Some videos I posted this year

 Here are some of the videos I posted this past year....

They are in order from Oldest to newest, you can also check my Philately playlist for the older videos as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMdv3hONuf0ck0yFsMuD2xzkclcp3BQa

Slovenia S.H.S and Croatian S.H.S stamps on pieces

Germany 1948 Bizone stamps on cover

Covers with 1850/60s Bavarian stamps

Bosnia and Hercegovina 1906 perforated, imperforated and obliterated sets

See also here for images.... http://www.stampio.org/2019/01/the-revenge-of-yugoslavia-on-bosnian.html

Bosnia and Herzegovina stamps that arrived today, also showing what I already had in my collection

A look at Bosnia 1913 Newspaper stamps...Girl in Bosnian Costume (Mädchen in bosnischer Tracht)

Red Cross/Red Crescent First Day Covers

Swiss airmail covers including Aaurau and Helicopter mail

Austria 1863-1880 mercury newspaper stamps and newspaper tax stamps

Epirus Chimarra Issue 1914 Possibly forgeries

Germany 1875 until about 1990s stamp accumulation

Bayern/Bavaria special catalog and Bavarian Wagon Wheel (Mühlradstempel) cancels on stamps

First day covers from the Netherlands

Books: European Stamp Issues and the 1st/2nd World War, Chainbreakers: Stamps of Slovenia 1919/21

Stamps on envelopes that I received in the mail

Belgian collection on Vario pages part 1

Belgian collection on Vario pages part 2

First look at the new Netherlands 2024 NVPH stamp special catalog

Netherlands Doorlopers.. stamps where the design continues on the next stamp

Quick video about the Sakura stamp catalog (原色日本切手図鑑) I purchased a few weeks ago One thing I noticed, they have different sections for stamps... even more so than Scott :-(

Added to my collection in April 2023

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in April 2023

April 2nd

Germany Bizone 1948 buildings on cover

I always liked this series.. when I saw this cover with 12 of the buildings stamps I had to have it  :-)

You can also see the video I made here

April 10th

West Germany 1953 MiNr 173/176

Beautiful engraving on these stamps

Germany 1946 MiNr Block 12B

The perforated stamps you can find everywhere.. this block is a bit rarer

April 20th

Bosnia 1906 series  imperforated 

I have the regular series, the 'revenge' series as well as the SHS overprints. There are also many different perforations including interesting compound perforations.

I made a video as well where I show some of these

Switzerland 1917 Pro Juventute 

Michel catalog MiNr 133/135.  Scott catalog B7/B9

April 27

Germany 1872 30 Groschen

For once the catalog number are the same number 13 in both Scott and Michel

Nice mint hinged stamp

Switzerland 1916 Pro Juventute 

Michel catalog MiNr 130/132.  Scott catalog B4/B6

Switzerland 1951 LUNABA sheet

Michel block number 14, Scott B206

Added to my collection in March 2023

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in March  2023

March 5

German States Hamburg 1859

Number 2 in both Scott and Michel catalogs

March 12

1956 Northern Countries common issues

Scott lists these as Northern  instead of Nordic. Always nice to see them all together

1969 Northern Countries common issues

Always nice to see them all together

March 21st

Germany 1949 Bizone MiNr Block 1a

Scott number 664a

I always loved this bloc

Austria 1948 Kunstlerhaus semi-postals

Scott B245/B251, Michel 878/884

Kunstlerhaus, home of the leading Austrian Artist Association. 80th Anniversary

Switzerland 1960 Pro Patria Block 17

Scott B297, Michel block 17

Slovenia 1993 Europa CEPT contemporary art

Adding this to my CEPT collection

Modern-ish German mint stamps

Added to my collection November 2022

 This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in November 2022

November 7th

Cover from Belgium....

Got a bunch of stamps in this envelope (see for stamps further below)

Germany booklet pane Michel H-BI 29A

I love the Germania series that were issued before WW I.

Liechtenstein Europa CEPT 1960 MiNr 398

Just an addition to my Europa CEPT collection. Wondering why they didn't do a common design stamp here?

Switzerland 1955 Stamp Exhibition Lausanne Souvenir Sheet 

Michel Block 15, Scott 352a. This sheet does not exist perforated.

Netherlands bunch of MNH stamps from the 70s - 90s

I have most of these.. but was missing about 10 or so in my collection, the rest I will sell or trade. Some of these might end up in some of my thematic collections as well (looking at the stamp on stamp ones)

November 8th

Netherlands 1913 King William II

NVPH catalog number 99. Just missing the 10 Guilder one now from this set

Europa CEPT blocks and mini sheets

Just a few Europa CEPT issues to be added to my collection. Stamps from Yugoslavia, Finland, Turkey and Turkish Cyprus

Netherlands International Cour de Justice set

Issued in 1989-1994, NVPH catalog number 44/58

November 17th

Got 3 stamp lots in the mail today

That is a good amount of stamps on both of those envelopes...

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers horizontally and vertically double perforations

I always loved these chain breakers stamps.....

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers perforation error

Danzig Cork cancellations

Got a bunch of these, this is the first time I have seen this cancellation on Danzig stamps. If you searchon Ebay for korkstempel, you will find more examples...

Netherlands 1941 vliegende duif (flying dove) combinations

NVPH catalog numbers 379a/379d

Switzerland 1939 National exposition all 3 languages

Tree and crossbow, nice clean design, visually very pleasing

Michel catalog number 344/355. Scott catalog number 256/267

November 30th

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers partially imperforated stamps

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers  double horizontal perforation

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers  double vertical perforation

Slovenia SHS 1920 King Peter I Imperforated

Added to my collection October 2022

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in October 2022

October 2nd

Got a bunch of stamps in this envelope (see for stamps further below)

 

Notice the "Please Do Not Bend" part? Well the person working for USPS did not notice it and tried to make it fit.... Luckily no stamps were damaged. Also I was wondering how they can still use non Euro denominated stamps to mail these out?

Switzerland 1852 Michel no 12

Michel number 12, Scott number 12 as well

Not the best margins unfortunately…  Hopefully in the future I will get a cleaner specimen

Austria MNH stamps and some used sheets

Just filling in gaps in my collection  :-)

Switzerland 1999 125 year UPU anniversary

This is a pretty cool design

Monaco 1983 Europa CEPT mini sheet

This sheet can go in a Monaco collection as well as in a Balloon, Space or Europa CEPT thematic collection 

Switzerland Vignette from year album/yearbook 1999 

October 7th

Germany 1926 airmail stamps 

Michel 378/84 Scott C27/34... I always liked this set

October 25th

Netherlands 1967 Amphilex sheets

I have been eyeing these for a while now and they are finally part of my collection

On the sheets are stamps from the first 3 issues

Europa CEPT mini sheets and booklets

Just adding these to complete at least the common issues... still have ways to go

French Colonies Peace And Commerce 1877

I love these stamps from France, I loved them even more when they are imperforated like they were issued for the French Colonies

Michel catalog number 28, Scott catalog number 32

Belgian Telephone tete beche gutter pair stamps

These can't be found in the Michel or Scott catalogs

Luckily I have a buddy that has the Belgian COB catalog

Looks like catalog number TE29/TE32.. 

October 28th

Swiss stamps from 1989 -1999

Didn't have most of these... so this is a good percentage of stamps that I am adding to my Switzerland collection

Added to my collection September 2022

 This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in September 2022

September 1st

Belgium 1925 Kings Leopold I and Albert I

75th Anniversary of Belgian postage stamps. These were sold only in sets and only bu the Administration of Posts, not at all post offices

Scott numbers:  172/184

Michel numbers: 191/203

September 2nd

Germany 1912 Semiofficial Flight Stamp Margateten Volksfest Winged Man 50pf

Michel number 4a

Could these be Daedalus And Icarus? The catalog just says winged man

France 1942 Private Issue Legion Des Volontaires 

Action committee of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism

Michel II/V

September 12th

Austria number 1

That completes the first issue for Austria (1-5)

Now my messy page 1 looks like this

September 12th

Netherlands 1928 Olympic Games set

NVPH catalog 212/219, finally I completed this set  :-)

I only need 99 stamps to complete Netherlands till 1990 including semi postal stamps...

September 17th

Europa CEPT stamps

Europa CEPT stamps from Iceland, Germany, Yugoslavia and Greece

Netherlands Booklets

The Tintin (Kuifje) one is my favorite

France 1949, centenary of French stamps

Scott number 626

Netherlands William III 1913 5 Guilder

Just missing the 10 guilder from this set now :-)

Franz Joseph stamps from Austria

I already have a bunch of these but I need to check the various types as well as the numerous perforations that exist for these stamps (always a pain in the neck  :-) )