV - eye only marginally recognizable, hair coloured in (field 6)



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 233 PF V - left umlaut dot of 'für' missing (field 39)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 233 PF VI - mutilated left lower serif of denomination "m" (field 42)



ABOVE: Mi 233 DD - double printing of the grey ultramrine

STAMPS FROM MY COLLECTION

All of the stamps from here until the end of the page are from my collection

MINT / POSTALLY UNUSED

PLATE FLAW - PF I

The following three stamps both feature the PF I flaw - Lower arm broken (field 33)

PLATE FLAW - PF II

PF II - upper part of 'i' and 'n' in 'kinderhilfe' connected (field 27)

PLATE FLAW - PF III

PF III - vertical line of '4' shorter on top (field 12)

PLATE FLAW - PF IV

PF IV - eye only marginally recognizable, hair coloured in (field 6)

PLATE FLAW - PF V

PF V - left umlaut dot of 'für' missing (field 39). See stamp on the top-left of the block below

POSTALLY USED

The following stamps have all been postally used and cancelled accordingly.



ABOVE LEFT: Cancelled in BERLIN on the first day of issue 11th Dec 1922
ABOVE RIGHT: Cancelled in ULM (DONAU) on 15th Dec 1922

REFERENCES:

1. MICHEL Deutschland-Spezial 2022 Band 1: 1849 bis April 1945. ISBN: 978-95402-401-8.
2. www.colnect.com
3. Plattenfehler Katalog Deutsches Reich 1872-1945 inkl. Dienstmarken, 4th Edition 2003. Thomas Schantl Verlag. ISBN: 3-932769-25-2