MICHEL Deutschland (Germany) Catalogue 2024-2025

Content:

The MICHEL Germany provides an optimal overview of all German stamps, offers additional information on watermarks, perforations, counterfeit warnings, and other special features, thus offering collectors of German stamps the perfect balance between detail and clarity.

• Old Germany,
• North German Confederation and German Reich,
• foreign post offices,
• colonies,
• ship mail abroad,
• occupation issues,
• plebiscite areas,
• Belgian military post in the Rhineland,
• Eupen,
• Malmédy,
• Danzig,
• Memel,
• Sudetenland,
• field post stamps,
• local issues,
• Allied occupation,
• GDR,
• West Berlin,
• Saarland with OPD issues, and
• Federal Republic of Germany.

Description:

• The 111th edition offers greatly expanded information on the designers and engravers of the Saar collecting region, the French and the American-British occupation zones.
• Speaking of aesthetics: Numerous new illustrations were created for the new edition of the MICHEL Germany catalog – for example, in the Belgian Military Post in the Rhineland, Eupen, Malmédy, and for the postage stamp overviews of the GDR, Berlin, and FRG.
• And, of course, also for the latest new stamp issues of the German Post Office, which are presented monthly in the MICHEL Rundschau after the publication of the MICHEL catalog – along with captivating specialist articles on all areas of philately.
• The most striking price movements occurred in the collecting areas of Old Germany, stamp booklets of the German Reich, occupation in the First and Second World Wars, Sudetenland, local issues from 1945 onwards and Berlin (West).

On January 11, 2001, a stamp depicting the Calechutic pepper, now known as paprika, was issued in Germany. The image used for the stamp is taken from the herbal book of the skilled botanist Leonhart Fuchs from 1543 – the postage stamp MiNo. 2161 from 2001, the year Leonhart Fuchs celebrated his 500th birthday, is equally beautiful. But that’s not all. The stamp is also the first to be produced using the latest German perforation technique, the integrated loop perforation. Unlike the long-established comb perforation, in which the perforation holes are pierced from the paper with a single blow of the perforating comb, loop perforation is created by milling away the paper previously pushed out with needles. The German postage stamp series “World of Letters,” which began twenty years later, is also so interesting for collectors thanks to this distinction, as numerous stamps were produced using both techniques. This 2024/2025 MICHEL Germany Catalog presents, for the first time, a detailed catalog of the various perforation variations.
The stamp designers and engravers of the Saarland postage stamp issues were also skillful, and the depth of detail certainly required full concentration. A good reason to pay tribute to these artists in MICHEL.