Wuerttemberg, Republic, Digits in Rhomus-Overprinted with new Values 1923, August 10th, 1923, Michel Nr. 171-183; With inflation continuing to surge postal authorities overprinted additional old stamps wit new values as follows:
1,000M on 60Pf, 2,000M on 1.25M, 5,000M on 10Pf, 20,000M on 40Pf, 50,000M on 15Pf, 75,000M on 2M, 100,000M on 20Pf, 250,000M on 3M, 1million M on 60Pf, 2 million M on 50Pf, 5 million Mark on 1.25M, 4 billion Mark on 50Pf and 10 billion Mark on 3M.
Here is the mint never hinged set.
and here some postally used stamps of there sent. Note that the 4 billion stamp is signed „Infla“.
Postally used gutter pairs of the 5 Million Mark stamps (3) from the left sheet margin. Cancelled with the large circular canceler of Biberach. Note that the horizontal fold through the gutter part is normal as all sheets were folded when shipped to the post offices. Only about a dozen gutter pairs of all issued service stamps of Wuerttemberg have become known. Great rarity.
Postally used block of six 4 billion Mark stamps. Used in Reutlingen on December 23td, 1923. All stamps signed „Winkler“ and „Infla Berlin“.
Postally used block of six of the 10 billion Mark stamp (all stamps signed Infla)
Imperforate trial prints of the entire set do exist. Here is the entire mint never hinged set of these trial prints. All stamps signed „Winkler“
This is the same trial print set but this time with matching
Letter franked with fifty of the 400 Mark value paying an overall postage of 20,000 Marks on a letter sent from Ludwigsburg to Esslingen. Signed „Infla Berlin“
Spectacular franking of ten 4 billion Mark and six 10 billion Mark stamps paying an overall postage of 100 billion Marks (which was the equivalent of 10RP at the time) on a letter sent on December 10th of 1923 from Herrenberg to Oreschelbronn. Mixed frankings of these two stamps are rather rare.
Registration Nr. 00360
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