Children setting out — 10 + 5 Pf
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.DEU.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Recreation places for Berlin children
1957.DEU.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Germany (DEU)- Year / date
- 1957-02-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 10 + 5 Pf
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
- Colors
- Blackish olive-green and yellowish red
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Designer
- Arthur Schraml and Elisabeth Krauss-Guyer
- Printer
- Bagel Security-Print
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¼ × 13
- Printing
- Offset lithography
- Size
- 33 × 28 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.2
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- DE B354
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- DE 250
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- DE 129
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- DE 1176
Notes
Three children setting out, the eldest carrying a pennant on a staff and the others a suitcase between them, ERHOLUNGSPLÄTZE FÜR BERLINER KINDER across the foot. Domfil 957.2 «Llegada a la colonia / Arriving at the camp». AFA DE 1213. Print run 4,000,000. Valid until 31 December 1958.
Series history
The Federal Republic issued two semi-postals on 1 February 1957 inscribed ERHOLUNGSPLÄTZE FÜR BERLINER KINDER — recreation places for Berlin children. The surtax paid for the holiday camps that took children out of the blockaded and divided city for the summer. Domfil catalogues the pair as 957.2/3, «Llegada a la colonia» and «Salida de vacaciones».
The 10 + 5 pfennig in olive-green and red shows three children setting out, the eldest carrying a pennant on a staff and two of them a suitcase between them; the 20 + 10 pfennig in blue and orange shows a woman receiving two arriving children. Arthur Schraml and Elisabeth Krauss-Guyer designed them in a flat, poster-like style, and Bagel Security-Print produced them in offset, 33 × 28 mm, comb perforation 13¼ × 13, four million of each. They expired for postage on 31 December 1958.
A doubt worth recording. Nothing in these designs is Scouting: no fleur-de-lis, no neckerchief, no organisation named, and the children wear ordinary clothes. The subject is a state welfare scheme for city children, not a youth movement, and the closest the design comes is the pennant carried by the girl on the 10 pfennig. Domfil files the pair under children's summer camps and indexes it by the camp motif, as it does for holiday and welfare issues elsewhere; on the evidence of the stamps themselves the connection to Scouting is thematic at best.