Newly Bought Literature And Literature You Find Most Usefull

My most usefull literature is Catalogs relatede to my collecting areas, I always try to find specialized literature, I also read other stamp related literature and magasines.

Today I bought some literature from DANZIG with information about the stamps with overprint DANZIG. It is most usefull when you collect Danzig.



This is just an example of a false overprint, the literature describe the oblique overprint.

Today I received the "Ugly Duckling" H.C Andersen and Danish stamps By Niels H Bundgaard the book is published in 2005

It Is the story of the 1935 issue H.C Andersen and stamp issuede until his 200 years day of his birth.

Most of the world know H.C Andersen's and have issued stamp celebrating his fariy tales.

1. Non exhaustive collection of Billigs Catalogues (38) Circa $700
one can get lost in these. So much Information.

2. Old used Covers mutilated, of Stanley Gibbons Monthly magazines
50c each, like a printed stamp forum, stamps and queries and answers to worldwide stamps, all glossy. Great Journalists

3. Boxes of "Australian Stamp Monthly" from 1938
as above (Gibbons) but black and white poor paper.

4. Donations of Literature from scf member "CALSTAMP"
Some most bizarre monographs, from the most oblique collecting disciplines

Beats me where he finds these gems.

Useful may be in eye of the beholder, but I've been on a binge buying a complete set of H. Lindquist's The Stamp Specialist from 1939-48, plus a goodly number of The Mercury Stamp Journal from 1948-61. Also the Schloss V.2 of Distinguishing European Classics, already had his V.1 just on the German States. Now if I could convince the APS to reprint the Serrane Guide, the available online version is only in French of which I am clueless, though going to Paris in June.

@Rod
Thank you for your input and litterature you find usefull and interesting.

@Svensson
Thank you for your input, looks like you also is a fan of Antiquarisk litterature and I could get a feeling that you might collect Sweden.

My latest book is from 1920 just thought it would be nice to have. I like to read these old books.



and this is the Introduction

Conundrum
The most un-useful Monograph (Library donation from CALSTAMP)

One of the most beautiful, explicit and descriptive plating monographs,
Yet, I cannot afford a single Brunei stamp of this issue.
$100 > for a singleton.

Viking 123, Yes to Sweden, and all the Scandinavian countries, and a few select others up to roughly 1940. We will be in Sweden for about 3 weeks this summer, so I will try to find a stamp shop or two.

@Rod22

Like your aproach to the Brunei stamp, also have litterature about the Danish 2 Rbs Blue well aware that I am not going to collect them.

@Svensson

I also collect stamp up til 1940-1950 depending on country, I sold my Sweden collection a long time ago, schould have keept it. I go on vacation every year in Sweden I like the country and the nature, never come across stamp shops or maybe it is because they are not in the part of sweden where I am.

I have a collection of Norway, Faroe Island, Denmark, Greenland( never understod why we need that many stamps, maybe to exploide collectors), that is why I try to stop in 1940-1950

I just sold everything but my Sweden. Love the stamps

Not as useful as catalogs, Micarelli, etc., but something I bought a couple months ago and have been dipping into often, and with great enjoyment, is The United States Fourth Bureau Issue 1922-1938 by Gary Griffith, Jay Stotts, et al (United States Stamp Society, 2022) .

A pretty impressive production, amply and finely illustrted, it goes into specific stamp designs and the permutations of issues, with lots of nitty-gritty detail on presses, gum breakers, rejection marking, coil waste, booklets, etc., etc. It seems to all be there.

I wish all our new friends who've found a 613 would read pp 126-127.

This arrived yesterday, excited to dive in tonight after dinner:



And finally started reading this... probably should have sooner!

@jlleb1979

I also like books explaining print, watermarks etc. I just bought an older book The history behind the stamp. explaining the post deliverance through time. I also have other books I like to read and some are more favorable than others.

I undestand why you tressure your books, it is always good to obtain new knowledge and by doing so you will always be one step ahead of another philatelist.

@Kobland

Looks like some verry useful books you received and it is always important to know something about ones collecting area and also to know how to take care of it, very nice book cover and beautiful print on the Fundamentals of Philately

@Jrockne

Sure is very nice stamps Sweden.

Roy Hamilton-Bowen's Hibernian Irish catalog is an absolute MUST for this Ireland collector.

@Philatelia7

Thank you for information, I just gave a lot of Irish stamps to a collector in the Stamp club I am a member, I will give him a hint regarding you suggested Catalog.

David Feldman's Handbook of Irish Philately is also great, if you have an interest in some of the more "specialized" details.

Lucky day at a local used bookstore today! Unusual to find much if anything on philately at used bookstores in my experience, so this certainly exceeded expectations.

Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (1954 edition)
The Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada (Moffatt & Hansen, 1981)
The Pence Issues of Newfoundland (Pratt, signed, 1982)