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Issue date ( day-month-year) : 02 - 07 - 1944
Design : Prof. Marton
Watermark : None
Perforation : 14
Size :
Printing : Photogravure
Value :
6pf + 4pf dark blue-green...........Duke Albrecht

History and other information :

Albrecht I. Herzog in Prussia: Born in Ansbach.
In 1511 he was made Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Albrecht decided to convert East Prussia to an hereditary duchy, and he was created Duke of Prussia in 1525, and was deposed from the Grand Mastership of the Teutonic Order. He openly showed his
Protestantism by persecuting Catholicism in his lands. He died 20th March 1568
at Tapian in East Prussia.

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