POSTAGE STAMPS
(1923)

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MICHEL 330
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 330 was produced using flat plate printing, either perf comb 14 x 14¼ or rouletted 13.



VALIDITY: 22nd Nov 1923 until 31st Dec 1923
VALUE: 50 Milliarden MARK
COLOUR: bright cobalt blue / blackish to black cobalt blue (shades)
WATERMARK: Waffle
PERF: comb 14 x 14¼ and roulette
SIZE: 22 x 26mm
PRINT TYPE: Typography
AVAILABILITY: Sheets
QUANTITY PRINTED: Unknown

MAJOR VARIATIONS

There are two major variations



ABOVE LEFT: Mi 330 A P - perf comb 14 x 14¼
ABOVE RIGHT: Mi 330 B P - roulette

COLOUR VARIATIONS

There are no major colour variations

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

Mi 330 A P OR A (Plate A - upper margin only with row values)
Mi 330 A P OR B (Plate B – upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)
Mi 330 B P OR A (Plate A - upper margin only with row values)
Mi 330 B P OR B (Plate B – upper margin with bar of dashes and row values)



ABOVE: Mi 330 A P OR A

HAN: There are two different HAN

Mi 330 A P: H6311.23
Mi 330 B P: H6311.23

OTHER VARIANTS

Mi 330 A P F: without 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.

Mi 330 A P HT: crack (perf)
Mi 330 A P HT: crack (roulette)
Mi 330 A Pe 1: frayed margin (perf)
Mi 330 A Pe 1: frayed margin (roulette)

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 EDGE PIECES - P OR

ABOVE: Mi 330 A P OR A

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