German Postage Stamp Varieties: Getting Deep into the Weeds
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- čas přidán 11. 01. 2024
- Enjoy a deep dive into some advanced topics in German stamp collecting. You all have pointed me to some fascinating details for my German collection. I thought I’d share what I’m learning, including some details on peacetime and wartime printings of Germania stamps, one-plate and two-plant printings, some stamp designs I missed in the Russian Zone stamps and Berlin stamps, the existence of Russian Zone local stamps, and some interesting stamp overprints.
A special shout out to www.germanstamps.net/ for permission to use images from the site.
Also thank you to the Stamps Boards Community. Images of Russian Zone local stamps are reproduced with permission -- from www.stampboards.com/.
I’ve put up a new blog post with the Germania image examples for later reference. Go here for that: kensstampcollection.blogspot....
Thanks a lot for these detailed videos, very very helpful, enjoy them a lot. Greetings from Germany:)
Glad you like them!
I really like your coverage of the Germania stamps. They are a good example of a series that's fun to collect on cover where one might get a more full view of postmarked dates.
I’ve never been much of a cover collector but I think you are 100% right
A great overview of German stamps, Ken. A wonderful video. Thanks for your efforts in putting this together for us.
A pleasure. It's fun to make these videos.
You have out done your self with this video! Thanks so much and whew a lot of information and so many varieties. I have always loved the early issues of Germany. They have a majestic/prominent look.
They are beautiful designs
Ken, your attention to detail is brilliant and important but a bit obsessive to hold my interest.
German stamps from the 1871 unification of the German Empire until the 1948 post war WW2 division of Germany into allied administrative zones are incredibly interesting. Stamps told me street level history of what life must have been like. Whether it is German states or the rise of the German Empire or the privation of the 1923 hyperinflation when a beer might cost 5 billion marks. These stamps make history real... Stamps function as a tool of the administration and is never more apparent in times of war. This is when change is sudden and dramatic. When the Germans occupied Poland and Ukraine, they issued new stamps and discarded the Polish government stamps only to have them show up, unused decades later.
I went to Berlin as a young long hair in 1972 and again in December of 1989 when the
wall was coming down. A year later West Germany and the DDR reunified..
You paint a vivid picture of the draw of stamp collecting. I appreciate you stopping by.
I have a large amount of German stamps to go through .Although I had a nice sized collection already checked and catalogued, I changed to a Scott Specialized and haven't worked them in. I did buy some boxes from an estate sale and received stock books full of early German stamps as well as leuchtturm pages with stamps from 1960-1980's. so will have to double check all of these b4 i decide what is what. i have managed to work in most of the German states to the specialized pages so far.Next all the possessions ,colonies and occupations b4 i tackle the main German volume. Your vids are helping to guide me on what I will do when i get to moving the bulk of the collection.may have to look into a Michel catalogue
Sounds like a huge pile of joy
Very informative video. Learned many things. Thank you.
Glad to hear it!
As if being a worldwide megalomaniac wasn't bad enough, now you have me going deep on all of my definitives thanks to your videos. I will now catch to my collection about 10 years after my demise. Thanks for the great videos Ken!
Haha. Glad to be of service
⭐️ another great video Ken!!! and nice upload timing, I am also currently segregating these 1905-1918 Germanias. shared some of my experience on instagram.
I'm watching you over on The Gram.
@@KensStampCollectionoh thanks!
Question answered...very well! Thanks for the great information, presented professionally, Ken.
As a side note, I believe the last 4 digits on German postmarks of the era, ended with a time stamp such as:
EDIT:THANK YOU @PostmasterGS for the correction!
7-8N This would indicate the letter was postmarked between 7 and 8 PM. The "V" is for Vormittag (A.M.) and "N" for Nachmittag (P.M.)
I didn't know that, thank you! Make sense
It's "V" for Vormittag (A.M.) and "N" for Nachmittag (P.M.)
@@PostmasterGS Thank you so much! I'm still struggling with English, so my German is bound to fail! Best
Another great presentation on collecting Germany. Look forward to future presentations.
Oh, me too. I'm having fun making them.
great video
Thanks for the visit
Once again, your thoughtful process makes me wish I was not such a nut for every stamp I see (pre-1970)
and focus on Germany (where I have a lot of material from) ... always a good idea to get into the weeds for
at least one country :) ... oh look, another stamp ...
Haha, I know the feeling
Great video. Thank you so much for the information over Germania stamps.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful video, once again. Your 'Making Sense of German Stamps' is a reference to me for my German collection. I will add this video to it. I loved the Deep Dive, although I need multiple times to watch it. Not because it is hard to understand, just hard to remember all and take it all in. I loved the way you presented this video, good sound, good images, good close ups and excellent editing. Thanks Ken!, much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful. Thank you.
Holy dinah. What a video, Ken. Thanks for teaching as you learn. ✨ It's one thing to learn all this stuff and quite another to document the entire process on video. Your explanations are clearer than most presentations I've seen, inside and outside the hobby. It's so appreciated! The wartime / peacetime deep dive has me thinking about other definitive sets where the print quality changes over time too. Makes me want to dig into the story behind the differences. PS - loved the magic mounting shots. Your tongs looked like a wizard's wand. Philatelus Mountus! 😂
I'm thinking bibity-bobity-boo.
Great show. If you want to take a deep dive into Germania stamps, this book is highly recommendable: Michael Jaeschke Lantelme - 100 Jahre Germania. Die Briefmarkenausgaben des deutschen Kaiserreichs (Michel Nr. 53-97). Written in German language, but not difficult to understand for advanced collectors. Greets from GER, U.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Very interesting video - love the topic and area! I have a bunch of postally used DDR so would like to sort through my 5-year plan stamps to see what varieties I have. I was planning on doing the same with the Germanias also using dates as you have suggested. I'm not sure if I'll go down the color varieties rabbit hole since stamps fade, etc. unless there are really obvious color differences. Did not know about the last varieties with 2-plate vs. 1-plate versions of same color issues; look forward to looking for these as well!
Have fun with the sorting
I have a small collection of Germania stamps and the only way I am able to distinguish them is by cancellation. If the date is before 1914, it must be "peace-time" printing. Because, you know, time travel does not exist ;)
I see you've noticed this as well at 14:39.
So far, I can only time travel forward ... and in real time.
Another absolutely excellent video! Your structuring and editing of your videos are improving in great strides, Ken. This is really a great video. I do not collect German stamps (yet? 😆), but nevertheless I am learning SO MUCH from your processes! I already watched this video twice to sponge up everything. I wondered: (1) I found the information you gave about CTOs very interesting. I actually didn't know that postally sold and used stamps also might have a CTO version and vice versa. I thought CTOs are only purely non-postal earmarked stamps which were created for solely collecting, and of which uncancelled versions would not have been postally usable in the countries for which they were supposedly issued. I clearly did not know the entire CTO story. Are some stamps entirely only available in CTO format? (2) I saw some of the Germania stamps you sorted into peace and war issues had perfins, if I am not mistaken. Do you just ignore perfins?
Thanks!
So, I'm still learning on these. PostmasterGS has pointed me to here: web.archive.org/web/20121227002040/www.jaypex.com/Germany/DDR5YearPlan.htm
Apparently, these CTO copies are also called reprints. The reprints are always CTO and the unused are always not-CTO. Also, there are apprently no CTOs for the Quatrefoil watermark stamps.
With that in mind, I think I've got some errors on my Quatrefoil page. I'll have to check those. I also think my booklet might be of the Quatrefoil stamps not the postern stamps. I'll check that too.
So, I love your question: Were there CTOs that were never available postally? The answer is certainly yes, but I'm not sure which ones. Most the DDR stamps were both CTOs for collectors and postally available. There are some countries that issued lots of stamps that were never used for postage. Look at all those Disney stamps for example. There are also stamps that look like they'd be postage, but wouldn't be recognized in the country by a post office. And of course, there are some stamps that are created for countries that don't even have a postal system, because of war or other turmoil.
Perfins -- Yeah, I tend to ignore perfins. I'll keep them if I don't have a "better" copy. They do draw my attention, but I'm resisting so far.
@@KensStampCollection Also, please be aware that research has continued since that website was last updated. Specifically, the list of known CTO cancels listed in Michel now has some that Jay wasn't aware of.
... resisting so far ... 😆I find them quite interesting, and they catch my eye.@@KensStampCollection
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Hi there!
Great video.be very interested if do a video on watermark s ie fluid v scopes I collect Qe2 pre decimals never know how to detectbinverted v sideways watermarks Frank Uk
Thanks Frank. I've never used a scope. It's a great topic idea. I do love those QE2 pre-decimals.