Germany Strips Of 5 With Control Number On Back ?

Came across 1231-1242, 1308,1309, 1311, 9N439, 9N440 qnd 9N441 strips of 5 with control number on one of the 5 stamps. I do not see them listed that way in scott and am trying to purchase an english Michel catalog.

Would these be in Vol 1 or 2?

Are these still collectable?

Thank you for your time and assistance
Respectfully,
Richard

I can't help you with English Michel, but in the German editions you would look near the end of the set's listing for Rollenmarken mit rückseitiger Nummer which is loosely translated as coil stamp with number on the reverse.

They are outside of my era of interest, but they are collected.

Hi Richard. Yes, just about anything you can come up with is collectible! Remember the saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure"!
I am not very familiar with German stamps, but in some of it's neighbors like the Netherlands and Switzerland these would be stamps out of an automatic machine. They are called Rollen Marken or Automaten Marken.
Here in the US we would call them coil stamps.

Peter

thank you cjd and peter!

If I understand correctly, these control numbers apparently appear on either every fifth or tenth stamp (?) Possibly, this varies from country to country because I have seem different countries across Europe with these control numbers.

If so, should the catalogue value be higher proportionately??

Chimo

Bujutsu

I can see why you might expect that to be true, but it turns out that the respective CVs are not proportional, at all. (In this era, German coil stamps had a control number on every fifth stamp, and this held true across all of the denominations.)

In the lower denominations, with a lower CV, the Nummer stamps have a 3x to 4x premium; the higher denominations, with a higher CV, only reflect something like a 1.3x to 2x premium.

For what it is worth, the preferred format for German coil strips is a strip of 5 with the control number on the middle stamp.

I should point out that the sample comparison, above, was for the 1977 castles set, Mi913-920. It may not hold true across the others.

Looking at the listings again, the used examples with Nummer have only a small premium over used examples without Nummer.

Make of that what you will...