Bohemia And Moravia : On Steiner Pages.

Some voids.
Second Hand Hawid Mounts, recut.

1939
Steiner Page 1.



1939
Steiner Page 2.

1939
Steiner Page 3.



1941
Steiner Page 4.

Personal Page.
Steiner Style Page 4B



Personal Page
Steiner Style Page 4C

Very interesting pages and stamps. The engraved stamps were printed by a Stickney rotary press that was used on Czechoslovakia stamps.

Thank you jogil,
that makes sense, being in occupied territory at the time.

I come across the Stickney rotary press often, but as yet, never seen an image.

1942
Steiner Page 5.



1943
Steiner Page 6

rod222: See the following current SCF discussion and check out the link relating to the Stickney press that is in one of the postings in it: https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...54503#475195

Unless I am mistaken, Bohemia and Moravia is one of those areas where you can put together a complete collection without busting the bank.

Thanks jogil
I think I have the entire (basic) collection mint (mint and mint lightly hinged ) and used
I paid $50 about 5 years ago or so, if memory serves.

I was just reading your post here...............

http://goscf.com/t/36707#36707

This is very true. Michel's current CV for the entirety of B&M is barely north of €200 for MNH. And that's including the major color variations which are only listed in Michel.

And Rod, I find the inclusion of the one issue you're missing on Page 1 to be a poor design decision on Steiner's part. There are many plate flaws throughout B&M, yet he chose to include a single one -- and one that catalogues at €160 MNH, BTW.

Indeed, I use Steiner pages for my German-area collection and that very space is the only empty one in my B&M album. He does that sort of thing fairly frequently, at least with the German area. For example, the only empty space in my Steiner pages for the post-WWII French occupation zones is Scott# 6N34a, an imperforate variety. CV isn't all that bad, but it hasn't been all that easy to find, either (although I've hardly overturned every stone in the search). There are plenty other examples of him seemingly inserting one or two random minor varieties that are expensive and/or hard to find. Not sure if he does that to intentionally make the pages more challenging to complete or if he did it for his own purposes (e.g. he has that particular stamp in his own collection and wanted to make a space for it).

How about a "marker" that brands his pages as uniquely his (copyright)?

Of course, now that I pull it up in Scott, I see why he does it this way. Scott gives it a number, so he gives it a spot.

Here's one for sale on Delcampe. The price is pretty high as a percentage of CV (#8776;67% of Michel, #8776;92% of Scott), but that's likely because the attached margin commands a premium.

Here's another example: on Steiner's pages for the Nazi occupation of Poland (Generalgouvernement - another easily completable area) he has a space for Scott# NB41b, the 1944 Cracow Castle semi-postal marking the 5th anniversary of the General Governent, which is described as a 10z + 10z carmine and greenish black (major number Scott# NB41 is listed as red and black). CV in Scott for NB41b is $12.50 for MH and $25 for both MNH and used, so not a huge issue there. The problem is that, according to a long time dealer specializing in the German area, such a stamp doesn't exist, despite its being listed by Scott. So that space is unfillable with a genuine stamp, assuming the information I was given was correct. That's the only space left open on my Steiner pages for that area as well. If it were a huge issue I'd just use a PDF editor to remove the space and reprint the page, but it's more of a minor annoyance.

TheArtfulHinger,

That GG issue technically exists, though AFAIK, it's not catalogued separately by anyone except Scott.

See this, an excerpt from the Arge Generalgouvernement's Handbook of the Stamps, Plate Flaws, Sheet Features, Varieties and Printer's Waste, which would seem to indicate that for some reason, the shades are impossible to distinguish between individual stamps. Not sure why the colors would be distinguishable in sheet form but not in individual stamps, unless the color differences are tied to specific sector or plate numbers.

Michel just lumps them all into one. They used to have a notation that shades exist without a separate catalog number, but they don't even include that anymore.

Thanks for the info, Postmaster, that was an interesting read. I've always kind of been curious as to how some of these Nazi-era stamps made it into the hands of contemporary collectors, and this fills in a small piece of that puzzle.