Coat of Arms on thick paper

Wuerttemberg, Kingdom, Coat of Arms printed on thick paper (0.09mm-0.14mm), 1860, Michel Nr. 16x-19x: Four stamps in nominals of 1Kr, 3Kr, 6Kr and 9Kr were issued in perforation 13.5.

1Kr stamp (dark-blackish-brown, Michel Nr. 16xb) mint, full original gum with hinge.

1Kr stamp (orange-brown, Michel Nr. 16xa) used.

1Kr stamp (brown, Michel Nr. 16xa) cancelled by the triple-ringed circular canceler of Hohenheim (+20 points).

3Kr stamp (dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) cancelled with the three-ringed circular canceler of Biberach.

Horizontal pair of the 3Kr stamps on a small piece (Dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) cancelled with the three-ringed circular canceler of Biberach. Units larger than one are always worth more than single stamps. Michel values a pair at about 8 times the normal catalogue value.

Horizontal pair of the 3Kr stamps (yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) on a folded letter sent in October of 1860 from Biberach to Freiburg. Given the 6Kr franking the letter must have been of 2 lot in weight. Signed „Star“.

3Kr stamp (dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) cancelled by the three-ringed circular cancel of Crailsheim.

3Kr stamp (dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) on a small piece cancelled with the three-ringed circular cancel of Ehingen in September of 1860.

3Kr stamp (Yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) paying the standard letter arte for 1 lot in weight on an intra-state folded letter sent in February of 1861 from Herrenalb (+40 points) to Altenstaig. Wildbad and Calw transit cancels on the reverse. Altenstaig arrival cancel.

3Kr stamp (dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) cancelled by the triple-ringed circular canceler of Liebenzell (+40 points).

3Kr stamp (dark-yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) on a small piece cancelled with the triple-ringed circular cancel of Oberrot (+80 points) in Mai of 1861.

Rare mixed franking of the 2nd and 4th Wuerttemberg issue. 9Kr (carmine, Michel Nr. 9a) together with a 3Kr stamp (Yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) paying an overall postage of 12Kr. The postage was made up of 3Kr Postal Union charge plus 9Kr for the onward transport in Switzerland. Sent from Gschwend to St. Gallen in Switzerland in June of 1862. Unobtrusive fold affecting the stamps. Various transit and arrival cancels on the reverse.

3Kr (yellow-orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) cancelled by the three-ringed circular canceler of Tuttlingen (Type I) in September of 1860.

3Kr stamp (dark-yellowish orange, Michel Nr. 17xa) on a small piece cancelled with the triple-ringed circular canceler of Wasseralfingen (+5 points)

3Kr stamp (vivid-orange-yellow, Michel Nr. 17xb) in a very rare strip of four with full original gum. The middle two stamps are mint never hinged which is extremely rare for the Kreuzer currency period. The top and bottom stamps have hinge remnants. Largest known mint unit of this stamp.

3Kr stamp (vivid-orange-yellow, Michel Nr. 17xb) used.

3Kr stamp (vivid-orange-yellow, Michel Nr. 17xb) used in Heilbronn

3Kr stamp (vivid–orange-yellow, Michel Nr. 17xb) canceled with the three-ringed circular canceler from Herrenalb (+40 points).

3Kr stamp (vivid-yellowish-orange, Michel Nr. 17xb) cancelled with the three-ringed circular canceler of Ofterdingen (+30 points).

Vertical pair and a single 3Kr stamp (vivid-yellowish-orange, Michel Nr. 17xc) on a small piece cancelled with the triple-ringed circular canceler of Berg (+5 points). Michel values pairs at 6 times that of single stamps.

3Kr stamp (yellowish-orange, Michel Nr. 17xc) on a small piece cancelled with the double-ringed circular canceler of Zwiefalten (+10 points).

6Kr stamp (Michel Nr. 18xa, green) mint without gum, signed „Thier“ and „Thoma“. While Irtenkauf decided that the stamp belonged to the a) color the editor has determined that according to the Michel Color Guide the stamp actually shows the more expensive „dark-olive-green b color.

6Kr stamp in a block of four mint with full original gum (hinged). This the largest known mint unit of this stamp.

6Kr stamp (middle-green-olive, Michel Nr. 18xa) cancelled with the double-ringed circular cancel of Stuttgart.

6Kr stamp (dark-olive-green, Michel Nr. 18xb) used.

6Kr stamp (dark-olive-green, Michel Nr. 18xb) cancelled with the double-ringed circular cancel, of Giengen in March of 1861 (+10 points).

6Kr stamp (dark-olive-green, Michel Nr. 18xb) cancelled with triple-ringed circular canceler of Schramberg in May of 1862 (+5 points).

9Kr stamp (vivid-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xa) mint without gum (re-gummed).

9Kr stamp (vivid-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xa) cancelled with the double-ringed circular canceler of Hall in December of 1860 (Type I, +15 points).

9Kr stamp (vivid-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xaI) cancelled in Stuttgart. Note that the stamp shows the plate error „white diagonal line from R to star“. Signed „Hederer, Thoma and Richter.“

Detailed scan of the plate error.

9Kr stamp (vivid-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xa) cancelled with their single ring circular canceler of Stuttgart. The stamp shows the plate error „slanted white line below R of Kreuzer“. Signed „Irtenkauf„.

Detailed can of the plate error.

9Kr stamp (dark-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xb) cancelled in Stuttgart.

Single franking of the 9Kr stamp (dark-red-carmine, Michel Nr. 19xb) on a folded letter sent in October of 1860 from Stuttgart to Frankfurt/Main. Black Stuttgart Distribution cancel D2 on the reverse.