Content of MICHEL Catalog Kuriose Briefmarken / Unusual Stamps - Ganze welt 2nd edition

Stamps from all over the world from 1852 up to and including 2022 that are exceptional because of their shape, colour, material, printing, gumming or anything else.

• 2nd edition, in colour of a very special collection area makes even newcomers interested in stamps.
• Stamps from all over the world from 1852 up to and including 2022 that are exceptional because of their shape, colour, material, printing, gumming or anything else.
• 480 pages, Over 5000 colour photos and approx. 39.000 price appraisals
• Novelties until MICHEL-Rundschau 11/2022

DesCRIPTION

•  Two years after the successful first edition, the motif volume "Unusual Stamps" is published as a completely revised new edition.
• The new catalogue format, together with an improved layout, makes it possible to catalogue and illustrate more stamps without increasing the number of pages.
• Both the design descriptions and all price quotations have been reviewed and updated.
• Price changes since the last issue in 2020 reflect movements in the market.
• Addition of further stamp issues that either appeared after the first edition or were additionally reported to the editors.
• Over 5000 colour photos and approx. 39.000 price appraisals
• Novelties until MICHEL-Rundschau 11/2022

Curiosity is in the eye of the beholder and in philately, as in every other area of life, it is shaped not least by the spirit of the times. Self-adhesive stamps, for example, would only be classified as curiosities by very few people today. This new MICHEL volume therefore endeavours as far as possible to place curiosities in their respective contemporary context and consequently only covers self-adhesive stamps up to the year of issue 1991. Other techniques and forms, on the other hand, remained philatelic exceptions and will certainly be remembered most clearly after reading the MICHEL catalogue "Curious Stamps". MiNo. 561 from Bhutan also clearly reflects its time, as the "talking stamp" in the form of a record dates from 1973 and thus exemplifies the zenith of modern shellac records. Whether you really want to listen to the folk song recorded on the stamp shown here or "just" collect the stamp: stories about such "curious" pieces are always music to the ears of real philatelists and can be found in abundance in the new MICHEL volume! Photo: Bhutan MiNo. 561

Target Group

Stamp collectors specialized in stamps of unusual stamps, extraordinary stamps of the whole world, experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Additional Information

Title: Michel Catalog Kuriose Briefmarken / Unusual Stamps / Curious Stamps / Extraordinary Stamps
2nd edition, in colour
480 pages
Format: 150 mm x 225 mm, Paperback
Publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH
Publication date: 2 December 2022
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-95402-409-4

Press Release:

After only two years we can present the second edition of the Michel Catalog Kuriose Briefmarken. So it has obviously sparked the interest of many collectors. However, there is still no exact definition of what makes a stamp "curious". Certainly, a deviation from the norm is a prerequisite for it, but there is no "norm" for stamps either.

When the first stamps were produced in 1840, the standard was "rectangular, made of paper and produced by a common printing process". Since then, there have been many experiments with manufacturing processes, materials and features. Some have stood the test of time, such as the perforation, which is standard today. The most recent successful innovation was self-adhesive gumming, of which the early experiments are included in this volume until 1991.

We have also introduced time limits for other innovations, because what was originally a special feature may well have become standard later. For this reason, we have inserted a limit in 2010 for laser printing in this issue.

A medical mask for mice is certainly a curiosity, but it also shows how much the Covid-19 pandemic also affected stamps. The pandemic is also responsible for a number of other curiosities. Then there are stamps that can be folded into three-dimensional objects or that are even delivered as three-dimensional objects. In this form, however, they are no longer really suitable for use as stamps.

In this second edition of theMichel Catalog Kuriose Briefmarken, the stamps covered up to and including MICHEL-Rundschau 11/2022 have been taken into account. Further stamps, which will certainly exist, can be found in the following issues of the MICHEL-Rundschau and in the MICHEL-Online.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all readers and contributors who have brought curiosities to our attention.

Collecting curious stamps is a particularly individual kind of stamp collecting. For what may seem unusual to one person is quite normal to another. This volume can therefore only attempt to be a guide through the world of unusual stamps. We now wish you much pleasure in your chamber of curiosities.

Schwaneberger Publishing House
The Editorial Team

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