Yellow Cathedral

Yellow Cathedral

Infobox_RareStamps
common_name = Yellow Cathedral


country_of_production = Germany
location_of_production =
date_of_production = 1948
nature_of_rarity = unissued, nearly all printed
copies were destroyed
number_in_existence = 103
(1 sheet à 100 and
3 single stamps)
face_value = 5 Pfennig
estimated_value =
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 euro.

External links

("In German")
* [http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1190059884342.shtml Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Gelber Dom schlägt blaue Mauritius] ("Yellow Cathedral beats Two Pence Blue")
* [http://www.bdph.de/index.php?&id=93&backPID=1&tt_news=1741&cHash=b127aa8b14 Bund Deutscher Philatelisten: Sicherheitsstufe 1 für den Briefmarkenbogen "Gelber Dom"] (Federation of German Philatelists: Security level 1 for the stamp sheet "Yellow Cathedral")
* [http://www.philatelia.de/wDeutsch/philatelia/global/virtuelle_pressefaecher/veranstalter_pressefachW3DnavidW2641.shtml?aktion=pfach&p1id=kmpresse_philatelia&format=jscript&base=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philatelia.de%2FwDeutsch%2Fphilatelia%2Fglobal%2Fvirtuelle%5Fpressefaecher%2Fveranstalter%5FpressefachW3DnavidW2641.shtml&tp=default&search=&pmid=kmeigen.kmpresse_1190106812&start=0&anzahl=10&channel=kmeigen&language=d Pressemitteilung: Vorsicht: gelb, gezackt und wertvoll! (mit Bildern)] (Press release: Attention: yellow, serrated, and precious! (With images))


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