stamp album question

[Craigob]

Greetings.

I just picked up a green leather binder made by lighthouse and inside is a set of SAFE ALBUM sheets with b/w images of 3rd reich stamps with small celophane covers over them where i guess you can slide the original stamps in.

There are hundreds of the these pockets and im wondering if this covers everystamp issued between 1933 and 1945 Inside the cover is printed - deutsches Reich 1933-1945?.

i guess my questionn is, is this a very modern item?

Thank You

[J Howland]

The desire for totally "hingeless" stamp albums started in the US roughly in the seventies. European collectors were always much more fixated (obsessed?) on owning stamps that had never been mounted in an album (by using traditional glassine hinges).

I haven't collected German stamps in many years, but the chances are that what you have is of relatively recent manufacture, particularly if the pockets are built into the pages. The hingeless aspect of your album virtually precludes any chance that it was manufactured before the 1960's.

If you are not a stamp collector, but want to know if there is space for all of the '33-'45 stamps, go to your local library's reference section and look for a Scott Stamp Catalog. That will help you out if you check out the regular, the semi-postal, the official and the airmail sections for Germany...

Jim

[Richard]

Chub, SAFE albums are a popular stamp album used extensively by collectors in Europe. They are super safe (hence the name) for stamp storage and incredibly user friendly in that they depict an image of the stamp under the glassine pocket that would hold an original. If a stamp has the same image but different denominations (such as a stamp with the same image of Hitler's head for example), only the first window of the page will have the image and the rest will just describe the color and denomination in several languages. These are not an old item and are currently still for sale to collectors to store their collections. Whether you have the complete run of pages for every stamp issued is anyone's guess as these pages are placed in a ringbinder album where you can add/take out pages.
Richard V

[Craigob]

Thanks for your input guys..

It has 45 pages and even has Italian and what i think are russian stamps (well the images of them) towards the rear, it has the lufpost stamps, many feld post stamps..I only paid $15.00, its nice.. oh By the way, it seems to be held in place with a huge clip not rings

[ramon]

Hallo,


To see if the album pages are covering the entire 1933-1945 era, check to see if the first stamps pictured comprise the 3 stamp set bearing the image of Frederick the Great. The final issue in 1945 will be the 2 stamp set bearing the images of the SA and SS men.

Welcome to the the world of stamps.

Ramon