Scott # Michel # Description Price German SpecimenScott # MichelOverprints # Description Price 2008 Price List German Specimen Overprints with the German word “Muster” (literally “sample”) were issued from the 1950’s on for presentation and promotional purposes and to give advance notice and information on the design to be issued. They were issued in limited quantity and the rarest of the German Specimens are for issues that were withdrawn before being issued. These can sell for many thousands of dollars! We invite you to browse through our list. German Specimen Overprints make an exciting addition to any Topical or German collection or exhibit. Scott # Michel # Description Price Scott # Michel # Description Price Germany: Commemoratives 1961 1953 840-41 ...... 363-64 ....... 75 Years Motorized traffic, Gottlieb Daimer’s car, 698-701 .... 167-70 ....... Train and hand signal, Transport and Communica- Carl Benz’s 3 wheel car, Mercedes Benz ..........150.00 tions, pigeon and planes, Automobiles and traffic signal, ship, barges and buoy .............................. 300.00 1962 848 ............ 375 ............. Notes and tuning fork, Maniz anniversary......... 50.00 1956 850 ............ 381 ............. German Catholics .................................................. 35.00 739 ............ 228 ............. Clavicord, birth of Mozart ................................. 150.00 740 ............ 229 ............. Heirich Heine, Poet ............................................... 45.00 1963 743 ............ 234 ............. Robert Schumann, composer ................................ 85.00 855 ............ 390 ............. Mother and child receiving gifts, relief agencies 35.00 745 ............ 236 ............. Evangelical Synod .................................................. 40.00 1964 746 ............ 237 ............. Thomas Mann, novelist ........................................ 90.00 880 ............ 428 ............. Ottobeuren Abbey .................................................. 35.00 747 ............ 238 ............. Maria Laach Abbey ................................................. 40.00 881-82 ...... 429-30 ....... President Heinrich Lübke ..................................... 50.00 750 ............ 239 ............. German Catholics, Cologne ................................... 40.00 895 ............ 443 ............. Ferdinand Lassalle ................................................. 35.00 751 ............ 240 ............. Map, Police Expo .................................................. 60.00 896 ............ 444 ............. German Catholics, Radiating Sun ......................... 40.00 752 ............ 247 ............. Pigeon with letter, Day of the stamp .................. 50.00 899 ............ 451 ............. 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo, Judo ................. 85.00 753 ............ 248 ............. Cemetery Crosses commemorate WWII.......... 100.00 900 ............ 452 ............. Prussian eagle ......................................................... 40.00 901 ............ 453 ............. John F. Kennedy .................................................. 150.00 1965 917 ............ 462 ............. Matthias Claudius, Owl, Frogs, hats ................... 125.00 743Robert 784Giraffe 918 ............ 463 ............. Prince Otto von Bismark ..................................... 40.00 Schumann, 919 ............ 468 ............. Traffic lights and signs .......................................... 45.00 and Lion, 920 ............ 469 ............. Communications satellite ..................................... 50.00 composer Zoo at 921 ............ 470 ............. Old and new post buses .......................................... 45.00 Frankfurt 922 ............ 471 ............. Semaphore telegaph and telecommunications tower . ................................................................................ 50.00 923 ............ 472 ............. Old and new railroad engine, Train ..................... 80.00 925 ............ 474 ............. Sailing ship and ocean liner .................................. 45.00 926 ............ 475 ............. Flowers, May Day ................................................. 40.00 927 ............ 476 ............. ITU emblem ........................................................... 45.00 928 ............ 477 ............. Adolph Kolping, Catholic Unions of Journeymen ..... ................................................................................ 35.00 1957 929 ............ 478 ............. Rescue ship ............................................................. 45.00 754 ............ 249 ............. Saar Coat of Arms .................................................. 45.00 930 ............ 479 ............. German expatriation ............................................. 35.00 765 ............ 255 ............. Arms of Aschaffenburg .......................................... 45.00 931 ............ 480 ............. Synod emblem and labyrinth ................................ 35.00 766 ............ 256 ............. Scholars Manuscripts.............................................. 40.00 932 ............ 481 ............. Radio waves, Stuttgart television tower .............. 60.00 767 ............ 257 ............. Merchant Marine Day, Freighter .......................... 75.00 933 ............ 482 ............. Stamp on stamp, Thurn and Taxis ...................... 50.00 768 ............ 258 ............. Liebig Laboratory ................................................... 45.00 934-35 ...... 483-84 ....... Europa................................................................... 125.00 769 ............ 266 ............. Albert Ballin, founder Hamburg_America Steamship Line ......................................................................... 50.00 1966 770 ............ 267 ............. Television screen .................................................... 60.00 959 ............ 504 ............. Nathan Söderblom, theologian, Nobel Peace Prize .... 771-72 ...... 268-69 ....... Europa, United Europe Peasce & Prosperity .. 125.00 ............................................................................ 100..00 773 ............ 274 ............. Water Lily ............................................................... 50.00 960 ............ 505 ............. Cardinal Galen, anti-Nazi Bishop ........................ 40.00 774 ............ 275 ............. European Robin ...................................................... 45.00 961 ............ 515 ............. German Catholics, fish.......................................... 40.00 775 ............ 276 ............. Carrier Pigeons ....................................................... 45.00 962 ............ 518 ............. G. W. Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician . 40.00 776 ............ 277 ............. Baron vom Stein, Statesman ................................. 45.00 963-64 ...... 519-20 ....... Europa................................................................... 125.00 777 ............ 278 ............. Rabbi Leo Baeck, Judaica ....................................... 50.00 965-66 ...... 521-22 ....... Science and Technology, three-phase transmission, 778 ............ 279 ............. Landschaff Building ................................................ 40.00 dynamoelectric principle ..................................... 75.00 779 ............ 280 ............. Coach, Joseph V. Eichendorff, poet ..................... 40.00 967 ............ 527 ............. UNICEF emblem, Nobel Peace Prize................ 100.00 968 ............ 528 ............. W. von Siemens, electrical engineer and inventor ..... 1958 ................................................................................ 50.00 780-81 ...... 281-82 ....... William Busch, humorist, “Max and Moritz” ..... 80.00 783 ............ 284 ............. Rudolf Diesel, inventor .......................................... 50.00 1967 784 ............ 288 ............. Giraffe and Lion, Zoo at Frankfurt ...................... 90.00 969-70 ...... 533-34 ....... Europa................................................................... 125.00 785 ............ 289 ............. View od Old Munich ............................................... 40.00 971 ............ 535 ............. Francis von Taxis, founder of the Taxis postalsystem 786 ............ 291 ............. Market Cross Trier................................................. 40.00 ................................................................................ 45.00 790-91 ...... 295-96 ....... Europa................................................................... 125.00 972 ............ 536 ............. Evangelical Synod ................................................. 35.00 792 ............ 301 ............. Cardinal Nicolaus .................................................... 60.00 973 ............ 537 ............. Freidrich von Bodekschwingh, Bethel Hospita, anti- Nazi ........................................................................ 40.00 1959 976 ............ 544 ............. The Wartburg Eisenach ........................................ 35.00 793 ............ 302 ............. President Theodor Heuss ....................................... 45.00 977 ............ 545 ............. Cross and So. America, German Catholics .......... 35.00 798 ............ 307 ............. Jakob Fugger, business man and banker ................ 40.00 799 ............ 308 ............. Adam Riese, arithmetic teacher, Math ................ 50.00