Content of Michel Catalog Briefe Deutschland 2016/2017:

Cover valuation for the areas Old German States, North German Confederation, German Empire, Local Issues of 1923, Foreign Post Offices, Colonies and Ship Post Abroad, Occupation Issues of World War I, Plebiscite areas, Gdansk, Memel, Bohemia and Moravia, General Government, Sudetenland, Occupation Issues of World War II, Field Post Stamps, German Local Issues from 1945 on, Allied Occupation Issues, joint issues, Berlin and Brandenburg, Soviet Occupation Zone (SOZ), German Democratic Republic (GDR), Berlin (West), Saarland, French Occupation Zone, American and British Occupation Zone (Bi-Zone), Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

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Description:

• New edition after a 4-year-break!
• Completely revised
• Complete revision of the part „Occupation Issues of World War II“ (Deutsche Besetzungsausgaben 1939/45) as well as other areas
• Numerous re-evaluations of documents, e.g. on issues of the “Allied Occupation Zones after World War II” (Alliierte Besetzung nach 1945)
• Three types of valuation: EF = single franking, MeF = multiple franking, MiF = mixed franking; on many issues still additional valuation types
• New issues cataloguing until October 2016.
• Over 13'300 images and about 47'000 price quotations

The 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: Briefe Deutschland 2016/2017
19^th edition, in colour
1312 pages
Format: 155 x 230 mm, Hardcover
First day of sale: November 4, 2016
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-95402-159-8"How many correctly franked covers with multiple franking may be really there?" This asks the "Auction Galleries Hamburg" on their website and give themselves immediately the answer with their auction result: Obviously very few. Such an airmail letter sent in 1960 was valuated in the current MICHEL Covers Germany at € 2.000 (the sevenfold of the previous value) after its auction in September 2016. This exemplar, which is almost completely covered by two Beethoven miniature sheets, is also in an unusually good condition.

Image: Auction Galleries Hamburg

Press Release:

The Michel Catalog Briefe Deutschland 2016/2017 contains the most current information for collectors of postal history from the numerous collection areas of Germany. Starting with the German States of the past, continuing with the quickly changing postal fee periods of the inflationary year of 1923, the numerous German colonies, territories occupied by Germany during two world wars and the foreign occupation of Germany after these wars, and ending with the current German stamp issues, it deals with more than 160 years of German history and the history of the German postal system.

A complete revision of areas created an additional volume of about 30 more pages. The territories occupied by Germany during World War II have been highlighted. In addition, however, you will find considerable revisions that reflect the current philatelic expert knowledge. All new stamp issues up to October 2016 have been included.

The new higher format as well as the solid cover with the ribbon are additional improvements, providing convenient space for notes on many pages, which is particularly helpful when working with this volume.

There is a vast number of new appraisals of covers throughout the volume, starting with Old Germany and ending with the current issues, particularly regarding the issues of the zones occupied by the Allies after World War II. Here you will also find a considerable number of newly discovered usages, though there are certainly still plenty of them to be discovered in the future.

We learned about one interesting item concerning the area of the Federal Republic of Germany as late as in September. At the beginning of September a correctly prepaid cover with two times block 2 (Beethoven miniature sheet) was sold during an auction for a price that is seven times as high as the former appraisal, showing that extraordinary collectors’ items may yield extraordinary prices, too.

We wish to thank our numerous assistants who helped us put this volume together for their selfless support. Without their assistance a book like this one could not have been published.

We hope that all collectors will find new ideas for their collections in this volume. Many collectors find collecting letters and other postal history items to be even more fascinating than merely collecting stamps. There are always surprising discoveries to be made.

Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
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 Catalog Briefe Deutschland 2016/2017

Inhalt:

Briefbewertungen für Altdeutschland, Norddeutscher Bund, Deutsches Reich, Deutsche Lokalausgaben 1922/23, Deutsche Auslandspostämter, Deutsche Kolonien, Deutsche Schiffspost im Ausland, Deutsche Besetzungsausgaben 1914/18, Deutsche Abstimmungsgebiete, Danzig (Freie Stadt), Memelgebiet, Böhmen und Mähren, Generalgouvernement, Sudetenland, Deutsche Besetzungsausgaben 1939/45, Feldpostmarken, Alliierte Besetzung Gemeinschaftsausgaben, Berlin und Brandenburg, Sowjetische Zone, DDR , Berlin (West), Postkrieg, Saarland, Französische Zone, Amerikanische und britische Zone, BRD, OPD Saarbrücken.

Beschreibung:

• Neuauflage nach 4-jähriger Pause!
• Überarbeitung des gesamten Nachschlagewerks
• Vollständige Neubearbeitung des Abschnitts „Deutsche Besetzungsausgaben 1939/45“ sowie weiterer Gebiete
• Zahlreiche Neubewertungen von Belegen, z.B. bei Ausgaben der Alliierten Besatzungszonen nach dem 2. Weltkrieg
• Drei Bewertungsarten: EF = Einzelfrankatur, MeF = Mehrfachfrankatur, MiF = Mischfrankatur; bei vielen Ausgaben noch weitere Bewertungsarten
• Neuheiten-Katalogisierung bis Oktober 2016.
• Über 13 300 Abbildungen und ca. 47 000 Preisnotierungen

Produktinformation:

Edition: 19. Aufl., in Farbe
Seiten: 1312
Format: 155 mm x 230 mm, Hardcover
Verlag: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum: 4 November 2016