We had a really nice holiday season this year. I played a lot of bridge and ate a lot of good food!

Again in 2025 December was our best sales month. Traditionally December is our slowest month and we get a lot of projects done. .The last two years have been major exceptions. I think the unusually cold weather we have had throughout the country may have kept collectors inside and working with their stamps.

We did make a number of good acquisitions and will be adding many new items to our listings I coming months. As most of you know we now have more detailed listings on line than via our printed price lists. Most collectors now buy their stamps online. When I began stamp dealing 50 years ago I was in the military and sold via mailed price lists. Every month I would have my stencils typed by my secretary and I would get the old mimeograph machine out and print the lists from the stencils. Today’s computer and printers make generating price lists a bit easier. I just looked to see if mimeograph printers still exist outside of museums and found none,

We have completed our year sets for 2024 and they have been added to our year set listings online. This year Germany and Austria both issued crypto stamps. They are listed in Scott catalogs as major issues so collectors who want a complete year set have to buy them. The postal folks have another money maker.

NEW ISSUE SERVICE

We are just now mailing all of the 2024 new issues. 2024 was another record year for new issues for both Austria and Germany, Both countries issued complete series of regular issues to cover every price category for their postal services. These issues included many high denomination issues and pushed the face value of their year sets to all time highs.

If you would like to start a new issue service, we can supply anything that the posts of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein or Luxembourg issue. We tailor our new issue mailings to the needs of each customer. Most customers collect all of the issues listed by Scott catalogs as major catalog numbers as these will be the stamps that spaces are provided for in American made albums. Some of our customers use European albums and we can tailor our mailings to include issues that will appear in these albums too.

If you want to sign up for new issues, all you have to do is let us know which issues you want and we will send on approval via quarterly shipments. (We can also wait until of the end of each issuing year and send you new issues in one big batch. The yearly shipments have become very popular as you can not put the stamps on anyone’s album pages for at least several months into the next year). No deposit is required. (We prefer though that you give us a MC/Visa/American Express account number and then we charge the issues as we ship them – it really simplifies our book keeping.)

Dr Ferchenbauer’s Austria Handbook
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We continue to maintain a small stock of the 2008 Ferchenbauer edition which is in 4 hardbound volumes and weighs 18 pounds. (That’s 3 times the weight of the 2000 edition.) There are about 2800 pages total – each page in color with images that are so true in quality that they can be reliably used by collectors to verify their own varieties. Essentially the catalogs list and describe all philatelic items created from 1850 through 1918 – stamps, covers and postal stationery. Prices are given for all items.

The 2008 catalog is expected to be the last edition of the handbook. We are the sole US distributor for this handbook/catalog set. Again – we have a small supply of these catalogs on hand. The price of the set of 4 catalogs – delivered – is $380.00.

Due to the high shipping weight, we offer these catalogs to US customers only.

2024 YEAR SETS

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We have the year sets for 2024 in stock. We apologize for the prices of Austria new issues – Austria is issuing more and more stamps each year and the Crypto stamps are expensive and in limited supply. Unfortunately Scott has been including the Crypto stamps on their album pages and in their catalogs.

Germany – NH or Used- $199
Austria with Crypto Stamps NH – $348
Austria without Crypto stamps NH or U- $324
Liechtenstein NH or U – $197
Luxembourg NH – $108

OUR PRICE LISTS
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We still maintain printed price lists but publish them much less frequently. We spend much more effort keeping our web site listings up to date because that’s where most are of customers are now.

If you would like our printed lists just let us know and we will send them as issued. We have multiple lists for each of the 4 countries we stock. Be such to let us know your specific collecting interests and we make sure you get the price lists of interest to you.

R Schneider Stamps
PO Box 978
Iowa Park TX 76367
Office 618 975 2099
FAX 940 213 3596

email RSchneiderStamps@gmail.com

web site
www.RSchneiderstamps.com