Why oh why those crazy East Germans thought it appropriate to drink a glass of beer before racing an ambulance on a motorcycle I'll never know. And why oh why they'd celebrate such irresponsibility on a stamp is beyond me. Thankfully, we now all live in more enlightened times. Even the East Germans.
The text below the red stamp says that "even one glass is too much."
Posted by: Peter | 01 April 2009 at 07:34 AM
The text on the stamp says "Even one glass is one too many", makes more sense now?
Posted by: Dagonet | 01 April 2009 at 07:36 AM
Stumbled across an interesting article on Britain’s first brand, this morning.
http://www.jkr.co.uk/design-gazette/2009/04/a-stitch-in-time/
Posted by: Giles | 01 April 2009 at 09:58 AM
Thanks for the translations (I kind of knew that really. Kind of knew the East Germans weren't that silly).
Posted by: Richard | 01 April 2009 at 10:21 AM
Yeah, but Germans are silly in the sense that they — and especially working men — absolutely don‘t shy from having a half liter of lager for breakfast.
In fact it used to be included in the contract at factories and so on that the employees would get acertain amount of beers, spread over the day and starting with breakfast.
Makes for a happy workforce, one would think…
Posted by: Bert Vanderveen | 01 April 2009 at 11:38 AM
First and foremost was the state GDR (East Germany) in the responsibility to teach his people for a better world. And we used each possibility for communication action. Paper was very scarce. So we used stamps - which of course also have been paid by the people himself - as a warning sign. Very clever and also very beautiful.
Posted by: Robert | 01 April 2009 at 02:11 PM
Hi Robert, many thanks for your comment. Yes, they are beautiful stamps. Finding quite a few really amazing stamps from GDR.
Posted by: Richard | 01 April 2009 at 02:18 PM
Ooh - love these stamps - very bold!
Posted by: Lynne, Tea for Joy | 11 April 2009 at 11:14 AM