German Stamp - What Is This All About..?

Hi guys...Take a look at this German stamp..Is it normal to have all that blue stuff on both sides of the stamp..?

It is granite paper. The original stamp on which the overprint was made was issued in 1916/7 on ordinary paper and 1917/8 on granite. Check the perfs. P12.5 is common; p11.5 is scarce.

Did you run out of Canadian material wert?

That stamps is actually Austrian not German.

The fibres in the paper make this type called granite paper.

Yes- Granite paper.

This one Scott 196 was issued in 1919, therefore for the Republic called
German-Austria for only a short period.

Some papers have these fibres as a protection against the forgery of stamps and currency notes. Dollar bills for example, are printed on paper with small coloured fibres.
Terry

NO lithograving...Still got lots of Canadian stamps to drive you guys crazy with......But, have lots of world stamps that I cant find time to go through.

Thanks for the info guys..

Bamra1, I checked the perforations..It came out to exactly 12.75 x 12.75 perforation.

Wert, keep on trucking! One of these days you will find something good! I wrote an answer on your thread just after you posted it but I do not know what happened to it. I stated that I do not know anything about Auatrian stamps, but Swiss stamps are printed on similar paper. The purpose is security as stated above. On Swiss stamps some color threads are very rare whilst others are very common. Again, I do not know about Austrian stamps, but one never knows!

Peter