Stamp of the German Empire; 1902; definitive issue "Germania"; inscription "DEUTSCHES REICH"; without watermark; Germania with hatched background; postmarked in Heilbronn, 1907<br><p><b>Stamp</b>: Michel: No. 75; Yvert &amp; Tellier: No. 73 (DR); Scott: No. 72 (DE)<br><b>Color</b> carmine to red-carmine / brown-black<br><b>Watermark</b>: none<br><b>Nominal value</b>: 40 (Pfennig)<br></p>
<b>Postage validity</b>: from 1 April 1902 until 31 October 1922 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1902-04-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1922-10-31T00:00:00Z/11</div><br><b>Postmark</b>: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Heilbronn" title="Category:Heilbronn">Heilbronn a. Neckar</a> (then: Kingdom of Württemberg ("Neckarkreis - Oberamt Heilbronn"); contemporary: Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany), <time class="dtstart" datetime="1907-03-02" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">2 March 1907</time><i>(one-circle postmark; large size; 27 mm outer circle, with central three-lines date area)</i>
Deutsche Reichspost
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