German Stamps What Are These ??(1074)( Booklets Explained )

I know these come from the 1074 family of stamps. Are they just from sheets? Also the bottom pick would that be from booklet 1075c. I ask because both ends are perfed.






Thanks again for any info.

Decided to change the title on this one also for ease of searching.

They are booklet panes and/or from sheets used to print booklet panes. Germany (as well as many other European countries) sold booklets with multiple denominations, good for things like first class letters, postcards, etc. If they didn't need postcard stamps, they could usually combine some of the smaller denominations to make the first class rate, for example. The booklets were very practical like that.

Booklets are printed differently than sheet stamps, printed in full-sized sheets, usually with some stamps that are printed upside-down in relation to each other. This is because the sheets are separated and assembled into booklets by machine, and the arrangement of the stamps on the sheet is necessary for the way the machine assembles the booklets. Anyway, Germany has long sold those "booklet-sheets" to collectors as full sheets, meaning collectors can obtain pairs and blocks of stamps that are upside down in relationship to each other, also known as tete-beche. These pairs of German stamps are referred to as zusammandrucke in German, and they are widely collected. There is always a premium for them, but most modern issues aren't particularly valuable. Some of the early ones (from the 1920's and even earlier) can be quite valuable.

Northener0,

As TheArtfulHinger said, the ones in your first photo are from a booklet sheet (Markenheftchenbogen, or MHB) that has not been cut into its component booklet panes (Heftchenblattern, or H-Bl.).

Those are from Michel MHB18. Here's a photo of the full sheet I stole from ebay.



This sheet would have been cut into booklet panes H-Bl. 23, which would then have been included in booklet (Markenheftchen, or MH) MH18.

The second photo is a booklet pane from the same series, but a different booklet than those in the first photo. Note the different order of the values. It's booklet pane H-Bl. 25 from booklet MH20.

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