POSTAGE STAMPS
(1939)
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MICHEL 19
PORTRAITS and LANDSCAPES
DEFINITIVE STAMP
(15th Jul 1939)
Issued on 15th Jul 1939. The 19th stamp in a Series of 19 definitive stamps consisting of existing Czechoslovakian stamps overprinted "BÖHMEN u. MÄHREN / ČECHY a MORAVA" and former country name obliterted with three horizontal lines. Designed by
Karel Vik | Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Seizinger.
This stamp features the historic city of Bratislava, the present day capital city of Slovakia, situated on the Morava and Danube Rivers. The city borders onto Austria and Hungary and is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. Bratislava was bombarded by the Allies, occupied by German troops in 1944, and eventually taken by troops of the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front on 4th Apr 1945. At the end of World War II, most of Bratislava's ethnic Germans were evacuated by the German authorities.
VALIDITY: 15th Jul to 15th Dec 1939
VALUE: 10 Kč
COLOUR: black cobalt blue
WATERMARK: None
PERF: line 12½
AVAILABILITY: Sheets
SIZE: 33 x 27mm
PRINTING TYPE: Recess
QUANTITY PRINTED: 275,000
VARIATIONS
There are no major variations
PLATE FLAWS
There are no major plate flaws
STAMPS FROM MY COLLECTION
All stamps shown from here until the end of the page are from my personal collectionMINT / UNUSED
