I don't have a lot of time because I have to go help my dad stretch fence today so my qiestion may not be real clear. In a box of stuff my uncle gave me I found a thick Blue Album called the International Postage Stamp Album. It has maps in the front of countries that don't exist anymore. It has a lot of stamps in it and inside the front cover is three pages with pockets that are full of stamps that my Scott catalog calls Germania. I am having trouble telling some of them them apart. The catalog says they were printed in 1900 and 1901 and 1905-1919 and 1916-1919. I know some have watermarks but I don't know if they all do or not. Some of them were printed over and over again but I don't know how to tell which is which. Can anyone here help me please?
The easy way to tell them apart is this: the 1900-1 issues have "Reichspost" written below, where the others have "Deutsches Reich". When you have taken these out, you can now select the ones with the white background, those are the 1916-1919 ones. Now you are left with the 1905-1919 selection, which has a background of fine lines. You could check these for watermarks, it is the only type that has stamps with and without them.
Jan-Simon, thank you. Once I knew what to look for it was easy. I guess I was too busy looking at he stamps to see what I was seeing. I hope you undestand.
same era... different question
I have a pair of stamps that I just need a bit more information on
They are 1916-19,
Scott design A22
Cat # 97,98
Perf 14
Wtmk 125
As you can see they are attached.
However in the Standard Catalogue (2016) this is no listing for those two stamps to be attached. There are listings for 98 and 99, 98 and 100, 98 and 82(5pf)
I do not have the specialized catalogue
Has anyone seen a listing for this pairing of stamps... I presume they came from a booklet.
I would just like to have the rest of the information
Thank you for your time
Rene
I do see this listed as a pair in a stamp data base called Stamp Manage (there is a free 30-day trial online), and they are from a booklet. No other information though.
The snapshot below is taken from a 1994/1995 Michel specialized catalogue. I am not sure which one you have, because I cannot read German, but look at the "Germania (aus Automatenrollen)" listing at the bottom of this picture. It might be in here, that is my best guess.
The 7 1/2 and 2 1/2 Germania from 1916 (Michel 98, 99) in attached vertical pairs came from a vending machine and are coil stamps.
Keeping the Germania issues apart is not to difficult.
first issue 1900 - REICHPOST at the bottom
second issue 1905 / 1913 - Watermark, DEUTSCHES REICH at the bottom,
unclear print.
third issue 1915 - same as above but the print is not as clear.
I use the cross on top of the crown to keep these apart.
fourth issue & other issues can easily be kept apart by denomination and color.
The truth is within and only you can reveal it 27 Jul 2018 12:41:00am
re: How to identify Germania stamps
By following this link: http://mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/germany/germany.html you can see all of the Germania stamps issued b Germany proper (except the two that I do not have) There are also many of the Germania issues that were overprinted for use in German offices abroad. Note that below the thumbnails for pages in the link that there are high res scans of each type to see the differences in detail for the different issues.
"if they are coil stamps, would the y not only be perferated horizontally?"
Coil stamps were printed on cylinders or rotary print. The difference to normal sheets is there are no top or bottom selvage. There are only two ways to determine a coil from a regular stamp, a vertical strip of 11 or more stamps or by the count number on the right or left selvage. The coil will always have their numbers from right to left and on both sides. In German these are called Rollenbahnbögen, (Rb) in the Michel. Kind of means sheets that came from a roll of paper.