Our part of the country has had a very mild winter until the last week of January. – we caught the country wide winter storm that gave is a covering of ice and snow mix with close to one digit low and winds of 10-20 mph. Everything here was shut down completely for 3 days.
Road plowing doesn’t happen here!

So far February has been much warmer – highs in the high 50’s and low 60’s. We can live with that.

We have managed to produce a couple of printed price lists in January and will get one more out this month. Price lists have a back set to web site up dates as most collectors now like to shop on line. We still accept want lists and have a number of customers who fill their collections that way. We can almost always fill customers’ lists. We will supply singles or sets if have them. We welcome your lists and will work to send you exactly what you need.

If you read our news letters you have noticed my frustration with adding images to our on line listings. Our biggest problem with our web site continues to be keeping images posted properly. It would seem that it is a pretty routine matter to attach images to particular listings but it has not turned out that way. Somehow the images tend to migrate and/or disappear. Any time you need to see an image before you decide to purchase and one is not displayed just email us and we send an image to you immediately.

We have added several hundred new items in January to our web site. We also have acquired more really nice material and will several hundred more listings this month.

ABBREVIATIONS USED ON OUR PRICE LISTS – and on our web site.

We have been using these abbreviations for nearly 50 years and forget that some of our customers are unfamiliar with all of them. (We can tell from all the questions we receive.) We used to list all of abbreviations on the first page of each price list but have stopped doing this to save space. Here is a listing of most of those abbreviations. If you use our web site these abbreviations are listed via the link “Purchase Terms” at the top of the home page.

** – MINT NEVER HINGED
* – MINT HINGED
U – USED

ANK – NETTO Catalog

CAN or CANC – Cancel

CERT – Certificate

CL – Close

CPCR – Clipped corner
(2 Perfs or more)

CR – Crease

CTO – Cancelled to order

DG – DISTURBED GUM

DT – Design Touches Perforations

EX – Expertized

FD – First Day

FERCH – Ferchenbauer catalog

G – Good (stamps have large defects)

G/VG – Good/Very Good (stamps have small defects)

HOFF- Hoffmann PPC

HOR – Horizontal

HR – Hinge remnants

HH – Heavily hinged

LG – Large

M or MAR – Margins

MI – Michel Catalog

NG – No gum

OP – On piece (on paper)

PR – Paper remnants

P – Poor

PC – Pen cancel or post card

PF – Plate Flaw

PPC – Picture postcard

RC – Rounded corner

SE – Straight Edge
SM – Small

SP – Setenant strip

SPC – Special Cancel

ST – Stain

TY – Tiny

TR – Tear

SCHAN – Schantl Catalog

Vert – Vertical

NEW ISSUE SERVICE

If you would like to receive new issues from Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein or Luxembourg let us know . We provide new issues on a quarterly or annual basis. Our normal service is to send one copy of each Scott listed issue to our customers. We can, however, provide any new issue in any quantity as long as we are notified in advance of your requirements. We can provide sheets, combinations, booklets, postal stationery, etc.

2025 year sets for Austria and Germany are now in stock. Prices are posted on our web site.

R Schneider Stamps
PO Box 978
IOWA PARK TX 76367

Office 618 975 2099
FAX 940 213 3596

email RSchneiderStamps@gmail.net

web site
www.RSchneiderstamps.com