Need Help With Early 20th Century German Stamps

Hello everyone,
Brand new member here. I've recently discovered a passion for stamps (and coins). And in my conversations with friends, I learned a friend inherited her mother-in-law's stamp collection. The collection covers a few different countries, but for now I am seeking your guidance on these three pages of German stamps. I assume they're early 20th Century. My friend would like my assistance dealing with the collection. We're both babes in the woods. I've begun researching German philately, and we'll probably go to a dealer at some point (if I don't buy the collection myself), but help from your accumulated years of knowledge would be most helpful at this time. Below are just a few of the stamps. I apologize if my photos are poor; I wasn't in a position to scan them. Thank you so much!

Oh, and basically I'm looking to see if there's anything unique or valuable in here. Or is this pretty run of the mill stuff. Thank you again.

Hi, welcome to the forum, unfortunatly your stamps are very common and have less value than the book that hold them

Thank you, area66. I figured that would be the case. When Inget a chance, I'll post more pictures. At the very least, I love looking at them. :-)

What you have seem to be the duplicate stamps of a collection, are you sure they are no album somewhere ?

These are from the 1920-23 inflationary period, one of the more interesting periods in history. Inflation got so out of hand that workers had to be paid twice daily so they could hurry up and spend it before it lost even more of its value. It got to the point where the paper currency was quite literally worth less than the paper it was printed on. These stamps were printed in values of up to 50 billion Marks before they revalued the currency and the spiral stopped. Postal rates changed so quickly that stamps would be obsolete by the time they were delivered and millions of mint stamps were left over and ended up in collectors' hands as a result. Due to the short periods when they were useful for postage, they are usually scarcer in used condition than mint, and usually more valuable as a result (sometimes a lot more). Some of them can be worth tens, hundreds and even thousands of dollars in used condition, but that's only if it's accompanied by an expert certificate attesting to the authenticity of the cancel.

For more historical background see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper...mar_Republic

Area66, I think you might be right. My friend said there was another Germany album. Next time I'm there I'll inquire about it.

TheArtfulHinger, thanks for the info! Aside from loving how they look, I love the history behind stamps.

the real collection is probaly and this other album and the colletor was using the stockbook you have for the duplucates, that's my feeling.

Hopefully!

Besides watermarks or varieties you could take a quick look at the "Freistaat Bayern" overprints on the third picture.
The perforation holes of the 2 Mark and 3 Mark could be either 25:17 (common) or 26:17 (rare).
With 26 holes the Michel catalog values are 420,- (2 Mark) and 400,- (3 Mark).

And the three "Deutschösterreich" ones are Austrian stamps (1919/21), not German. ;-)

Thanks, tommtomm.