Deutschland 2024/2025

CONTENT OF MICHEL CATALOG DEUTSCHLAND 2024-2025 Old Germany, Northern German Confederation and German Reich, foreign post offices, colonies, foreign maritime mail, occupation issues, plebiscite areas, Belgian military mail in Rhineland, Eupen, Malmédy, Gdansk, Memel, Bohemia and Moravia, general government, Sudetenland, field post issues, local issues, Allied Occupation, GDR, Berlin (West), Saarland with OPD issues, Federal Republic of Germany. DETAILS On January 11th, 2001, a stamp showing a Calechutian pepper, today known as chili pepper, was published in Germany. The depiction used for the image on the issue was taken from the herbal book created by the skillful artist and botanist Leonhart Fuchs in 1543 – making the postage stamp MiNo. 2161 from 2001, the year of the 500th anniversary of Leonhart Fuchs’ birthday, equally beautiful. But that is not all there is to it. Said stamp is also the first issue produced in the latest German perforation process, the integrated ground perforation. Unlike the traditional comb perforation, a process during which the perforation holes are cut out of the paper by a single strike of the perforation comb, the ground perforation is a method where the paper, which has been pressed out by needles, is grounded off. This difference makes the German postage stamp series “World of Letters” so intriguing to collectors since both processes were used to produce several values of that series. The Michel Catalog Deutschland 2024/2025 presents a detailed cataloguing of these different perforation variations for the first time ever. The designers and engravers of the postage stamps issued by Saarland had to be skilled as well since the in-depth details certainly required utmost concentration – another reason to honour these artists in MICHEL. This…