FR 1920 Memel MiNr022 B002

Stamp of memelland; 1920: definitive stamp of france of the issue "semeuse solid background" with overprint of a new currency; four-lines, black overprint "fess + fess / memel / 40 / pfennig"; "memel" and "pfennig" in vertical, latin characters; "pfennig" with little initial character; "memel" with great characters without serifes stamp: michel: no. 22 (= france no. 118y (1907) with overprint); yvert & tellier: no. 22 (kl) (on france no. 139e); afa: no. 22 color: lilac brown watermark: none nominal value: 40 pfennig on 20 centimes postage validity: from 7 july 1920 until 31 march 1923 postmark: heydekrug, (heydekrug = then district capital in the "regierungsbezirk gumbinnen", east prussia, germany; contemporary šilutė in lithuania/district klaipeda). Date: 7 July 1920 (first issue day of the stamp in Memelland). 10 July 1920 (date of postmark). 1 December 1907 (first issue day of the original stamp in France).