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2 p blue 3 p orange 3 p black 5 p red 10 p green Surcharged
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'3 Pfg' (violet) on 5 p red '3 Pfg' (violet) on 10 p green '*3*' (violet) on 5 p red '*3*' (violet) on 10 p green Surcharged and overprinted with 'H' (violet) '3 Pfg' on 5 p red (very rare) Surcharged and overprinted with 'D' (violet) '3 Pfg' on 5 p red (very rare)
The stamps 2 p blue and 3 p orange were also used in Duren.
(Various cancels, among them three with 'Prosit Neujahr': 'Happy
newyear')
Postcard from Aachen.
2 p brown 2 p grey on yellow 2 1/2 p lilac 3 p blue 3 p blue on yellow 5 p red on yellow
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2 p red 3 p grey blue
2 p brown 3 p blue 5 p red
More heavily printed specimens exist (1897). Imperforate stamps also exist.
2 p blue 3 p blue 5 p blue 10 p blue 13 p blue 20 p blue 50 p blue 100 p blue
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2 p blue 3 p red 5 p orange 10 p green 100 p brown
2 p orange (Goethe) 3 p blue (Schiller) 10 p red (Mozart) 20 p green (Beethoven) 1 M green (Wagner)
2 p green 3 p blue 5 p red 10 p violet 15 p brown 20 p orange
Other stamps with a curved overprint exist on stamps of Hamburg, but are probably bogus issues.
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There exist a 1 Sh red and a 2 Sh blue, the adress 'Steintwiete 25' has mostly a penstroke on it (because the adress of the company had changed).
2 p brown 2 p grey on yellow 3 p blue 3 p blue on yellow 5 p red on yellow
3 p blue Overprinted 'OTTO COLLER APOLDA 3 p blue
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3 p red Overprinted "OTTO COLLER APOLDA" 3 p red
(Parcel stamps)
Parcel stamps with inscription "Expressverkehr J.W. Harris Apolda" exist with a number in the design in the values 5 p green, 10 p blue, 20 p brown, 30 p red and 50 p yellow. I have seen two types of all values, type I with the two small circles at both side of the value at the same level and type II with the right hand circle placed lower:
(Two types, reduced sizes)
Other values with the arms of Apolda and the inscription "EXPRESS - PACKET - VERKEHR APOLDA J.W. HARRIS" have been issued in the following values: 5 p green, 5 p blue, 10 p lilac, 20 p brown (shades), 30 p orange, 40 p yellow, 50 p blue, 50 p green and 1 M red.
Just after world war II, more local stamps were issued for Apolda.
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1 p orange (yellow) 1 p grey 2 p blue 2 p violet 3 p brown 3 p red 5 p brown 5 p green 10 p red 10 p yellow These stamps exist overprinted "Brand 1888" (fire)
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1 p brown 1 p green 1 1/2 p red 1 1/2 p yellow 2 p violet 2 p blue 2 p brown 3 p brown 3 p red 5 p grey 5 p yellow These stamps exists overprinted 'Brand 1888' (fire)
100 p brown 100 p red 150 p orange 150 p green 200 p violet 200 p blue 200 p brown 500 p yellow 500 p grey 1000 p red 1000 p yellow These stamps were also used in Falkenstein.
Postcard in the same design as postage stamps:
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Other issues from R.Muller with inscriptions "EXPRESS PACKET VERKEHR" (with and without embossed center, for parcels), "PACKET NACHPORTO" (parcel due stamps), "AUSGLEICHS MARKE", "WAAREN PROBEN", "EILBOTE" (express), "ANWEISUNG", "Auftrag" and "Eingeschrieben" (registered) exist, also some of them with overprint "Brand 1888":
"Auftrag" and "ANWEISUNG"
(With overprint "Brand. 1888", reduced size)
("AUSGLEICHS MARKE", reduced sizes)
("EILBOTE", reduced size)
("WAAREN-PROBEN", reduced size)
Some other parcel stamps:
(Express-Packet Verkehr, reduced sizes)
2 p red 3 p blue Surcharged in red or blue (old values removed)
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'15' on black '20' on blue '25' on red
These stamps were also used in Muhlhausen.
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2 p red 3 p blue
These stamps were also used in Muhlhausen.
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2 p blue 2 p orange 15 p red 20 p green 25 p brown
A 2 p yellow was issued for Bamberg in the same design, more values were issued in Furth.
2 p blue
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2 p yellow
Other values exist in Augsburg and Furth, the 15 p green, 20 p black and 25 p brown of Furth were also used in Bamberg.
2 p blue
2 p blue
2 p red (2 types) 3 p orange 5 p green 5 p blue
3 p brown
2 p brown 3 p green
Postcards, example:
(What is this? Postcard overprinted 'Berlin Wilmersdorf')
I've seen (modern) reprints made with the
original dies in minisheets (50 sets were printed of each)
6 stamps of 3 pf blue
6 stamps of 3 pf red
4 stamps, 3 pf (2 times), 4 pf and 10 pf all in green
4 stamps, 3 pf (2 times), 4 pf and 10 pf all in blue; the four
stamps printed in a lozenge shape