[GreenKeys] 1953 DDR teleprinter postage stamp

[dmm at lemur.com]

Here's another TTY-related tidbit - perhaps interesting, even if 
unimportant.  It is a 15 pfennig postage stamp from the DDR (East Germany)
depicting a teleprinter keyboard operator.  A little quick research indicates
that it is Scott No. 161, and that it was issued in 1953 as a part of a set
of 18 stamps for a five-year plan (this is the '5' in the stamp,
I would think).  Here's a scan of it:

http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/telegraphy/tty1/gallery/stamps/teletype-stamp-DDR-sc161-postsdam-cto-1200rgb-rot0p7cw-crop-1158x1336.jpg

A check of Wikimedia Commons indicates that postage stamps of Germany
(and of the former DDR) are "official works" and in the public domain.
I scanned this one from an original that I just got, and the scan is
PD as well.  So if anyone wants a 1953 iron curtain teleprinter operator
stamp for, say, embellishing a web page - have fun.

Regards,
David M.
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