OLDENBURG Miscellaneous

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Postal Stationery

1860 Arms inscription 'Post-Couvert' on the left

The 1/2 g, 2 g and the 3 g are here cut to shape (and pasted on a piece of white paper)

  1/2 Gr brown
  1 Gr blue
  2 Gr red
  3 Gr yellow

A facsimile of the 1/2 gr value, printed by F.A.Brockhaus as a 'Konversations-Lexikon'. The yellow part is a Hamburg imitation.

1862 As 1860 issue but 'Post-Couvert' inscription on the right:

  1/2 gr orange
  1 Gr red
  2 Gr blue
  3 Gr brown

Railway stamps

"Oldenburgische Staats- Eisenbahnen" and "Grossh. Oldenb. Staatseisenb."

For more German railway stamps, click here.

Red Cross issue

1945 Red cross (non issued), perforated or rouletted

(Red cross blocks, reduced sizes)

The inscription on these stamps reads:
'JEVER FRIESLAND'
'EINRAUMHAUS KREIS VECHTA'
'SCHLOSS OLDENBURG'
'RATHAUS WILHELMSHAFEN'
etc.

Fiscal Stamps

The first fiscal stamps were issued in Oldenburg in 1868 with inscription "STEMPELMARKE" (no country name).

0,50 Mark and 6 Mark. Stamps in a similar design were issued for Birkenfeld and Saxony.

1868 Value in Groschen or Thaler
  3 g blue
  5 g red
  10 g yellow
  20 g green
  1 Th violet on green
  2 Th violet on green
  5 Th olive and violet
  10 Th olive and violet

1875 Value in Mark
  0,30 Mark blue and grey
  0,50 Mark red and grey
  1 Mark brown and black
  2 Mark green and black
  3 Mark violet and green on green
  6 Mark brown and green on blue
  15 Mark brown and red on green
  30 Mark olive and violet
In 1892 the values 10 M, 18 M, 60 M and 120 M were issued (I haven't seen them).

1906 "STEMPELMARKE HERZOGTUM OLDENBURG"

Many values exist in the above design, they were issued in 1906 ranging from 0,10 Mark to 500 Mark. Stamps in a similar design exist for Birkenfeld.

Forged cancels

According to the Vierteljahrs-Nachträge zum permanenten Handbuch der Postfreimarkenkunde und dem Permanent-Sammelwerk in losen Blättern von Hugo Krötzsch (1896), page 152 (http://www.archive.org), the watchmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer was arrested for applying forged cancels on stamps of Oldenburg. He used genuine cancelling devices to do so. He also assumed the false names Jugen, Ehlers, Hugen, Kuhn, Alberts and Arens. The full text:

Oldenburg. — Stempelfälschungen.
Nachdem wiederum ein nach semen Erzeugnissen „geschicktes" Mitglied der gewaltigen Fälschersippe am 6. August in Stuttgart gefasst worden ist und der junge ,, schmächtige" Mensch mit „magerem" Gesicht, welcher sich als Jugen, Ehlers, Hugen, Kuhn, Alberts oder Arens vorgestellt hatte, als der Uhrmacher Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer erkannt wurde, welcher besonders die Oldenburger Marken als ergiebiges Arbeitsfeld erblickte, hat sich die schon längere Zeit vorher ausgesprochene Vermutung, dass auf Oldenburger Marken alte Originalstempel zu nachträglichen Entwertungen verwendet würden, als richtig erwiesen.

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