Michel catalog CEPT 2024/2025 / post-Europe countries 

All joint issues of CEPT respectively PostEurop countries, including forerunner and sympathy/follower issues and official stamps issued for the Council of Europe, as well as NORDEN, RSS, SEPAC, UPAEP, EFTA and CSCE joint issues

New edition: newly compiled popular information for collectors; status of the current Europe catalogues of 2024 and the 2024/2025 Germany catalogue.

Details

• This edition contains several changes. The MICHEL Editorial Team has focused intensively on the concept of the CEPT catalogue and agreed to significantly filter the catalogue contents due to the increasing scope of the previous editions. Limiting the catalogue to joint issues has made this edition pleasantly compact, offering collectors a clear focus as well as an outstanding overview of their CEPT collections. One’s own collection is a very individual matter, yet in the future we do not want to include other associations or clubs that focus on postal administrations nor any followers, which are always controversial, under “CEPT”. This edition again features the preceding issues, CEPT joint issues as well as the official stamps of the Council of Europe. For our readers’ convenience, the Europe issues have been sorted by year of issue, thus presenting the issues of the countries that feature a common theme next to each other.  Due to the theme of the catalogue, this arrangement has worked well in the past and will therefore be maintained in future editions. All data sets have been updated; their contents and processing status correspond to the data sets of the respective Germany, Europe and Overseas catalogues.
• You will also find lots of new details regarding Europe issues: postal stationery and several vending machine stamps with the relevant motifs round off the chapter
• About 5700 photos and more than 22,000 price quotations

Target Group:

Stamp collectors specialized in issues of CEPT / Post-Europe countries, experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Additional Information:

Edition: 46th
Pages: approx. 600
Format: 150 mm x 225 mm, paperback
Publishing House: Schwaneberger Verlag
Release date: 6 September 2024
ISBN: 9783954024490How to enjoy your Mediterranean holidays even in times of Corona: The newly included joint issues of the Mediterranean countries, EuroMed Postal, add Mediterranean flair to this new CEPT catalogue.

MiNo. 5272 from the Spanish series “Mediterranean Houses“, for instance, depicts Finca Raixa, a beautiful example of the neoclassical architecture of Majorca.

Press Release MICHEL Catalog CEPT 2021

The Michel Catalog CEPT was originally meant to be a motif catalogue covering the European Union with a special focus on the CEPT joint issues, which gave the catalogue its name and are also called Europe issues, complemented by a selection of other special stamps issued for EFTA, CSCE and even NATO, which are linked to the theme.

Soon the NORDEN joint issues of the Scandinavian countries were added. By now, however, there are several other associations of postal administrations that also provide joint issues on various themes. These are represented and fully catalogued in this edition for the first time, with the limitation that only those associations have been included that are fully or partly relevant to Europe:

–          EuroMed Postal, the association of postal administrations of the Mediterranean countries. Since 2014 there have been interesting joint issues that focus on a variety of themes, in particular on regional history. Apart from the European Mediterranean states, these include North African countries and the Levant.

–          RSS, the association of postal administrations of the republics of the former Soviet Union. Starting with the issues on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of its foundation in 2011, new stamps that feature a common theme have been issued every year. Russia and Belarus as well as states of the Caucasus and Central Asia are participating.

–          SEPAC, the association of the postal administrations of small European countries. There have been joint issues since 2007, while regulations ensure that the collection area remains limited: Each participant may only issue one stamp per year.

–          UPAEP, the postal union of America, Spain and Portugal: Its joint issues, referred to as America stamps, which have been around since 1989, make this the most comprehensive one of all newly included collection areas. These also focus on a common theme every year.

In addition to these thematic gems you will discover other new details in the familiar chapters, too. Postal stationery and here and there even a few vending machine stamps with the motifs of the Europe issues, as well as self-adhesive versions, some of which were only issued several years after the original wet-glue issues, have been supplemented for many countries. And of course you will find novelties: Regarding the Europe stamps and several of the new chapters, the complete sets of the Year 2020 are already included.

We did take out the few pages featuring NATO motif stamps. That chapter had not been continued for over 30 years since it did not really fit in with the “European Union” theme or that of “joint issues”. If you are still interested in NATO issues, however, we recommend our product “Mein MICHEL“, which allows you to assemble your own individual catalogue of any motif – complete with all novelties since 1989. Just visit our website or call us – we will be happy to furnish any information you need!

We wish all collectors out there an enjoyable time with their hobby and the specialists among you lots of discoveries and new insights when working with this catalogue.

Schwaneberger Publishing House
The Editorial Team

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