What's in your Library?

That makes sense -- modern Gabon stamp issuance after a certain point definitely exhibits some of the behaviors of the Trucial States. Thanks for the info jdtrue66

Not a new addition at all, but I can also show a book by these authors.  In my case it fits two of my collections - apart from stamp collecting, I also enjoy book collecting (or book owning, more to the point I suppose).  I'm always pleased to find an old Pelican book (1956 first printing in this case) and if I can get one dealing with stamps, then so much the better!



Ryan

love that Penguin stamp p/b Ryan - must buy that one - I too am a hoarder of books.

Gavin - don't throw out that '44 catalogue - can make for interesting comparisons when you're old and grey.

Received this recent auction win yesterday -- an unused copy of U.S. International Postal Rates, 1872-1996, by Anthony Wawrukiewicz and Henry Beecher. For $15.00, I think I got a very good deal!

I purchased a used Linn's Almanac (1980 edition) to get some country descriptions for my ASFEC (A Stamp For Every Country) project. I found this information was also on the Linn's Stamp News web site but it is an interesting look back at 1980 just after the bubble burst in stamp collecting in part due to inflation and following recession.

The stamp popularity polls may offer some insight on opinions in the 50s. In those days it was all mail in votes.

Another country for which I wanted a specialized catalogue is off the list.  This is the last edition edited by Valera before he sold the catalogue to Aurelio Blanco. The most recent edition of the Blanco is from 2009, but I understand that it is much less detailed than the final Valera editon, so I went for this when I saw it on AbeBooks. Almost 500 pages of info on all aspects of Venezuelan philately

I got lucky. This one was from a dealer in Buenos Aires. Shipped via DHL only took 4 days to reach me. 

Specialized catalogues and monographs are really good investments if you can find them. The sad thing is more and more specialist literature is out of print so the knowledge they contain is at risk of loss for future generations. One reason why I am bringing this specialized content to Colnect is to make more and more collectors aware that there is much more to collect than what Scott, Gibbons, Michel and Yvert list.

I’ve always said “mich’ el making the ich sound like the word German word for “I” “ich” - that very back of the palate gargling sound, almost in your throat. English doesn’t have that phoneme. 

I pronounced it like your link (consider this matches philatelia) but do not consider Mickle or Mickel as a good English phonetic equivalent.  My ears do not hear a very hard c as "ick" that I read as a very hard c.  There is that "s" sound in it.

For example, an English person would likely pronounce Mickel like the word nickel.