Content of Michel Catalog Mitteleuropa 2021 (E2):

Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, West Hungary..

Description:

• After its premiere last year, Part Two of the Europe series has now been compre-hensively revised and updated.
• Numerous editorial additions: postage tariffs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, dividing the notes of validity on Czech issues of the 1930s into the German Protec-torates Bohemia and Moravia as well as Slovakia, and new lists of the Hungarian and Czech postal systems’ customizable reissues complete the wealth of philatelic information.
• The MICHEL Editorial Team has checked the price quotations throughout the whole edition and adjusted them to the current market prices where applicable.
• Many interesting motifs and sheetlet issues have been appraised higher – in the case of a Czech sheetlet, the value of specimens in mint condition has more than doubled in the past year.
• New photos of Hungarian issues make it easier to find even classic stamps.
• Over 9100 colour pictures and approx. 40,600 price quotations
• Features novelties presented in MICHEL Rundschau up to and including 2/2021

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.

Many Czech and Slovak issues are not only very attractive but also depict art and current events in a special way. In 2018 Slovakia issued a block that shows the most famous photographs of the Prague Spring: While documenting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968, the photo journalist Ladislav Bielik captures the very moment one single Slovakian confronts a tank with his bare chest.
The Slovakian block intaglio print received the award “Best Hand-engraved Stamp of the Year of 2018”.

Illustration: Slovakia Block 53

70 additional colour photos illustrate the early Hungarian postal history in this new MICHEL edition.

On MiNo. 73 the Turul bird, a hybrid between an eagle and a falcon that makes many an appearance in Hungarian myths, is flying over the Holy Crown of Hungary. Numerous stamps that depicted that motif were issued at the beginning of the 20^th Century; now they can be spotted a lot easier in the MICHEL Central Europe.

Target Group:

Stamp collectors specialized in issues of European Alpine countries, experts, dealers, thematic collectors, study groups, teachers

Additional Information:

106th Edition, in colour
800 pages
155 mm x 230 mm, hardcover
On sale: 5 March 2021
Language: German
ISBN: 9-783-95402-352-3

Press Release

Last year presented the human race with enormous challenges. Philatelists, who have been able to pursue their hobby in the safe environment of their homes, can consider themselves to be lucky. The selected stamps on the cover document the perspective of various postal administrations on the Corona pandemic.

Volume 2 of the sixteen volumes the Europe series consists of is the 2021 MICHEL Mitteleuropa . It contains the popular collection areas of Slovakia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

This new edition is even more comprehensive and precise than its predecessor. Numerous new MICHEL numbers were included, and many editorial changes and improvements have also been made. The information about common postage tariffs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been complemented, respectively added. Notes of validity on Czech issues of the 1930s have been split regarding the German Protectorates Bohemia and Moravia as well as Slovakia. Listings of the quantities of the Hungarian and Czech postal systems’ own customizable reissues have been included.

One focal point of the editing process was the revision and updating of price quotations. Price increases were noted particularly among many interesting motifs and sheetlet issues. The value of specimens of one Czech sheetlet in mint condition has risen from € 90 to € 250. This edition boasts new photos of 70 issues alone from classic Hungarian stamps. We will soon have accomplished our goal to depict all stamps of one issue with different motifs.

This volume contains all novelties introduced in MICHEL Rundschau up to and including No. 2/2021. A subscription of the magazine, starting with No. 3/2021, is recommended so as to keep updated and not miss any novelties. In addition to the cataloguing of novelties, MICHEL Rundschau provides information about anything of importance in the world of philately.

The Editorial Team wants to say Thank You to all the collectors, examiners and dealers whose suggestions, photos and price lists contributed to the successful making of this edition.

We hope our readers will greatly enjoy spending time with the new 2021 MICHEL Central Europe and their own collections.

Schwaneberger Publishing House
The Editorial Team

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