FR 1920 Memel MiNr020 B002a

Stamp of memelland; 1920: definitive stamp of france of the issue "semeuse solid background" of 1907 with overprint of a new currency; four-lines, black overprint "fess + fess / memel / 20 / pfennig"; "memel" and "pfennig" in vertical, latin characters; "pfennig" with little initial character; "memel" with great characters without serifes stamp: michel no. 20 (= france no. 119b or 119ax with overprint); yvert & tellier: no. 20 (kl) (= france no. 140a with overprint); afa: no. 20 (kl) (= france no. 115a with overprint) color: light blue to prussian blue watermark: none nominal value: 20 pfennig on 25 centimes postage validity: from 7 july 1920 until 31 march 1923 (memel stamp). Date: 7 July 1920 (first issue day of the Memel stamp); 19 June 1907 (first issue day of the original stamp in France).