<p>Stamp of the German Empire; 1880; definitive stamp of the issue of 1888; new currency instcription: "PFENNIG" (without ending "...E"); postmarked in Hamburg, 1888<br><b>Stamp</b>: Michel No. 39; Yvert &amp; Tellier: No. 36 (DR); Scott: No. 37 (DE)<br><b>Color</b>: yellowish green or dark green or green<br><b>Watermark</b>: none<br><b>Nominal value</b>: 3 Pfennig<br></p>
<b>Postage validity</b>: from 1880 until 31 January 1891 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1891-01-31T00:00:00Z/11</div><br><b>Postmark</b>: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hamburg" title="Category:Hamburg">Hamburg 7</a>, <time class="dtstart" datetime="1888-05-08" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">8 May 1888</time><i>(one-circle postmark, 26 mm outer circle)</i>
Deutsche Reichspost
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