Identifying and Collecting German Germania Postage Stamps
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Enjoy a look at my German Germania stamps. I talk through the varieties and give hints about how to identify them. I also show how I structure my homemade album pages. Oh, and there's a giveaway.
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Hi Ken. Just saw this today. Great info and video. I am still trying to sort my German stamps out. But keep adding to them too. Best regards from James in Scotland.
That’s a great collecting problem-getting more stamps than you process
This is the type of video I have been looking for. One that explains what to look for to sort the different issues, not just a bunch of random prices on a list that are not even close to right. This is BY FAR superior in every way to 90% of what I have found out there. Please keep making vidoes, I wish I would have found this channel a lot earlier. This type of information is what you need to know, thanks for making these videos I will be waiting for more! I love the information and the ways to sort them properly by printing types, paper types, watermarks everything and this is the best information source I have seen on video so far. I am an instant fan and will be hanging around to see what happens next.
Ha! I wasn't making this channel earlier. It's new to both of us.
I'm glad to share that all the Germania give-away packets have been spoken for. Thanks for watching
I find myself anticipating your episodes much like a couple of the longer established RUclips philatelists. You have excellent presentation skills and are very informative. Keep up the great work!
Thank you, Jeff! Glad you are watching
If you still have a giveaway i would love to claim one.
I am just starting a collection of German stamps and you have greatly increased my knowledge!! Thank you for all the information you are passing along! It is invaluable.
I do. You are welcome to one. Email me an address to send them to. And while you are at it, tell me what else you collect so I can try to find some other goodies to send along with them.
Thanks Ken. Very informative interesting. Excellent way to lay out the series. Iam also a avid US collector became very interested in the German Empire stamps for all the reasons you have mentioned. I now have quite a large collection including the states prior to 1872 and foreign offices and colonies. I 'am forever finding out variations and occupations I didn't have knowledge of Thanks again.
Share if I missed anything. I'm sure I did.
Thank you for your informative video on these German stamps. I have a number of the 1872 imperial eagle stamps, including 8 covers bearing these stamps. I have always looked at the shield, never thinking about any other distinguishing characteristics on these stamps. Now that you mention the difference in the wings of the eagle,between the two sets, I can see exactly what you mean.
I sometimes forget to look at the shield and just look at the wingtips mostly
Thank you so much for this video Ken! As a brand new philatelist, I was hoping you might talk a little about the difference between the "Peace Printing" Germania set, and the "War Printing." I've tried to slog through it, and could use a little help! Thanks for ALL your great videos Ken!
You know, I've heard those words, but I haven't dug into what they mean. Let me take a look.
Thanks Ken! My research keeps coming back with conflicting stories. One is that the change from the lozenge to the network watermark denotes the difference. Another understanding is that there were real physical difference related to paper and ink shortages during the war. I know the King George the VI war issues faced the same problems.
Thanks again Ken!
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@@AuroraMills I'm almost done with my deep dive into this. I'll cover it in my next episode. I can assure you that it's not the change from lozenge to network. I can also assure you that the process is not easy. My best recommendation is that there will be some you can confidently call peacetime and some you can confidently call wartime, and about half that you won't be sure about. But, I'll go over what I learned in about a week, I think.
Thanks, Ken, interesting video. German history is complicated! I have quite a lot of Germany stamps in World mixes of stamps, still to be sorted. At least I will now recognize something when I at some stage will start to sort them. :) Thanks for sharing how you arrange your German album.
I hope you find a gem there
Hi Ken. Just discovered your channel. Excellent content. Thanks for uploading.
Glad you found it. Welcome
Hi Ken, great video and thanks for the content. The Germania series is extremely fun to collect but personally I always get quite exhausted and cross eyed after a bit, sorting them between the various watermarks and slight color differences so can only do it every so often.... 😅
I completely empathize
Great video Ken !
Thanks for the visit
I’m just starting my sorting of my stamps. I have received so many from Germany. My mother and her parents wrote to each other so much! I’m researching while learning best practices of all stamp handling details. I absolutely love how you broke down each of your pages and shared. Thank you. I’m interested in the samples if you’ve any left.
How wonderful. Send me an email with your address and I’ll send you out a packet
Great Video and presentation. I could listen to you all night Thank You Ken G
I'm glad you enjoyed it
Hi Ken, great video on identification and sorting of Germania stamps! Thanks for sharing how you format your album pages and layout the information. I'm always looking to get ideas on how others organize and display their collections! Cheers
Thanks! And Happy New Year!
You have a decent collection of German stamps! Thank you for sharing, Ken.
Thanks for watching!
New subscriber! Yes, finally someone that has created a very informative video.
I have an extensive Germany collection and enjoyed this. Please continue the great work of
promoting our hobby. I will check out your blog too ... :)
Welcome and thank you. Don’t get too excited about the blog. It’s just a place to share some images so far
A very helpful video as I am trying to work through the Germanic series. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!!
Fantastic video. I love your collecting style and I appreciate how you talk about your decisions around organization. Would love it if you zoomed in closer to the stamps, or at least the page you're showing. I keep wondering what's in the bottom right corner of the page, especially after you described your methods. I've signed up to your blog and subscribed to the channel. Thanks for sharing what you know! 🙂
Thank you. I appreciate the feedback about zooming in more. I'll do that where I can.
Yes definitely zoom in.
Hi Ken. Great intro to Germania stamps. Just a note that the Danzig overprints had nothing to do with WW1 occupations as you suggest. Danzig was part of the Imperial German Reich in WW1, so would have used normal Germania stamps.
The overprint version was printed for the newly created Danzig Free State, formed by the Treaty of Versailles.
Thanks for your note. I love learning more as I go. This is so helpful. I've tended to sort Danzig stamps with Poland. Given what you know, does that make sense?
@@KensStampCollection Hi Ken, thanks for your reply. The history of Danzig is fascinating and well worth a closer look. It was the capital of the autonomous 'Free State' created to give the newly formed Poland access to the sea at the treaty of Versailles. It really should be in a category of its own as it issued its own stamps and currency with the Germania overprints being the first version of this in 1920 but putting it in with Poland does make sense as the majority population in the countryside around Danzig was Polish. The catalogues tend to sort it with Germany however as the population of the city of Danzig was mainly German. Indeed, Danzig was the capital of the German State of West Prussia for a couple of hundred years prior to this.
Always great things to learn in this hobby
Thank u, that was alot of great info
Very welcome
Thank you so much for this video! Learned a lot!
I'm so glad!
I have just printed the summary document you shared. Thanks for this! It will be very helpful as I start my Germania journey today 😊
@@ThreeStunStamps Let me know if it helps
@@KensStampCollection super handy! had it pinned on my work desk wall, totally made sorting faster as you made the tables very easy to follow. I am done with the first round of sorting for 1900 - 1902 issues.
@@ThreeStunStamps I love to hear it!
Thanks for the video Ken. I have some German stamps. Ha be to look at mine and study them
Let us know your favorite finds!
Just found your videos. Thank you very much for explaining something that has puzzled me for awhile. Scott separates large shield and small shield but does not really show what to look for and since the center is white I was very confused. l Now can go back to see if the ones that I have bought are in the correct space.
Oh, you’re right. Those are hard with Scott alone
Since the center is round a looks like a shield I was looking for a small and a large circle so you can see my confusion.
I had exactly the same confusion
Hi Ken, thank you sooo much for posting this video! I will have to watch it a few times to remember all the information you mentioned but this will definitely help me in sorting through my German collection issues. I really love the format you used and how each page has headers and all the other listed details. Do you sell copies of those pages that you made? I would definitely buy a packet of those pages from you. Anyways thanks again for breaking down all the details of these stamps. I’ll be watching this again as well as the other videos you posted. I am a now a subscriber for life.
I'm so glad you found it helpful. I don't sell copies of my pages. I think that would run afoul of Scott copyrights. A friend could give a friend a copy for personal use only. Send me an email with what you want and I'll send you the files.
Very informative video.
I share your interest in German stamps but find them kinda confusing sometimes. And love that you created your own album. Maybe i should do the same. May i ask you what kind of catalog you use for your German stamps?
I've gotten so much from making my own albums. I recommend trying it at least. For my German stamps, I used the Scott catalog ... so far.
Super 👍
Glad you visited
Are you still sending out your duplicate stamps? I am trying to learn how to properly sort still, I sorted enough to learn that I had it all messed up. The first thing I started collecting was the overprinted stamps of Hungary from WW1 they are very interesting to me then I was able to buy a pretty good Germania collection and I sorted everything out and then learned I had it ALL wrong. It's a lot to learn but its fun and channels like this one have been a huge help to me. You have the best one so far on actually how to tell them apart. If you would like to exchange anything for some of your duplicates let me know and I will see if I have anything you're interested in. I have been an APS memeber since 2020 and love meeting fellow collectors because here in West Virginia there aren't that many stamp collectors, actually I'm the only semi serious one anyone knows around my town. Anyway, great videos I can't wait to see what all you come up with I love the information and seeing the stamps they always have such an interesting story if you take the time to look into it. Have a great day hope you keep making these videos I have watched them all today and they are fantastic keep it up!
I have 4 packets left. Send me an email with your address and I'll send one out to you!
I'm so glad you are enjoying the channel. It's notes like this that motivate me to make more.
Ken, I’ve put together some album pages specifically for the Germania issues…only the A16 and A22 designs…plus the overprints. If you’d like, I’d be pleased to share the .pdf file.
I have about 26 red boxes of German stamps from the states, Empire, Weimar, Bundespost and modern plus DDR and so on. If you’re missing any Germania stamps, let me know and I’ll be happy to send some your way.
Send along the file, I'd love to see that. Yes, I'm sure I'm missing some. When you send the PDF, I'll reply with some of the ones I'm looking for.
26 red boxes. That's a lot of dupes! I bet you have a heck of a collection.
Hi Ken, another really informative and useful video. I would be interested in receiving your giveaway if any left? I would like to start to catalogue mine better based on your info, and I have printed your sheets which are excellent. Thanks. John
Thanks John. You got it.
For others following - there is one Germania stamp packet left.
Very nice video , I love Germania stamps , looking for them with SOTN cancellations , that are readable , if you have any I am interested. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching. If I find any, I’ll let you know
Thank you so much@@KensStampCollection
Hi! I have world stamps collection's, that I'm selling them. I started collecting since I was 10 yrs. old I am now 65. I have a lot's of Germany Deutsches Reich- Soviet zone... This is part of the whole world stamps album. Thank you Ken! I like how your presentation very knowledgeable.
@@evilofeldstein4449 thanks for watching
Me have 1000 of many old German stamps many like to same ur album
Wonderful, enjoy them!
Really interesting video mate - nice !! Have an awesome day!💥From Fun At Home (Hot Wheels, Lego, Cards & collectables) 👍
Thanks for the visit - you too!
I adore Germania stamps (and other Reich stamps, I collect that area) but telling the difference between the war and peace print is quite difficult to me. Some are very obvious, others really not. I find it especially difficult with the higher mark values (The large ones) to tell them apart sometimes. Also for some reason finding a good condition of the lowest value of the ‘Reichspost’ ones has been difficult. Every copy of it I come across is in bad shape somehow.
Though at least it’s not as bad as some Bavarian stamps in which the only difference (toned or white paper) is sometimes impossible to determine due to age.
I must admit that I'm aware of this difference, but haven't tried to distinguish the issues. I have a Scott catalog, but not the more specialized Michel. Any hint about how to approach this?
I think I'm still at the level of enjoying the history of transition from German states to empire and the quick dissolution of that after WWI. Fascinating for me to realize that there were all these countries that combined to become the Germany we know today. Such interesting history.
Michel does give an example of the two, but it’s like the most obvious examples. War printings tend to have a blurrier image and be printed on lesser quality paper. It says to look at the lines behind the head, but sometimes that’s not quite enough.
Yes I find that very interesting as well. Of the German states I’m currently mostly focusing on Bavaria since that’s where the first German postage stamp comes from. (Not that I have it or many of that imperforate first series’ of stamps) I have gathered a few of Würtemberg, Danzig and others too, but haven’t made an effort like with the Bavarian stamps.
Still have to sort my Germania overprint issues too. So much fun to be had in German stamps :)
Sir I had many stamps collection of many countries ..as of collection stamps in my country Philippines ..please help me to sell all of these stamps .thank u
Hi - I get this question from time to time, so I wrote a blog post with my limited advice: kensstampcollection.blogspot.com/2023/09/kens-advice-on-selling-stamp-collection.html
Best of luck and thanks for watching
Ich habe mindestens 500 st.So viel Arbeit.
A relaxing evening's work.
Hallo zusammen.
Wir brauchen jemanden, der deutsche Proof-Stempel mit Proof-Wasserzeichen versteht, zum Beispiel 5Pf mit Wz.multiple 🍀
I would love it if you found someone to help through this channel. Consider reaching out to germanstamps.net.
@@KensStampCollection thx 🤝
I've got a lot of the same stamps in my collection, Ive been getting really into finding local and private issue of Germany between 1945 and 1946 there a bit different
Another person pointed me to those stamps. They took me down a rabbit hole. Interesting issues. I cover them briefly in my "deep dive" video. Thanks for watching.