POSTAGE STAMPS
(1923)

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04-Mar-2023 05:56

MICHEL 320 A W
REGULAR ISSUE NUMBER IN CIRCLE WITH ROSETTE

The design of stamps Mi 313 to 330 are referred to as 'Basket lid' or denomination in circle with rosette. The stamps are printed typography on waffle watermarked paper and most of them were produced either flat plate printing or rotary press printing. In addition some of them exist perf comb 14 x 14¼ and rouletted 13.

The stamps exist with a large number of errors: damaged letters, numbers or posthorns, flattened numbers, shading errors, shifted print etc, but only the most common of these are described below.

Mi 320 was produced rotary press printing only.



VALIDITY: 20th Oct 1923 until 31st Dec 1923
VALUE: 30 Millionen MARK
COLOUR: dark carmine brown
WATERMARK: Waffle
PERF: comb 14 x 14¼
SIZE: 22 x 26mm
PRINT TYPE: Typography
AVAILABILITY: Sheets
QUANTITY PRINTED: Unknown

MAJOR VARIATIONS

There are no major variations as this stamp was printed rotary press only

COLOUR VARIATIONS

There are no major colour variations but there are shades

UPPER EDGE PIECES: (Rotary Press Printing Upper Margin Copies - W OR). There are four types of upper edge piece.



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 320 A W OR: 0'6'0 / 0'7'0
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 320 A W OR: 0'6'0 / 1'5'1



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 320 A W OR: 1'4'1 / 0'7'0
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 320 A W OR: 1'4'1 / 1'5'1 (stamp on the right)

HAN: There are no HAN

OTHER VARIANTS

There are no other variations

PLATE FLAWS

There are no major plate flaws

STAMPS FROM MY COLLECTION

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

MINT / POSTALLY UNUSED

UPPER MARGIN PIECES - W OR

UPPER EDGE PIECES: (Rotary Press Printing Upper Margin Copies - W OR). There are four types of upper edge piece.



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 320 A W OR: 0'6'0 / 0'7'0
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 320 A W OR: 0'6'0 / 1'5'1



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 320 A W OR: 1'4'1 / 0'7'0
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 320 A W OR: 1'4'1 / 1'5'1 (stamp on the right)

LOWER MARGIN PIECES - W UR

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