Yellow Cathedral

Yellow Cathedral

The one known full sheet of 100 Yellow Cathedral stamps
Country of production Germany
Date of production 1948
Nature of rarity unissued, nearly all printed copies were destroyed
Number in existence 103
(1 sheet of 100 and 3 single stamps)
Face value 5 Pfennig

The Yellow Cathedral (German Gelber Dom) is an unissued stamp produced by the Deutsche Post. Beginning on September 1, 1948, a new stamp series, the so-called "building series", was introduced in the American and British Occupation Zones of Germany. A planned design was the Cologne Cathedral in yellow, with a nominal value of five Pfennig. The stamp was intended to be used as a surcharge stamp for airmail delivery.

The actual issued stamp was blue (Michel catalogue number 75) and all but a few copies of the yellow printed stamps were destroyed. There have been only three known auctions of single stamps.

Between September 20 to 22, 2007 the only complete sheet of stamps was on display at the Cologne fair Philatelie und MünzExpo (Philately and Coin Exposition). The displayed copy was from Bonn's Archive of Philately. The insured value of that sheet is one million euros.[1]

Same design normal stamp as issued in blue

References

  1. ↑ "Sicherheitsstufe 1 für den Briefmarkenbogen "Gelber Dom"" (in German). Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2009-06-18.

(In German)


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