POSTAGE STAMPS
(1923)

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MICHEL 328
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 328 was produced using flat plate and rotary press printing.



VALIDITY: 12th Nov 1923 until 31st Dec 1923
VALUE: 10 Milliarden MARK
COLOUR: blackish green yellow / dark olive green (shades)
WATERMARK: Waffle
PERF: comb 14 x 14¼
SIZE: 22 x 26mm
PRINT TYPE: Typography
AVAILABILITY: Sheets
QUANTITY PRINTED: Unknown

MAJOR VARIATIONS

There are two major variations



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 328 A P - flat plate printing
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 A W - rotary press printing

Flat plate printing and rotary press printing examples can be determined by the size of the stamp: Flat plate 17.7mm x 21.5mm and rotary press printing 18.0mm x 22.0mm.

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.

Mi 328 A P OR A (Plate A - upper margin only with row values)
Mi 328 A P OR B (Plate B - upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)
Mi 328 A P OR C (Plate C - upper margin with thin line and row values)



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 328 A P OR A upper margin only with row values)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 A P OR B upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)

UPPER EDGE PIECES: (Rotary Press Printing Upper Margin Copies - W OR). There is only one type of upper edge piece.

Mi 328 A W OR: 1'4'1 / 1'5'1

MARGIN COPIES (left or right) with rouletting

Mi 328 A P dgz

HAN: There are two different HAN

Mi 328 A P: H6309.23
Mi 328 A P: H6309.32 (typesetting error)

OTHER VARIANTS

Mi 328 A P U: imperforate
Mi 328 A P DD: doubleprinting of stamp design

'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.

Mi 328 A P HT: crack
Mi 328 A Pe 1: frayed margin



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 328 A P HT 1 Cracked plate flaw
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 A PE 1 Cracked plate flaw

PLATE FLAWS

There is only one major plate flaw



ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 PF II - upper part of large '0' in '10' strongly nicked

STAMPS FROM MY COLLECTION

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

MINT / POSTALLY UNUSED

UPPER EDGE PIECES - P OR

ABOVE LEFT: Mi 328 A P OR A upper margin only with row values)
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 A P OR B upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)

CRACK PLATE FLAWS

ABOVE LEFT: Mi 328 A P HT 1 Cracked plate flaw on left stamp
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 328 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