Help With Value Of Rolls Of Hitler Stamps

"So what is questionable " Did the post office issue the stamps ? or did a private firm make them COILS ! , why has Scott and Stanley Gibbons not given them a listing

My guess is they are not listed as coils is because the Post Office just sold them as regular stamps in long sheets and the firm made them {cutting into strips } and sold them as Coils

They were printed and issued by the Reichspost. In the early days of the Reichspost making rolls, they printed then in smaller lengths and glued them together. But, for all issues from about the Gemanias forward, they were printed in long rolls of 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, or 2000 stamps. The complete rolls are often found with the Reichspost printers' label (Banderolen) still attached.

If I had to guess, they're not listed in Scott/SG because the individual coil stamps are indistinguishable from the sheet/booklet stamps, and Scott/SG simple don't get into that level of specialization. Scott/SG coverage of Germany just isn't very good.

I guess I am still not understanding the point. Obviously, the post office printed the stamps. I mean, whatever a private firm did with them (and we don't know a private firm was involved) isn't really relevant, is it?


This is a normal sheet:



Since there are rolls that have more than ten attached stamps, we know they were issued. Whether or not sheets were shipped intact, or rolls were shipped these are a different animal from a regular sheet. Right? Just because Scott doesn't list something doesn't mean it isn't real. I can point out a thousand Russian items listed in specialized Catalogs of Russia that are widely used in auctions and by collectors, but Scott does not list them.

PS: Getting hung up on the semantics of whether these are called rolls or coils probably confuses the issue. The main point is that they are different than the commonly encountered sheets of the same stamps.

Sorry but I think I'm the same if not more confused than when I posted this... Lol I cannot tell you how many stamps are on each roll but I can say that it is way more than 11. I'd guess at least 100 or more.

@cashcraft,

They are not issued as rolls of 11 stamps, they are collected in strips of 11 stamps. Shorter strips could come from ordinary counter sheets. Since the rolls were made up from those sheets, it is not possible or difficult to discern between stamps issued from sheets and those issued from rolls.

To make sure the strips were taken from rolls, people collect strips of 11, as such strips cannot come from counter sheets and they are the minimum number of stamps in a strip required to proof they are from rolls. So, Michel catalogues these strips of 11. Complete rolls are not popular, because it is very difficult to mount them in an album. So, Michel does not list complete rolls.

Michel is a German publisher and will follow what is popular in Germany. Other catalogue editors may not list strips and even refrain from listing stamps from rolls that cannot (easily) be identified as such. StampmasterGS has shown you both a Michel listing and a page of those strips of eleven stamps (Elferstreifen).

Your rolls appear to be part-rolls. Some, even, may be split.

And, please, ignore the suggestion they may be private issues. It, simply, is not true. Again, PostmasterGS has given the correct information.