Content of Michel Catalog Deutschland 2023-2024

Old Germany, Northern German Confederation and German Reich, foreign post offices, colonies, foreign maritime mail, occupation issues, plebiscite areas, Belgian military mail in Rhineland, Eupen, Malmédy, Gdansk, Memel, Bohemia and Moravia, general government, Sudetenland, field post issues, local issues, Allied Occupation, GDR, Berlin (West), Saarland with OPD issues, Federal Republic of Germany.

Details

• This 110th anniversary edition comes with a MICHEL watermark table and collectible postcard
• Old Germany’s stamps in colour: In this new edition, all issues from Baden and Oldenburg present themselves in colour!
• New watermark and overprint variations were discovered in classic and contemporary collection areas!
• Many other editorial improvements, such as additional information on engravers and designers for the areas of Bohemia and Moravia, Control Council, French Zone, Bizone and Federal Republic of Germany, new main numbers of occupied France, additional numbers of issue regarding the special stamps issued by the Federal Republic of Germany as well as additional information about the cross comb perforations from GDR, complement this anniversary edition!
• Significant price changes can be found in numerous areas of Old Germany concerning the stamp booklets issued by the German Reich, German maritime mail, occupation issues from World Wars I and II, plebiscite areas, Eupen and Malmédy, Sudetenland, local issues from 1945, general issues of SBZ and obligatory tax stamps for building residences – socalled “Wohnungsbau-FDCs” – up to the younger first-day sheets issued by the F.R.G.
• More than 11,900 high-resolution colour pictures and approx. 67,000 appraisals
• Novelties up to and including MICHEL Rundschau No. 6/2023

In 1859 the Duchy of Oldenburg issued its second set of stamps. These four issues show the national coat of arms with the crown in the oval, as well as ornaments and the nominal values – depicted in figures on the sides and in letters on the bottom. Though MiNo. 6 for this one-Groschen stamp with over 800,000 issued specimens is by far the most common value, its appraisal has considerably increased since the previous edition of the MICHEL Germany. For that reason it is an even greater pleasure for collectors to be able to admire this exquisite stamp in ”lively grey-blue to greyultramarine“ in colour in this latest edition.Photo: Oldenburg MiNo. 6

Additional Information

• 110th edition, in colour
• 1184 pages
• 155 mm x 230 mm, hardcover
• On sale: 7 July 2023
• ISBN: 978-3-95402-443-8

Target Group

Stamp collectors specialized in issues of Germany and German colonies and territories abroad , experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Press Release

The Grand Duchies of Baden and Oldenburg are facing each other diametrically on a North-South axis through Old Germany. While Oldenburg in the Northern German lowland borders on the North Sea and is surrounded by the Kingdom of Hanover, Baden shares borders with Switzerland, France, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wuerttemberg.

From the philatelic point of view, these two Old German states, which are so different from each other, also went their own ways. In Baden, the first four postage stamps were issued on May 1st, 1851; as in Bavaria two years before, the selected motifs were the garnished numbers of their postal value set in a square frame. The stamps were printed in book-print. Nine months later, Oldenburg launched two lithograph issues in a long format, which depict the state’s coat of arms with crown and shield with postage value. In the Year 1860 Baden followed with its own coat of arms design with griffins and crown. Both grand duchies are presented in the Michel Catalog Deutschland 2023/2024 with a large number of new colour photos of all main numbers, celebrating the beauty of their postage stamps.

Coloured paper, a delicate print, a precise embossment – all that creates the visual effect of any stamp. Yet first of all the designers are the ones who characterize the image of a stamp. The new Michel Catalog Deutschland 2023/2024 edition takes this into account, providing valuable additional information about the engravers and designers who worked for the collection areas of Bohemia and Moravia, Control Council, the French Zone, the Bizone and the F.R.G.

There are lots of new discoveries waiting for fans of extraordinary details in the Michel Catalog Deutschland 2023/2024, such as newly registered watermark and overprint variations in the classic as well as the contemporary collection areas, new main numbers for occupied France, additional information about the cross comb perforations issued by the G.D.R., the numbers of issue of the special issues of the F.R.G. in 2022 – and of course, as always, the latest postage stamp issues of Deutsche Post AG up to and including June of this year. MICHEL Rundschau, the monthly philatelic journal, keeps you informed about any future novelties.

The most striking price changes were found in the collection areas of Old Germany, stamp booklets issued during the Third Reich, German maritime mail, occupation issues during World Wars I and II, plebiscite areas, Eupen and Malmédy, Sudetenland, local issues 1945, general issues of SBZ, the obligatory tax stamps for building residences – so-called “Wohnungsbau- FDCs” – and the more recently issued first-day sheets of F.R.G.

There is a lot to read – about ancient grand duchies and brand-new postage stamps. So dive into the world of German philately!

Schwaneberger Publishing House
The Editorial Team

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