2021 was a whole lot better than 2020! We are back to normal activities pretty much across the board. All of the thigs we were doing at the start of 2020 we doing again. Stamp sales dropped off a bit in the late fall – I suspect largely because many collectors were back to doing other things. I have had more time to organize our stock -I redid several stockbooks and rediscovered lots of stamps I forgot we had

This month we have updated our Germany price list part C which includes issues from Scott 530 into the 2021 issues. We also repriced all of the items-most when down rather than up as has been the trend for post WWII issues across the board.

Next month we will update our German occupations list part C2 which lists primarily Memel and Poland. We are also working on the Soviet Zone price list – we have lots of Michel varieties to add to the list.

Actually we are working on updating several other price lists at the same time so our schedule is a bit flexible. We are also adding new listings on our web site on a continuing basis as we acquire new items.

NEW ISSUE
SERVICE

We are just now mailing all of the 2021 new issues. 2021 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 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 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.

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.

Our Price Lists
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Over the years our customer orders have shifted from coming from our price lists to ordering directly from our web site. Nevertheless we continue to mail at least one price list every month. The printed price lists do contain many more items than are listed on our web site – especially singles form sets. We try to send you only those price lists that you want. Following are all of the price lists we publish. If there are any that we publish which you don’t receive but want, just let us know which additional lists you want.

➣Austria and related areas

➣Austria covers, cards and ganzsachen

➣Germany proper

➣German WWI and WWII occupations

➣German Private Posts

➣German Zusammendrucke

➣German Offices and Colonies

➣German States

➣German area covers and cards

➣DDR

➣Soviet Zone and Post War Locals

➣German Private Post

➣Luxembourg

➣Year Groups

Keep in mind that we review our mailing lists often and try to limit our mailings to active collectors. If you have not made a purchase during the past year, your name may be deleted from our mailings. If you haven’t ordered anything in a long time but you still want our lists please let us know.

Contact us at:
R Schneider Stamps
PO Box 978
Iowa Park TX 76367
Office 940 213 5004
FAX 940 213 3596
email RSchneiderStamps@gmail.com
web site
www.RSchneiderstamps.com