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GERMANY Airmail

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1912 Air mail, inscription 'ERSTE DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST'

  10 p brown on yellow
  20 p brown on yellow
  30 p green on yellow

Overprinted 'Gelber Hund'

  '- 1 M. -' on 10 p brown on yellow

Overprinted 'E.EL.P.'

  10 p brown on yellow
  20 p brown on yellow

These stamps are perforated 11 1/2.
Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value Unused Used Remarks
10 p ** R
20 p ** ***
30 p ** ***
'Gelber Hund'
1 M on 10 p R ***
'E.EL.P'
10 p *** R
20 p *** R

On envelope:

Forgeries:

(Peter Winter forgeries)

Both stamps with 'E.E.L.P.' overprint and the one with 'Gelber Hund' have been forged by Peter Winter. In all his forgeries that I have seen the word 'COPY' is printed at the bottom of the stamp. I have also seen a postcard with one of his forgeries:

(Forged postcard adressed to: 'Walter Kunath Leipzig C1 Humboldsstrasse 2a')

The position of the stamp, cancels and adress varies from forgery to forgery.

I have also seen forgeries without the word 'COPY' at the bottom (from the same source?).

I have also seen modern Hialeah forgeries of these stamps, made with a scanner and printer. The quality of these forgeries is very bad.

1919 Airmail issue

  10 p orange (posthorn with wings)
  40 p green (aeroplane)

These stamps are perforated 14 1/2.
Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value Unused Used Remarks
10 p vc c
40 p vc c

1922 Air mail, dove ('Holztaube'), inscription 'Deutsche Flugpost'

50 p orange
(Reduced size)

  5 p green (1924)
  10 p red (1924)
  20 p blue (1924)
  25 p brown
  40 p orange
  50 p violet
  50 p orange (1924)
  60 p red
  80 p green
  100 p lilac (1924)
  200 p blue (1924)
  300 p grey (1924)
 
Larger size (some with coloured underprint)

  1 M dark green and green
  2 M red and grey
  3 M violet and grey
  5 M orange and yellow
  5 M orange
  10 M lilac and red
  10 M lilac
  25 M brown and yellow
  25 M brown
  100 M olive and orange
  100 M olive
  200 M violet

These stamps have perforation 14 (Pfennig values) or 13 x 13 1/2 (Mark values). The watermark is 'Crossed Lines' (Waffeln).
Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value Unused Used Remarks
Small sizes
5 p * c 1924
10 p * * 1924
20 p * * 1924
25 p c *
40 p c *
50 p violet c *
50 p orange ** ** 1924
60 p c *
80 p c *
100 p *** *** 1924
200 p *** *** 1924
300 p *** R 1924 Exists imperforte
Large size
1 M vc c
2 M vc c
3 M vc c
5 M orange and yellow vc c Yellow underprint
5 M orange c c
10 M lilac and red c c Red underprint
10 M lilac vc c
25 M brown and yellow c c Yellow underprint
25 M brown vc c
100 M olive and orange c c Orange underprint
100 M olive vc c
200 M vc c

The above overprint is unlisted 'Frankfurter Fruhjahrs Fluge 1925'. It might be a private overprint. I have also seen the 10 M lilac with this overprint.

The next airmail stamps were issued in 1926 (eagle ready to take off) in the values 5 p to 3 M (7 values)

Famous are also the so-called Zeppelin stamps with inscription 'DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST', example:

(Zeppelin issue)

Semi-Official Airmail (Halb amtliche Flugpost)

1912 Flugpost Gotha

  10 p violet

I have seen this stamp on a postcard with handstamped 'G. Schlegel' (supposed to imitate the pilot's signature), used on 25th July 1912. Only 500 stamps are known to have been used.

1913 Bork-Bruck

(This label has an empty space in the middle for a normal postage stamp, inscriptio 'FLUGPOST BORK BRUCK')

Only 90 of the above lables were issued.

(inscription 'Lufverkehr Bork-Bruck Verkehrs-V.Bork')

Forgeries exist (both perforated and imperforate), example:

(Forgery, reduced size)

Besides the two above labels, another label seems to have been issued picturing a letter with wings and inscription 'DURCH DIE LUFT VERK - VER - BORK'.

Leipzig 1912

'MARGARETEN VOLKSFEST LEIPZIG 18 MAI 1912 FLUGPOSTMARKE 50 Pf', probably genuine

I have also seen the above stamp with perforation.

1924 Junkers - Luftverkehr Berlin - Angora

(Genuine stamp)

(Forgery of this stamp)

Copyright by Evert Klaseboer

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Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
10 p	**	R
20 p	**	***
30 p	**	***
'Gelber Hund'
1 M on 10 p	R	***
'E.EL.P'
10 p	***	R
20 p	***	R