Yellow Cathedral

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Yellow Cathedral
Same design, with a different color and value.
Country of production	Germany
Location of production
Date of production	1948
Nature of rarity	unissued, nearly all printed copies were destroyed
Estimated existence	103 (1 sheet à 100 and 3 single stamps)
Face value	5 Pfennig
Estimated value

The Yellow Cathedral (German Gelber Dom) is an unissued stamp produced by the Deutsche Post. Beginning on September 1, 1948, a new stamp series, the so-called "building series", was introduced in the American and British Occupation Zones of Germany. A planned design was the Cologne Cathedral in yellow, with a nominal value of five Pfennig. The stamp was intended to be used as a surcharge stamp for airmail delivery.

The actual issued stamp was blue (Michel catalogue number 75) and all but a few copies of the yellow printed stamps were destroyed. There have been only three known auctions of single stamps.

Between September 20 to 22, 2007 the only complete sheet of stamps was on display at the Cologne fair Philatelie und MünzExpo (Philately and Coin Exposition). The displayed copy was from Bonn's Archive of Philately. The insured value of that sheet is one million euro.

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(In German)

• Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Gelber Dom schlägt blaue Mauritius ("Yellow Cathedral beats Two Pence Blue")
• Bund Deutscher Philatelisten: Sicherheitsstufe 1 für den Briefmarkenbogen "Gelber Dom" (Federation of German Philatelists: Security level 1 for the stamp sheet "Yellow Cathedral")
• Pressemitteilung: Vorsicht: gelb, gezackt und wertvoll! (mit Bildern) (Press release: Attention: yellow, serrated, and precious! (With images))

• This article was initially translated from the Wikipedia article Gelber Dom, specifically from this version.