Content of Michel Handbuch Markenheftchen Alliierte Besetzung/Bund/Berlin 2016/2017:

Stamp Booklets with subtypes, company order numbers, type variations, plate flaws, safety prints and much more.

Description:

• New: Hardcover with ribbon bookmark
• New edition after a 6-years break
• Comprehensive rework of the whole reference book
• New: All booklet sheets (MHB) issued by the German Postal Administration are completely illustrated
• Over 20 pages tables with more than 1000 specialized valuations of se-tenants from booklet sheets (MHB)
• Listing of „foil sheets“ (FB = Folienblätter)
• Many revised prices
• Over 2000 coloured illustrations and about 6500 price quotations

The Michel Catalog Plattenfehler Bund/Berlin is a handbook that provides guidance about what can – and cannot – be included in a plate flaw collection. Only deviations confirmed as plate flaws are catalogued. Yet a true plate flaw should be visible. Therefore the MICHEL Editorial Team only presents striking plate flaws that are clearly distinctive to anyone with a 20-20 vision and without a magnifying glass.The discovery of this margin bar variety out of booklet MH 4 is a sensation – the stamp booklet dated from the year 1960!

Up to now the variety 8 Y I RLV VII was found only twice, according to this its price quotation had to be set accordingly high.

Discover more treasures in this edition! 

Image: BRD H-Bl. 8 Y I RLV VII

Target Group:

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

Additional Information:

3^rd edition, in colour
448 pages
Format: 168 mm x 240 mm, Hardcover
First day of sale: October 7, 2016
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-95402-158-1

Press Release

The purpose of the Michel Handbuch Markenheftchen Alliierte Besetzung/Bund/Berlin 2016/2017  (handbook/catalogue Stamp Booklets Allied Occupation, Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin) is to serve as the basic reference book of “contemporary” stamp booklet philately for committed collectors of stamp booklets.

Thus this third edition provides the latest philatelic research findings and market observations regarding the stamp booklet issues that have been issued since 1945. True to detail and comprehensive, this catalogue presents anything worthwhile knowing about subtypes, company order numbers, type variations, plate flaws, safety prints and much more.

As requested by many collectors and dealers, this reference book again lists the self-adhesive “foil sheets“ (FB = Folienbogen) as a separate category as well.

The additional printings on the margins of booklet panes, se-tenants and in stamp booklets are depicted in detail. It contains all verified and documented variations of border lines. Variations that are not available and have not been verified were not included.

Thanks to numerous reactions to the earlier editions of this handbook and the active cooperation of members of the Work Group Markenheftchen (Stamp Booklet) e.V. (akmh), the consortium at the BDPh and collectors of specialized areas, numerous supplements regarding issues of gummed stamps as well as those of self-adhesive stamps could again be included.

Until now it has been difficult for many collectors to identify and categorise the details based on the available descriptions of special stamps. The colour illustrations particularly help to make the search for border line variations and plate flaws easier and provide valuable opportunities to make comparisons.

The 2016/2017 MICHEL handbook/catalogue Stamp Booklets contains all issues that came on the market prior to and including July of 2016. A sub-scription of the monthly collectors’ magazine MICHEL-Rundschau will provide comprehensive information about the novelties issued as of August of 2016.

We want to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the representative of the German Postal System, Mr. Hans Zerbel, as well as to all volunteers, philatelic experts and stamp dealers. Without your help this edition of the handbook/catalogue Stamp Booklets would not have come into being in its presented form. Insofar as numberings of stamp booklet subtypes, plate flaws and variations of border lines have been adopted from the Spezial-Handbuch Markenheftchen by Mr. Horst K. Schmidl, these were used with his permission.

We wish all collectors a lot of joy with their hobby, the stamp booklet philately.

Schwaneberger Verlag

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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Michel Handbuch Markenheftchen Alliierte Besetzung/Bund/Berlin 2016/2017

Inhalt:

Markenheftchen der Alliierten Besetzung ab 1945, Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Berlin mit Deckel- und Druckvarianten

Beschreibung:

• Neu: Mit festem Einband und Lesebändchen
• Neuauflage nach 6-jähriger Pause
• Umfangreiche Überarbeitung des gesamten Nachschlagewerks
• Schließt direkt an das Handbuch Markenheftchen Deutsches Reich an
• Neu: Alle von der Post ausgegebenen Markenheftchenbogen (MHB) werden komplett abgebildet
• Über 20 Seiten Tabellen mit über 1000 spezialisierten Bewertungen von Zusammendrucken aus MHB
• Katalogisierung der Folienblätter bis Juli 2016
• Sehr viele Preisänderungen
• Über 2000 farbige Abbildungen und etwa 6500 Preisnotierungen.

Produktinformation:

3. Auflage, in Farbe
448 Seiten
Format: 168 mm x 240 mm, Hardcover
Erstverkaufstag: 07. Oktober 2016
ISBN: 978-3-95402-158-1Das Auftauchen dieser Randleistenvariante des MH 4 ist eine Sensation – das Heftchen stammt aus dem Jahr 1960!

Da die Variante 8 Y I RLV VII bislang nur zwei Mal gefunden wurde, musste ihr Wert dementsprechend hoch angesetzt werden.

In diesem spannenden Werk lassen sich viele weitere echte Schätze entdecken!

Abbildung: BRD H-Bl. 8 Y I RLV VII

Presse Information

Das MICHEL-Handbuch Markenheftchen Alliierte Besetzung, Bundes-republik und Berlin soll für den engagierten MH-Sammler als das grund-legende Referenzwerk für „moderne“ Marken-heftchen-Philatelie dienen.

So bietet die vorliegende dritte Ausgabe aktuellste philatelistische Forschungsergebnisse und Marktbeobachtungen zu den MH-Ausgaben, die seit 1945 erschienen sind. Detailgenau und umfassend präsentiert der Katalog alles Wissenswerte über Untertypen, HAN, Abarten, Platten-fehler, Sicherheitsaufdrucke und vieles weitere mehr.

Auf vielfachen Wunsch von Sammlern und Händlern werden in diesem Handbuch auch wieder die selbstklebenden „Folienblätter“ (FB) als eigenständige Kategorie gelistet.

Erfasst werden detailliert die Randzudrucke der MH-Bögen auf Heftchenblättern, auf Zusammendrucken und in Markenheftchen. Enthalten sind alle nachgewiesenen und belegten Randleisten-Varianten. Nicht vorliegende und nicht belegte Varianten wurden nicht aufgenommen.

Dank zahlreicher Reaktionen auf die früheren Ausgaben dieses Werkes und der tatkräftigen Mithilfe von Mitgliedern des Arbeitskreises Markenheftchen e.V. (akmh), Arbeitsgemeinschaft im BDPh, und von Spezialsammlern, konnten erneut zahlreiche Ergänzungen aufgenommen werden, sowohl bei den Ausgaben mit nassklebenden als auch bei denen mit selbstklebenden Marken.

Für viele Sammler war es bisher schwierig, aus vorliegenden Beschreibungen von Besonderheiten die Details zu erkennen und einzuordnen. Die Farb-illustrationen erleichtern besonders die Suche nach den Randleisten-Varianten und den Plattenfehlern und bieten wertvolle Vergleichsmöglich-

keiten.

Der MICHEL-Handbuch-Katalog Markenheftchen 2016/2017 erfasst alle Ausgaben, die bis Juli 2016 erschienen sind. Ein Abonnement der monatlichen Sammlerzeitschrift MICHEL-Rundschau garantiert lückenlose Information zu den ab August 2016 erscheinenden Neuheiten.

An dieser Stelle möchten wir uns noch einmal herzlich beim Beauftragten der Deutschen Post, Herrn Hans Zerbel, all den freiwilligen Helfern, Philatelie-experten und Briefmarkenhändlern bedanken, ohne deren Hilfe diese Aus-gabe des Handbuch-Katalog Markenheftchen nicht in der vorliegenden Form zu Stande gekommen wäre.

Soweit Nummerierungen von MH-Untertypen, Plattenfehlern und Rand-leisten-Varianten aus dem „Spezial-Handbuch Markenheftchen“ von Herrn Horst K. Schmidl verwendet werden, erfolgt dieses mit seiner freundlichen Genehmigung.

Allen Sammlerinnen und Sammlern wünschen wir viel Freude bei der Beschäftigung mit ihrem Hobby, der Markenheftchen-Philatelie.

Schwaneberger Verlag

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