German Stamps, Mint & Used, Unsorted From Album.

Hello there! jimjamtwo wished to see some German stamps, especially Weimar ones, however I have no idea which year these stamps are from. I guess they are quite mixed. Anyway, here are some pictures. Feel free to ask for a better picture of some individual stamps, some might not be seen completely. I have 11 pages of German stamps in this single album.

I'll see how to keep quality with low filesize.

http://rapidshare.com/files/438936469/Tyska.rar

Rapidshare for .rar with 11 pictures of my pages. I will re-size the pictures in the meanwhile. Takes time without photoshop.












There we go.. Lets test with all the pictures embedded..

Tomten, I had a quick look and I must say it looks like a really solid Weimar/Third Reich collection. The stamps seem generally to be in very good condition and there is a very good mix of used and unused and common and not-so-common issues. I'd bid for it myself, if you put it up on ebay.

You think? These are just the German stamps from one of my albums. I have quite a few more, but I think this one had the most German ones. I have to agree that the quality is very nice overall. Yes, everything is quite mixed..

I don't think I sell complete albums or sets. Unless I know I have duplicates. I haven't even started sorting the stamps that are in boxes. I think it will be some months before I try to sell stamps I'm afraid. (unless you have a very very very very good price ;))

Before I start selling, I want to know the value of each stamp..

Tomten, just be aware that the catalogue value (CV) of a stamp is very rarely what it sells for in the real world.

You can only get a price anywhere near the catalogue value if the stamp is in superb condition - no damaged perfs, for example - and there's a lot of demand for it.

In the real world, most stamps sell for only a fraction of the CV.

Not exactly what I expected to see in the U.S. CLASSICS forum, but a nice collection.


KirkS

Thanks for that information. I think "most" of my stamps are in quite bad shape, but nothing I can do about it really. :)

KirkS, I meant to post some more US stamps along with these, but there weren't any US in this particulary album.. So I just sticked with these 11 photos ;)

This is actually a collection of my father, I think there would be more uncommon ones in my grandpas albums.

Definitely keep them coming ....

Kirk

I have another question, not regarding stamps though. I've got an old book, which I think used to be on ships. It contains maps over various cities in Europe in the 1700s. Do you think anyone here would know anything about such things, or if someone is aware of any Forum regarding old documents?

When I get home next week I will post some WWII Germany and other countries for you jimjamtwo. I have quite the collection.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Very nice stamps!
Seeing those really makes me want to start collecting WW.

I'm totally uneducated about German stamps. What are 'Weimer ones'?
Also, is there a way that the Third Reich stamps are identified easily, or does one need to look them up in a catalog?

Weimar is the period in Germany after WWI and up to the advent
of the Third Reich in 1933.
It was named after a city in Germany because the first
constitutional assembly for the new Republic was held there.

Very nice group of stamps.

If you mean can they be identified by what it says on the stamp
then no.
German stamps during the Empire after 1902 and up to 1918,
also for the Weimar period and during the Third Reich (Nazi) period all had Deutsches Reich on the stamp
except during the last couple of war years when it stated GrossDeutsches Reich (Greater Germany)

Here are a couple of files that are an extreme help for those who collect WWII era Germany
and Third Reich Occupied Countries. It has the 3 different catalogue listings for each stamp.


http://www.mediafire.com/?h79ekh45ffsqbn5 - WWII Occupied Countries (Third Reich Era)
http://www.mediafire.com/?clc0addfuo6q2zr - WWII Third Reich

Very small PDF files and they are in color.

Nice links, thanks for posting.

I do have a some thousand German stamps probably.. waiting in their boxes and unsorted in albums.. Sorting them will be the project of 2011..hehe

Don't "most" of the Third Reich-stamps got the Nazi-mark / Hitler?

Do you think an old German, collecting album, could be worth anything? The old album I mean.

Merry Christmas. (and happy birthday to my father :) )