Bavaria

Bavaria, or Bayern, was a kingdom and is now a province in the south of what is Germany today.

 File:Bav numer one.jpg|1849 1 kreuzer File:Bav 3kr broken.jpg|1849 3kr value. Note broken circle and framelines. File:Bav 9kr grn.jpg|1850 9kr value. File:Bav 12pf arms iperf.jpg|1862 12pf value file:Bav arms imperf 1M.jpg|1874 1 mark value 
 * In 1849, a 1 kreuzer numeral design was issued, inscribed BAYERN / FRANCO. It has been forged and cancels have been forged also.
 * In 1849, 3kr and 6kr designs were issued with the numeral of value in a broken circle . These have been forged.
 * In 1850, the 3kr was issued in a modified design with the circle unbroken.
 * Also in 1850, five values were issued in similar designs with the circle unbroken. The 6kr value is known bisected; this has been forged.
 * In 1862, stamps in new colors were issued.
 * In 1862, a new issue with an embossed coat of arms was issued, imperf. In 1868, a 6kr in new color and 7kr value were issued. All stamps have a silk thread thorugh them (Dickinson paper).
 * In 1870, perf 11½ values were issued, now watermarked with either vertical narrow intersecting wavy lines or vertical widely spaced intersecting wavy lines.

 File:Bav arms last.jpg|1888 20pf value 
 * In 1876, the embossed arms design was issued again, now denominated in pfennigs. Two larger mark values were also issued. All of these are watermarked with wide horizontal wavy lines.
 * In 1881, pfennig and a 1 mark value were issued on paper watermarked with narrow vertical wavy lines.
 * In 1888, embossed arms designs were again issued, now perf 14½ and with a different watermark. These and the following issues are on toned or white paper.
 * In 1890, four values in new colors were issued. A new (larger) 2m value was also released (vertical wavy lines watermark).
 * In 1900, new values were issued.
 * Also in 1900, 3m and 5m values were issued.
 * In 1911, four mark values were issued on paper watermarked with horizontal wavy lines.


 * Also in 1911, new designs with the portrait of Prince Luitpold were issued. THe mark values are in much larger designs and exist in two types.
 * In 1911, bicolor designs with cherubs flanking Luitpold's portrait were issued.
 * In 1914, three new definitive designs were issued.
 * In 1916, the wartime printing was issued with a rougher printing and thicker gum, among other factors.
 * In 1916, six values were issued in new colors including a 2½pf on 2pf surcharge.
 * In 1919, contemporary German definitives were overprinted Freistaat / Bayern in fraktur.
 * Also in 1919, the previous Bavarian designs were issued overprinted Freistaat / Bayern in fraktur also. These exist perf and imperf.

 File:Bav 20 profile.jpg|1911 10pf definitive File:Bav 60pf 3 4 to left.jpg|1911 60pf definitive file:Bav 1911 20M.jpg|1911 20m definitive File:Bav 10pf Jubilee.jpg|1911 10pf Jubilee File:Bav 75pf Freistaat on Germ.jpg|1919 75pf value 

 File:Bavaria volkstaat.jpg|1919 Volksstaat overprint File:Bav 1919 semi.jpg|1919 5pf on 10pf semipostal File:Bav 1920 5pf farmer.jpg|1920 5pf value File:Bav 50pf sower.jpg|1920 50pf value File:Bav 1920 1.25m.jpg|1920 1¼m value file:Bav 5M 1920.jpg|1920 5m value 
 * Again in 1919, perf and imperf Bavarian stamps of 1914-16 were overprinted Volksstaat / Bayern in fraktur.
 * Semipostals were issued in 1919 surcharged with new values and für kriegs= / beichädigte / Freistaat / Bayern
 * In 1919, three values were surcharged.
 * In 1920, a 20pf on old 3pf embossed arms stamp was issued.
 * Also in 1920, a new series featuring various figures was issued in five different designs. Stamps overprinted "Deutsches Reich" were valid throughout Germany after this issue was made obsolete.
 * Stamps of Germany were used after June 1920.

See

 * Bavarian back of the book issues
 * E, railroad officials
 * Germany, a disambiguation page
 * German states, a disambiguation page

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