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Hoi Camiel. Die oude zegels zijn ook heel interessant. Ook goed grafische ontwerpen, ondanks dat het doel van die oude zegels niet altijd even goed was. Maar daar kunnen de zegels niks aan doen. Ik vind de moderne zegels erg 'hit and miss'. Desondanks toch een boeiend verzamelgebied. Hoe gaat het met jou overigens, nog plannen voor een video? Nog de beste wensen overigens!

@chrislovesstamps ja voor jou ook de allerbeste wensen. Toevallig heb ik gisteren weer de stoute schoenen aangetrokken en opnames gemaakt voor een video. Moet alleen een stuk opnieuw doen. Dus work in progress. Die oude zegels zien er grafisch inderdaad heel gaaf uit. Straalt een bepaalde waarde uit. Met de tijdgeest van nu onwaardig, maar ik denk dat die zegels exact uitstralen wat het Duitse rijk wilde: verhevenheid, krachtig, groots, oneindig.

Hi Jerry. Thank you! Yep, storage seems to be a recurring theme for me also ;-)

Hi. You are welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting! Happy New Year to you too!

Hi Serge. Yep, pretty good start. Thanks for watching and commenting. And a Happy New Year to you!

Hey Alexander. Thanks for commenting!

Goedenmiddag Charnie. Must be evening now in New Zealand I think. Thank you for the compliment. I really enjoy being back. It is a fresh start but all so familiar too. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Peter. Germania stamps are really nice to collect. I am not too familiar with the Austrian Hungarian era to be honest. Happy New Year to you too, and thank you for watching and commenting!

Hi Laurent. Yep, very funny. Indeed, great minds think alike! Love that you did a trailer for the upcoming episode Monday. Think I am going to promote your video in a bit via a post on RUclips. :-) The trailer never really got much views, but I really liked making it. Because video and audio are so intwined. Looking forward to your next episode!

@chrislovesstamps I just saw it! Thank you again so very much, Chris! This means A LOT to me! Now I have more pressure on my shoulders... but I kind of like it! 😉😉

Hi Jeff. Thanks for watching and commenting. I am looking forward to your German stamps video and any video!

Hi John. The Germania series are really nice, and 'complex', at least to me. It is interesting that there are places that were German before. I didn't know about Sonderburg though. Yep, putting long running series together and then sort them by denomination and adding labels next to them is something I really love doing. I often derail from the order the catalogue has, it is a very handy tool, but not something I follow 100%. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Jeffrey. You're welcome. And thank you too!

Hi Kevin. I don't think I know that much either. It is a fascinating topic though. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Daniel. Was it the DDR or BRD that had this long running commemorative series about WWII concentration camps? Really interesting (and sad ofcourse). Are you familiar with these: - Netherlands Dutch Legion Stamp 1942 Sc#B144 and Sc#B145 - Netherlands Liberation Stamp 1945 Sc#277 - Netherlands 35th Anniversary of Liberty 1980 Sc#597 and Sc#598 - Germany Anne Frank 50th Anniversary 1979 Sc#1293 - Czechoslowakia 25th Anniversary of Destruction of Ludice 1967 Sc#1481 - Czechoslowakia 5th Anniversary of Destruction of Ludice 1947 Sc#329

Chris, I only started on this collection last week. I am not familiar with the German series or the ones from the Netherlands. I have the Czech stamps and some Polish commemoratives of people who died in the camps. Over the next few days I will go through my Scott Catalogues to prepare a comprehensive list and also go through all the world wide stamps I do have. Yes it is a very sad period of our history. In the spring of 2025 I will be teaching 2 classes on the Rwandan Genocide at Simon Frazer University. I do not recall if I had told you but from 199 to 2001 I was a War Crimes Investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating individual living in Canada who had allegedly participated in the Genocide and spent 9weeks in Rwanda Interviewing people.

Hi Jeff. I really like where I am now too. Needed some time to find my way, but here I am :-) I think it is very natural to get quite some German stamps. They are plentiful. More ideas/projects than time, isn't it? I wish you a wonderful 2025 also! Looking forward to your videos!

Hey Roger. Merry belated Christmas and I hope 2025 will be good for you!

Hey Bill. Thanks for watching and commenting. Yep, was a good haul :-)

Hi Pete. Germany is a big collecting area. Nowadays I think about current Germany and its stamps but I think in a philatelic sense I think Germany is a term for everything related to it, including Saarland. Collecting German stamps can be a lot in that sense. What do you think?

​@@chrislovesstampsI agree with you 100%. The reason I asked is that you showed a few stamps that also have Saarland versions. Since I don't have a Germany catalogue, I'm not sure how others tackle the divisions. Thanks for your amazing video and always appreciate your reply:)

Great video Chris of German stamps. Do you ever read any books about stamps? I am rereading a great book called Dead Countries of the 19th and 20th Centuries. It has a whole chapter on Germany and explains many countries that no longer exist. I haven't bought many stock books myself and don't like the dealer ones that have many of the same stamp. Keep up the videos and I'll be waiting for the next one.

@@KevinYeryar I know that book Dead Countries of the 19th and 20th century. I have a similar book in German. I do like catalogues and I have some printed papers about the Great Britain machins and precancels of the USA. Buying stock books with stamps already in them can be hit and miss. I have been lucky, but have to say these 2 German stock books have not been the best. Not the stamps and not the books. Buying specific stamps can be really rewarding and affective and does not leave you with a big accumilation. The advantage of a stockbook is that it is nice to go through and discover and often makes for a nice video. More videos will definitely come in the new year. Thanks for commenting and watching!

@@peteowe Hi Pete. Have you tried online (free) catalogues like Colnect and Stampworld? Can be handy. I would definitely handle Saarland as a separate country, same as Baden-Wurtemberg and all the Allied zones.

Hi. Yep, was nice to get this in for Christmas Eve. Loved making this one since it was a bit different. Not saying I don't like making other episodes...😂 The $1 is a beauty. I can see what you are saying about 'remiscent of engraved stamps'. I need to check that 1923 stamp. I get the feeling it'll be expensive because $5 in 1923 is not a value used much I assume? Thanks for commenting and watching!

Hi Dan. Same to you!

Hi Imad. Thank you for watching and commenting! I wish you the best too! :-)

Hi Kevin. Norway current is harder indeed and pricier. But the good thing is they do not issue a lot of stamps. The posthorn series is a nice area to specialise in, often overlooked. It is the longest running definitive series. Do yiu order mint?

Hi Laurent. I really enjoyed making this episode. I do with most episodes though, but this one was special. It is more towards where I want to go, little documentaries about stamp related content. The $1 is a beauty, it is also lightly embossed so it has this nice effect. Merry belated Christmas to you too!

Hi. What do you mean with 'everything is perfect'? :-) Merry Christmas (belated) to you too and a wonderful 2025!

Assembly and sweet postage stamps! :) Very festive! :D Best regards my Friend!!! :)

​@@ronal144thank you very much! 🙂

Hi Kevin. The pen cancellations are horrible. I did mail Canada post about it and then you get your standard political answer. Because I told them that stamp collectors are a significant part of the reason that letters etc. are still send. Because we do send stuff 'just' to get a cancelled stamp in our collection! I agree, it makes them uncollectable. I do not like them. The current definitives are really nice from Canada, so cute and small and showing scenes from around Canada. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Charnie. I have not hear of them before Kevin pointed me to them. I loved those stamps too, but the white/green one dollar is a beauty! Merry Christmas (again) to you and your family and a wonderful 2025!

Hi. I did not know wither. Apparantly there are more 'funny' names: Hot Coffee, Mississippi Satan's Kingdom, Massachusetts Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky Santa Claus, Indiana and there are more when you look on google :-) Happy New Year John! And I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

Hi Kevin. Used stamps are nice indeed, although I am considering switching more towards mint, or collect mint from certain periods. Germany can have really nice and clear cancellations though, which I love. Merry Christmas and a Happe New Year!

Hi Kevin. Let me know which you have. Do you collect Germany fully, or just certain sections, areas?

Hi Bob. Maybe you can send the letters to them and they can open and hand stamp them. Address a letter to them, and in that envelope a card with the address to you. More people seem to do that. I might try next year. Thanks for watching and commenting! Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2025!

Me neither. Thankfully Kevin pointed me to it. There are more funny or interesting town names in the US :-)

Hi Bill. Thank you. Was a blast making the episode. Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2025!

Hi Smokey. Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2025 to you and your family!

Merry Christmas Jerry! And a happy (and a better) 2025 for you and your wife! Keep stamping!

Hi Jeff. Have a nice Christmas and a healthy, happy, stampy 2025!

Hey Mark, thank you for being here. That was a long break, a really long break. Goes to show it is never to late to rekindle the love for this hobby. And I agree, so much to love. To that list (Continuing education, incredible art, history, endless amusement, the hunt) I would add English as a language also for me. And to creatively have an outlet through video editing and trying to make an authentic, yet entertaining and sometimes educational video. So much to love. And the hunt cannot be underappreciated. Same goes for organising, keeping track what you have. Furthermore, we need to support eachother. I mean, us content creators. Philately or stamp collecting is not dying, but we do not have too many content creators. Nice that it didn't go unnoticed. Thank you for being here and have a nice Christmas!

Hi Jeffrey. Have a wonderful Christmas yourself too, and a happy, healthy 2025 with lots of stamp time!

Hi. I will practice it :-) Merry Christmas!

Hi Charnie. There were some beautiful stamps there, but Germany doesn't have the most beautiful ones. I always liked the Luxembourg ones. New Zealand has a good tradition too when it comes to Christmas stamps. Have a nice Christmas Charnie! And a wonderful stampy new year and I hope everything works out in your new house!

@@chrislovesstamps Thanks!!!!

Joyeux Noël Laurent! Nice to have 'met' you and your channel in 2024!

@@chrislovesstamps Thank you and DITTO, my beautiful friend!

Hi. Thanks for watching!

Thnk you for watching!

Hi Jeff. What kind of German stamps have arrived/what did you order? Philatelically it is an amazing history, rich, complex and interesting.

Hi Vladimir. I will check out some more videos of you, on your channel. Japan is fascinating, but there is only so much time to collect and spent time on stamps :-( I do not like the more comic orientated Japanese stamps though. Thanks for watching!

Hi Vladimir. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)