Content of Michel Catalog Deutschland junior 2018 catalog:

Old German States, German Empire, Foreign Post Offices, Colonies, Occupation Issues of WW I and II, Plebiscite Areas (with Saar), Gdansk, Memel, Bohemia and Moravia, General Government, Sudetenland, Field Post Stamps, Local Issues, Allied Occupation (joint issues, Berlin and Brandenburg, Soviet Occupation Zone, French Occupation Zone, American and British Occupation Zone), GDR, West Berlin, Saarland, FRG

Description:

• Content: The classic and modern postmarks from the "One Kreuzer Black" of 1849 to the latest issues of Deutsche Post AG in 2017
• Main focus of the Michel Catalog Deutschland Junior 2018 edition: Occupied France during World War II and Field Post Stamps.
• Even more colourful: Compared to the 2017 edition, about 500 new colour images illustrate the Michel Catalog Deutschland Junior 2018 to facilitate the search for stamps
• The Junior Germany catalog is handy, practical, inexpensive
• Ideal reference book for all collectors from beginners to experienced philatelists and for all ages
• Price movements especially within the areas of Old German States, North German Confederation, Colonies, Sudetenland, Occupation Issues of World War II, Field Post Stamps, Local Issues from 1945 on, Soviet Occupation Zone, issues of the early GRD and French Occupation Zone.
• Incl. issue dates and prices in various conditions
• Size specifications for mounts
• Including international sales results
• Around 8'200 pictures and over 32'000 quotations
• Price increases particularly in collection areas like Germany, occupation issues, plebiscite areas, Memel, Sudetenland, locals and SBZ
• New Releases cataloging up to MiR 11/2017

That is the real “German Philately “: On the stamps of the series „Nature-orientated Germany“ the beauty of both famous and lesser-known German landscapes is shown in impressive colour photographs to collector.

Therefore a clear reference book with many new images is even more important. This makes it easy to find all the stamps you are looking for. Series like these almost invite, to browse, in the MICHEL and to dream – here from the legendary Hessian Reinhardswald.

Image: FRG MiNr. 3342The catalog is organized according to collection areas. Cataloging within these sections is chronological, based on issue date. Special stamp types, like official stamps, are located at the end of a collection area section. In order to assist collectors organize their stamps, numerous illustrations are provided, as well as information on similar stamps to help avoid possible mix-ups.

Target Group:

Stamp collectors specialized in stamps of Germany, experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Additional Information:

Title: Deutschland junior 2018
Edition: 46th edition, in color
Pages: 620
Format: 115 mm x 188 mm, paperback
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Publication Date: December 8, 2017
Language: German
ISBN: 9783954022243

Press Release:

The stamps of the “Nature.orientated Germany“ series have been issued since July 1st, 2013. The impressive colour photographs of the series open windows to Germany’s nature, which is well worth protecting. We gaze at the Alps at Berchtesgaden, the “Teufelstisch” rock and the “Schrammsteine” cliffs or the mystical “Reinhardswald” forest in Hesse. These stamps are simply beautiful, and we have repeatedly made them Stamps of the Month in the MICHEL Rundschau magazine!

Dear collectors, of course the aesthetic side of philately is not everything. The postal, political and social background as well as the market trend of any stamp is surely interesting as well. Yet what good would a stamp reference book be without any illustrations? It would certainly be a lot more tedious to find the stamps we are looking for, and it would obviously not be as much fun to browse through it.

And that is why we have considerably boosted the Michel catalog Deutschland Junior 2018: Approximately 500 additional colour pictures illustrate this reference work – particularly the collection areas of inflation, colonies, Allied Occupation stamps in World War One, Plebiscite Areas, the Soviet Occupation Zone, GDR, Saarland and the French Zone have become distinctly more colourful. Of course the latest issues of the German Postal System up to and including November of 2017 are each presented in words and images. All subsequent stamp new issues as well as exciting philatelist background information can be found in MICHEL Rundschau, the monthly magazine for researchers and collectors.

Two collection areas from the era of World War Two have been particularly thoroughly revised as to their contents: the issues for France Occupied by Germany and the German Field Post Stamps. The former three-and-a-half pages with 19 illustrations have thus been expanded to seven pages with almost 60 colour illustrations.

MICHEL Germany Junior currently contains 31,700 price quotations, all of which have been revised and updated to reflect the current market prices. Lively price fluctuations were particularly noted in the collection areas of Old Germany, Northern German Confederation, the German Colonies, Sudetenland, German Occupation in World War II, Field Post, Local Issues starting with 1945, the Soviet Occupation Zone as well as the early years of GDR and the French Occupation Zone.

Dear collectors, now we don’t want to keep you away from your stamps any longer. We hope you have lots of fun researching and looking up stamps – and browsing through this work!

Schwaneberger Publishing House

The Editorial Team

MICHEL provides top-quality information for collectors

Thanks to decades of experience and constant revision, the MICHEL catalogs are unmatched in terms of lay-out, comprehensiveness, accuracy and production. MICHEL catalogues provide all key information on stamps, postal stationary and coins. The systematic collection of data on collectable items, a well-organised system and detailed illustrations ensure easy use and a quick way to find required information. Each new edition of a MICHEL catalog is completely revised, updated and expanded so that it always reflects the latest situation on the market.

Users of the MICHEL catalogs value the comprehensive and detailed listings of collectable items. The MICHEL catalogs are among the best in the world when it comes to details, comprehensiveness and illustration. MICHEL products have been awarded well over 600 medals (including 31 gold), diplomas and honorary prizes in the course of the company’s history. The expertise of the Schwaneberger publishing house’s staff is outstandingly represented in the MICHEL catalogs.

The colourful, varied range of products includes standard and special-edition catalogues for Germany, Europe and overseas. There is also philatelic literature, the MICHEL-Exklusiv album, the MICHEL Colour Guide, the MICHEL-Lux examination lamp and the MICHEL-Rundschau monthly magazine. More than 85 different products in total.

MICHEL also enjoys a good reputation in electronic publishing thanks to various software programs, websites and e-catalogs. It is no wonder that the MICHEL catalogs have been known for years as the “philatelists’ bible”. However, bearing this accolade brings with it the responsibility of always remaining at the top with regard to quality.

The 669,000th MICHEL catalog number was issued recently. A look at the most important of the 85 different MICHEL catalogs reveals that the catalogues for Europe and overseas alone make up some 25,000 catalog pages. They contain 314,000 pictures and 1,800,000 price quotations. Most of this information is stored in powerful picture and text databases and is consulted, revised and corrected for each new edition of a MICHEL catalog. And of course that also applies to each individual page, irrespective of which MICHEL catalog it comes from. MICHEL goes to great lengths on its customers’ behalf. MICHEL’s editorial team spends an average of 45 minutes on research for each new set of stamps. Around 18,000 new stamps appear each year, which are then catalogued and published in the MICHEL-Rundschau, as well as in the relevant MICHEL catalog and online catalogue.

100 years of the MICHEL catalogue

It is more than 100 years since the stamp dealer Hugo MICHEL from Apolda in Thüringen published the first MICHEL stamp catalogue in 1909. He thereby created a product that would be continually be improved, but never surpassed. In the same year, publisher and philatelic editor Hugo Schwaneberger founded a publishing company that bore his name. The philatelist, who was well known in his field, created the Schwaneberger Album, the first album to adopt a scientific approach.
Owing to the great demand for MICHEL catalog, Hugo MICHEL was no longer able to dedicate himself to his career as a stamp dealer. He therefore sold the rights to the publisher Schwaneberger. The catalogue, which had only covered Europe until that point, was expanded by the new publishing house to include overseas countries.

Hugo MICHEL continued to edit the catalogue supplement, which is today known as the MICHEL-Rundschau. The company was then bought by the publisher Eugen Berlin. He moved it to Munich in 1950 where he came across a company, the Carl Geber printing works (now the Gerber Satz und Gerber publishing house) that was able to draw up the complicated catalogue typesetting. The publishing rights went to the Hohenester/Gerber families who assigned them to the publishing house, now trading as the “Schwaneberger Verlag”.

At the turn of the century other stamp catalogues had already appeared, but the remarkable success of the MICHEL catalog was attributed to its sophisticated and comprehensive cataloguing system. The stamps were numbered successively from the first number for each country, yet at the same time organised according to various sub-categories and genres, and described as fully as possible. This system was refined over the years and adapted where necessary - but never had to be changed! In fact, the MICHEL numbering system has become standard in Germany. This is underscored by the numerous licence contracts that the Schwaneberger Verlag has concluded with other publishers. All stock lists of German dealers are organised according to the MICHEL numbering system. Collectors exchange, buy and sell using MICHEL numbers.

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