POSTAGE STAMPS
(1923)

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04-Mar-2023 07:08

MICHEL 322 A P
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 322 was produced using flat plate printing.



VALIDITY: 30th Oct 1923 until 31st Dec 1923
VALUE: 100 Millionen MARK
COLOUR: dark greenish grey to dark green grey
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 only produced using flat plate printing

COLOUR VARIATIONS

There are no major colour variations

UPPER EDGE PIECES: (Flat Plate Printing Upper Margin Copies - P OR). There are three types of upper edge piece.



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P OR A (Plate A - upper margin only with row values)
ABOVE CENTRE: Mi 322 A P OR B (Plate B - upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 322 A P OR C (Plate C - upper margin with thin line and row values)

MARGIN COPIES (left or right) with rouletting

Mi 322 A P dgz

HAN: There are two different HAN

Mi 322 A P: H5955.23
Mi 322 A P: H6021.23



ABOVE: Mi 322 A P HAN H5955.23

OTHER VARIANTS

Mi 322 A P Uu: bottom imperforate
Mi 322 A P U: imperforate
Mi 322 A P F: without denomination
Mi 322 A P DD: double denomination

'CRACK' PLATE FLAWS

There is a crack on the left side of the rosette as well as other anomalies. Besides the crack (HT), the other most common flaw is fraying of the margin beneath the posthorn (PE 1). These two faults always appear together on a sheet in fields 43, 48, 93 and 98.



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P HT 1 Cracked plate flaw
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 322 A Pe 1 Cracked plate flaw

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 / LOWER MARGIN PIECES - P OR

There are three types of P OR upper edge piece.



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P OR A (Plate A - upper margin only with row values)
ABOVE CENTRE: Mi 322 A P OR B (Plate B - upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)



ABOVE: Mi 322 A P OR C (Plate C - upper margin with thin line and row values)



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P OR A - lower margin piece
ABOVE CENTRE: Mi 322 A P OR B - lower margin piece



ABOVE: Mi 322 A P UR C - lower margin piece

HAN

ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P HAN H5955.23
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 322 A P HAN H6021.23

CRACK PLATE FLAWS

ABOVE LEFT: Mi 322 A P HT 1 Cracked plate flaw on left stamp
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 322 A Pe 1 Cracked plate flaw

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