The low values of this series featured a plowman, a sower, and an allegory of "electricity" - harnessing light to a water wheel. The lower Mark values featured a Madonna and Child.
The high Mark values (shown here) featured Friedrich August von Kaulbach's (1850-1920) "Genius" stamps, which were a symbolic representation of the Bavarian "Free State". The stamps were printed on papers with both the vertical and horizontal wavy lines close together watermarks.
Many denominations of this set also exist imperforate, though they were not officially issued that way. These Bavarian stamps were relatively short-lived though. In April 1920, Bavaria became a member state within the Weimar Republic.
At that time, the current Bavarian definitive and official stamps were overprinted "Deutsches Reich", for use throughout Germany, though most of the issues were used only inside of Bavaria. Since then, regular German postage stamps have been used in Bavaria.
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