Content of Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt 2022

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 2021 in a compact format
• Even more colorful: compared to the 2021 edition,  new color images were added to illustrate the Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt 2022 to facilitate the search for stamps
• The Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt 2022 is handy, practical, inexpensive
• Ideal reference book for all collectors from beginners to experienced philatelists and for all ages
• 50th anniversary edition with flaps on cover, including perforation key, separate lists of missing respectively existing items plus an extra MICHEL magnifying glass
• Fully revised, many editorial improvements, such as an updating of the nomenclature of plants based on the current state of botanical research and an additional listing of the first-day sheets of self-adhesive stamp issues complementing the first-day sheets of wet-glue stamps.
• The MICHEL appraisals of all areas were revised and updated, resulting in a particularly large number of adjustments in the collection areas of Old Germany, the German Reich of the 1930s, Sudetenland, occupation during World War II, local issues as of 1945, French Zone and Bizone.
• All novelties presented in MICHEL Rundschau up to 12/2021 have been catalogued
• More than 9000 colour photos and approx. 32,500 price quotations

The first edition of the MICHEL Junior catalogue only contained the highly popular German collection areas. However, it was the first catalogue with colour photos, and boxes next to the prices also served as a checklist for missing items. Needless to say that the 50th anniversary edition also presents all stamps in colour; it features all German collection areas, and even the checklist for missing issues has been part of it again since 2020 – yet in the form of a separate booklet that does not interfere with the cataloguing. The Junior has included the French Zone from the start, and of course Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has always made his appearance repeatedly on the catalogue pages (in all colours, sizes and featured from every angle). MiNo. 47 to No. 49 on the occasion of his 200th birthday still enjoy great popularity even in 2021: The price revision has shown a higher value of all three issues of the set. Whether it is Goethe or our Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt – classics never go out of style! Photo: French Zone Baden MiNo. 47-49

The Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt 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: Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt 2022
Edition: 50th edition, in color
Pages: 680
Format: 115 mm x 188 mm, paperback
With flaps on cover, list of missing and existing items and extra magnifying glass
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Publication date: 03 December 2021
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-95402-377-6

Press Release:

At first glance, there is no close connection between the old coat of arms of the State of Thuringia, a postal station sign of the Royal Mail of Wurttemberg, the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in Munich and Lake Wannsee in Berlin. And yet there is a connection. These four stamp motifs embellish the cover of the first edition of the MICHEL Junior catalogue, which celebrates its fiftieth edition under the name of MICHEL Germany Compact in 2021.

The first edition of the Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt was a rather moderate volume, consisting of 196 pages and containing the collection areas of German Reich, joint issues, French Zone, Bizone, Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany – those areas that, according to the preface of the first edition, were “mostly collected”. Boxes next to the price quotations of each issue served as a checklist of missing issues as well. And: the stamps of the featured areas were depicted in colour for the first time.

Today the Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt consists of nearly 700 pages and well over 9000 colour pictures, presenting all of Germany’s collection areas from 1849 until today. The checklist for missing and existing items has become a separate publication with over 100 pages and a coloured price code, and since 2020 the flaps on the inside of the cover provide a perforation key that allows for precise perforation measurements.

The 2022 Edition lists the first-day sheets of self-adhesive stamps issued by the F.R.G. for the first time; they complement the first-day sheets of wet-glue postage stamps. The collection themes of botany and fairy tales have been categorized; the nomenclature of plants has been adapted to the latest state of botanical research. And of course detailed market studies were conducted again so as to keep the price quotations updated – the most vivid price fluctuations were found in the collection areas of Old Germany, the German Reich of the 1930s, Sudetenland, occupation during World War II, local issues starting with 1945, French Zone and Bizone.

On the occasion of the fiftieth edition, the 2022 Michel Catalog Deutschland Kompakt comes with a magnifying glass that helps us to get us as close as possible to our collection items – be they the coat of arms issues of the years 1925 to 1929, the Berlin sceneries or the Church of Our Lady stamps of the building series of 1948.

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The Editorial Team

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