During my visit
to Berlin in February 2017 I visited the Museum für Kommunikation in the
Leipziger Straße 16. It is an enormous building with a wonderful collection of
stamps, letterboxes, communication devices and a large exhibition on the
history of writing and communication.
In the museum shop
on the ground floor there is a letterbox where you can post a card or letter to
be stamped with the special museum postmark. The museum website does not
mention this postmark, so most people discover the mailbox when they visit the
shop. Some time ago I discovered in an old edition of the German postmark news
(on the website of Deutsche Post) that you can also order that postmark and
some others directly from the Sonderstempelstelle in Berlin. And of course I
did that immediately.
The postmark has
the words Museum für Kommunikation,
the place 10117 Berlin and an image
of the Brandenburger Tor and in front of it a signal mast from the Prussian
semaphore system (1832-1849).
For this
postmark I used the normal 90 cent definitive from the flower series.
Website of the
Museum für Kommunikation in Berlin (in German): mfk-berlin.de.
Date sent: 20
April 2017
Date postmark: 27
April 2017
Date received: 3
May 2017
Number of days:
13
Envelope in
collection: 26
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