Yet another new year has arrived – they seem to come quicker and quicker. We thank our comers for another good business year and we look forward to another..

We had a lot more holiday sales at the end of last year. Usually December is our slowest sales month. I suspect the cold snap we had across the country may have had many of us working on our stamps. The has returned to normal here – our lows are staying above freezing and day time temperatures are in the mid to high 50’s.

We switched our web site to a new provider last month and as always happens the switch resulted in problems displaying our price lists. The listings are correct but the are either missing or messed up. We have been working on recouping our images but it is a slow process – if you need to see an image before you decide on a stamp, just let us know and we send the image to you via email. The good news is that the new provider is much faster at solving the inevitable problems that occur on web sites.

Last month we added several hundred better items to online listings and will add several hundred more this month. Most of new additions are one of a kind better items that offen sell quickly. If you are looking for hard to find items it may pay to check our listings frequently.

We have completed our year sets for 2022 and they have been added to our year set listings online. We cringed at the amount of new issues from Austria in 2022. Although a much smaller country than Germany their new issue face values were $100 more than Germany. As most Austrian stamps are not sold in local post offices the target market for all of their new issues is clearly stamp collectors.

NEW ISSUE
SERVICE

We are just now mailing all of the 2022 new issues. 2022 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 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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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