I’ve been commenting about our great weather all this year so far. We have had blue skies, moderate warmth and just enough rain to keep everything green. Starting in mid July we finally hit some hot weather. We had a dozen 100 degree days and the streak continues into August. Fortunately I can still do jy gardening by telling my gardener what needs to be done! (I’m good at giving guidance.)

We have acquired several exceptional collections and I have really enjoying working through them. For August we have finished updating our zusammendrucke listings and updated our Germany Scott 500 and 600 numbers adding hundreds of new items. Our listings of the regular issues of that period have been greatly expanded to include a myriad of new color and overprint varieties. Our advanced collector customers will have a field day going through some very seldom seen issues.

We also updated our Germany back of the book items for this month – lots of new items here.

I should remind our customers that we do fill want lists also. Collectors always have singles that they are either missing or wish to replace for better copies. We usually can supply singles from sets at prorated prices. You can send us want lists or add wants into the remarks section of online orders and we will do our best to supply them. We will also seek out difficult to find items for our advanced collectors.

Austria – Ferchenbauer Catalog

Ferchenbauer Handbook of Austria 1850-1918 – published in Austria in 2008 is the most complete catalog in the world of Austrian philately for the years covered. This handbook/catalog is published in four hardbound volumes and totals well over 2000 pages of information. This catalog includes everything philatelic pertaining to Austria during the years 1850-1918. It includes images of stamps and covers in the most accurate colors of any philatelic publication. One can identify shades accurately by comparing stamps to the handbook’s images!

Although in German, the catalog listings are easy to use because of the detailed descriptions and the clear images. (The Austria Philatelic Society (US) has translated a good portion of this catalog already.) This catalog is for more advanced collectors who are acquiring covers and cards, or collect the many varieties that exist among the early stamp issues

The Handbooks are available in the US only from our firm. The price is $400 Postpaid. (We no longer maintain a stock of these sets but can acquire them quickly for collectors who want them.)

R Schneider Stamps
PO Box 978
Iowa Park TX 76367

Office (618) 975 2099
Fax (940) 213 3596

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