Historic mailboxes - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1985 - 35 Pfennig

Historical mailboxes With the illustrations of historical mailboxes, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps, one after the other, and in co-printing. Special postage stamps from February 5 to April 4 Historical letterboxes The forerunners of the mailbox are from the period around 1600 traditional postmarks that served the seafaring merchants, as at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, as a letter tray. The exterior of the mailboxes changed fundamentally, due in part to the emptying change with the invention of the Swedish engineer Wiberg. The new, larger, bottomed shape presented itself from 1874. In the following decades, this grew into a corresponding to the contemporary taste overloaded ornamentation. The 35-pfennig value shows the mailbox, which has been frequently represented in Berlin's cityscape since 1896 and after 1910, with a sweeping roof, caryatids and posthorn underneath the mailbox flaps. The brass emptying indicator dominated the front.