DDR - Are These Stationeries?

1) Are these stationaries or stamp fair publications?

2) I didn't see them at stampworld - what catalog will include them?

3) Also, though not planning to sell them, what do they worth?

4) Last question: I typed DDR in the topic, but it was changed automatically to Ddr - how do I prevent that?

Hi Rob Roy,

Yes, these are all East German postcards issued by the post office.

The Michel Ganszachen-Katalog Deutschland catalogue lists them.

Thanks, Nigelc

What about the bottom left postcard? It refers to a stamp exhibition in Szombathely Hungary. So where was it issued?

This card was issued in East Germany like the others.

It was issued on 25th April 1978 to celebrate SOZPHILEX 78, an "international stamp exhibition of socialist countries" in Szombathely in Hungary.

Thanks
off topic (or ephemera?):
Szombathely means Saturday's place. A years before that exhibition, was the premiere of "Saturday night fever" - szombatláz (more accurately szombat-esti-láz).

They have minimal commercial value if you were to try to sell them. Their value is in the amount of fun you as a collector can have collecting them and learning about the subjects they commemorate. A dealer might ask $3 to $5 for one but most of that value is for the dealer to recover the cost of their time and effort in finding a buyer and in selling it, including the profit they must make to stay in business, provide for their family, and make profits for their futures. If you were to offer it for stale to the dealer they would not likely pay anything for it as they can buy them in large quantities for wholesale prices and they have few buyers who want them. You also can buy these wholesale for very little. Here is an ebay auction to watch - the seller is offering a group of 300 of these with a starting bid of $20. See the ending price of this auction and you will get an idea of they would be worth in terms of what you could sell them for.

whathttps://www.ebay.com/itm/DDR-East-G...cectupt=true