<p>Stamp of Germany; 1948; definitive stamp of the Allied Control Authority issue for the occupated Germany - Soviet zone = common issue for the American, British and Soviet Zone with black handstamp overprint for Thuringia ("16 <i>(= "Postbezirk 16" = area of the "Oberpostdirektion Erfurt")</i> / <i>for</i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eisfeld" title="Category:Eisfeld">Eisfeld</a>") = so-called "Zweite Kontrollratsausgabe" from 1947 with overprint; treeplanter<br><b>Stamp</b>: Michel: Germany (Soviet Zone) No. 166III (= Michel No. 943 ("Zweite Kontrollratsausgabe") with overprint); Yvert &amp; Tellier: No. 8 V1 (DD-ZS)<br><b>Color</b> black with black overprint<br><b>Watermark</b>: Germany (Allied Occupation Zones), No. 6X (script "DEUTSCHE POST", falling from left upper to right below, seen and readable from the backside of the stamp)<br><b>Nominal value</b>: 2 Pfennig<br></p>
<b>Postage validity</b>: from 24 June 1948 until 10 July 1948 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1948-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P580,+1948-06-24T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1948-07-10T00:00:00Z/11</div><br><i>(These handstamped issues were only in the counter sale for 9 days (from 24 June 1948 until 2 July 1948 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1948-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P580,+1948-06-24T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1948-07-02T00:00:00Z/11</div>) and were valid for the franking of postal sendings only to the <time class="dtstart" datetime="1948-07-10" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">10 July 1948</time>.)</i><br><p><b>Stamp picture size</b>: 18.5 x 22.5 mm<br></p>
<b>Overprint</b>: "16 / Eisfeld" <i>(= "Postbezirk 16" = "Oberpostdirektion Erfurt" (Thuringia), for the city of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eisfeld" title="Category:Eisfeld">Eisfeld</a>))</i>
"Deutsche Post - Oberpostdirektion Erfurt" under supervision of the Allied Control Authority for the occupated Germany - Soviet Zone
scan of original