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 February 2023

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

February 1st

Michel Germany 1945 and later special catalog, Austria Special catalog

These are not stamps of course...

Ordered these in December but they have been stuck in custom since December 11th. got a refund and reordered, they finally arrived

Just looking at this one page of Austria overprint faults.....

I have a lot of checking to do.. just the 5 Heller stamps has 32 different overprint faults

February 3rd

Slovenia and Croatia S.H.S stamps

Lots of variety here with paper, colors perforations etc etc

Slovenia SHS 1919 3L19 imperforated in between

Scott 3L19 imperforated in between

Slovenia SHS Postage Due serrate roulette blind perforation

Scott SLJ30 serrate roulette blind perforation

Slovenia SHS 1920 Newspaper stamps surcharged with gum on stamps

Scott  3LP14, Ljubljana print, lithography, gum on both sides.

You can't really tell from this image.. but if you hold the stamps and move them towards the light, you can see it has gum on the side where the surcharge is

Slovenia SHS and Croatia SHS on postal pieces

A few used pieces, belowis also a video of these...

February 12th

Netherlands 1921 Goudse glazen

NVPH catalog 238/239

Notice the old spelling goudsche...

Netherlands 1956 Europa CEPT

The first Europa CEPT stamps issued

Europa CEPT several years

Ok, Ok, I went a little crazy getting all these on the same day  :-)

Europa CEPT 2000

Almost complete... missing just one stamp I think plus the unrecognized Bosnian Serb and Croat issues

February 28

Saxony 1855 King John I

German state Saxony 1855. Scott catalog 10, 11

Added to my collection in January 2023

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

January 1st

Netherlands 1852 King William III 5 cent pair

 

The first stamps issued in the the Netherlands in 1852. A nice pair. There are 6 different plates of this stamp.. once I figure out which plate this is, I will add it here

Netherlands 1907 Postage Due set 

Overprints on the M. A. de Ruyter set of 1907. There are 2 types of the fraction stamps

Netherlands Juliana and Number stamps from Booklets

These stamps are from several booklets

January 23

Switzerland 1923 airmail stamps

Michel number 179/184. I think these are real beauties....

Europa CEPT various years

These will go towards completing my Europa CEPT collection from 1956-2000, still have a long way to go......

Austria 30  year anniversary of Carinthian plebiscite

1950 Michel numbers 952/954, Scott number B269/B271

Switzerland 1915/1921 Tell tête-bêche pairs

Michel 138 type II, 158, 160a 

I love tête-bêche pairs... of course the real nice ones to have are the French Ceres and Napoleon ones

Netherlands 1952 Stamp Centenary of Dutch Postage 

Scott# 336-39 NVPH 592/595

There are 2 sets with identical stamps but in different colors. There were only 205,700 sets issued of the 4 pictured here. The ones in different colors were issued by the millions... 242 million for the 2 cent stamp (in violet color instead of brown)

Netherlands 1872 King William III 2.5 Guilders

NVPH number 29, Scott number 33. This is the first 2 color stamps issued in the Netherlands

Netherlands 1893 Princess Wilhelmina 2.5 Guilders

NVPH number 48, Scott number 53

And here they are side by side, father and daughter  :-)

Netherlands 1920 Queen Wilhelmina 10 guilders surcharged with 250 cents

NVPH number 105, Scott number 105... look at that.... the same catalog number

Added to my collection December 2022

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

December 7th

A whole bunch of stamps from the Netherlands

I have a fair number of those already used.. missing a few MNH as well as missing them completely

Netherlands 1973 ships

I just want to call out this beautiful set

Netherlands Ships Year 1973 NVPH catalog numbers 1026/1029

December 22nd

Netherlands 1875 William III to Heidelberg cover

The envelope is smaller than I expected

Switzerland 1854 Strubel Type Sitting Helvetia

I love these stamps... however there are up to 7 different printings, a few different types of papers, and also different colored threads.  I will just assume these are the less expensive Bern printing ones

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