624 - Enamel sign "POSTAMT" of the Deutsche Bundespost, black eagle on yellow ground, official sign

Enamel sign "POSTAMT" of the Deutsche Bundespost, black eagle on yellow ground, official sign Metal, enamelled in three colours, post office enamel sign of the Deutsche Bundespost in portrait format. Yellow ground with red border, black eagle as national emblem with spread wings, red tongue and red talons, below the lettering "POSTAMT" in Antiqua capitals. Four mounting holes with metal eyelets in the corners, reverse black. Good condition commensurate with age. 42x29.5 cm (HxW). Signs of this kind marked post offices, post office branches and letter acceptance points until the 1980s. The stylised black eagle on a yellow ground goes back to the tradition of the Reichspost and was adopted by the Deutsche Bundespost as its emblem. The Deutsche Bundespost bore its name from 1950; with the postal reform of 1989 it was divided into Postdienst, Postbank and Telekom and in 1995 converted into the public limited companies Deutsche Post, Deutsche Postbank and Deutsche Telekom.