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Posted 07/20/2025   11:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Jojomojo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello I'm new to this exciting journey of stamp collecting and have been gifted this piece of curious heaven. I've found ones just like it on multiple sights but most is ebay which doesn't give me good idea of true value of it. Can someone help me ??
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Posted 07/20/2025   11:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is what is called a Germania, a stamp from Germany. There are several printings and watermarks.

https://www.germanstamps.net/collection-search/

Look for face value 10, colour red, and years from 1902.
Also note is says Deutsches Reich at the bottom.

The cancellation is for the town of DÜREN.

Unfortunately, those brownish spots on the perforation tips at the top are a bad thing.
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Edited by NSK - 07/20/2025 11:42 am
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Posted 07/20/2025   12:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Parcelpostguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
good idea of true value of it.


Next to zero.
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Posted 07/20/2025   5:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Next to zero.


Unless of course you or your family are from Duren, when the discovery provides pleasure that cannot have a monetary value attached
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Posted 07/20/2025   9:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Parcelpostguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Unless of course you or your family are from Duren, when the discovery provides pleasure that cannot have a monetary value attached


I don't dispute the non-monetary value that can accrue to an otherwise momentarily worthless item, but the OP made it clear they are looking at the cash out value as noted by the online search of sales sights sites. One does not look there for sentimental value.

No, for the OP it is all about the Benjamins.
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Edited by Parcelpostguy - 07/20/2025 11:51 pm
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Posted 07/20/2025   9:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fair play Parcelpostguy.

The OP is therefore in the wrong caper I'd suggest. But we all have to start somewhere
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Posted 07/21/2025   03:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Presumably Germania is sheathing her sword, having used it to trim the shrubbery she's standing next to (try holding your sword with your hand in the same position).
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Posted 07/21/2025   03:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The allegory of the olive branch around the raised Imperial Sword reflects the ideal of balancing diplomacy and defence. The olive branch itself symbolises the willingness to make peace.
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Edited by NSK - 07/21/2025 03:42 am
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Posted 07/21/2025   05:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That explains the gesture; Germania is partially unsheathing her sword to show the potentiality of armed defence.

In her knapsack a bundle of railway timetables, a present from Alfred von Schlieffen.
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