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- it only contains Russia, meaning Soviet Union is not included
- all areas normally associated with Russia are excluded, like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasian rep., Ukraine... as well as the post-Soviet Union/GOS states after the Soviet Union fell apart.
- no zemstvo's (although that is a collecting area that is normally ignored, but one would expect / hope it was included in a "specialized" catalogue).
So why would anyone wish to spend 69 euros for such a flawed catalogue? Is the information about the pre-1917 period and the post 1990 period that good that it warrants its purchase? Or is this a retorical question...
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A neo-Stalinist gesture, wiping out the USSR at one stroke, even as the purged elements of bourgeois formalism were removed from 1930s photographs - combined with an anti-Putinist gesture warning him off certain Europhile sovereign states! That's a lot of gesture for a German catalogue company, but the propaganda drive to correct the mind of the average collector from Moscow to Vladivostok starts here!
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Actually I did come across with this title few weeks back, and wrote a short review of it: http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/a-quick-review-of-michel-russia-specialized-catalog.php. I had more or less the same impressions as you.
I do understand why they've opted out the Soviet years and the Republics. It would have made a seriously thick volume (something that Michel seems to be striving away with exception of Deutchland Spezial).
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I have this catalogue, and i am happy with it, it all depends on how to use it.
It is portable and suitable for a quick and detailed look when visiting events or auctions.
One of the best Russia and areas catalogue is undoubtedly any part of Ray Ceresa's five volume 'The Postage Stamps of Russia 1917–23'.
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michel.de has a Q/A section in their community ... you should post there. catalogs have many formats ... usb, pdf, paper
http://forum.briefmarken.de/
if you browse with chrome, autotranslate ...
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Today I saw Michel's specialized Russia catalogue. While I was leafing through it, I started to wonder what the use of this catalogue was. In my opinion, any Russia collector cannot be anything else than disappointed because:
- it only contains Russia, meaning Soviet Union is not included
- all areas normally associated with Russia are excluded, like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasian rep., Ukraine... as well as the post-Soviet Union/GOS states after the Soviet Union fell apart.
- no zemstvo's (although that is a collecting area that is normally ignored, but one would expect / hope it was included in a "specialized" catalogue).
So why would anyone wish to spend 69 euros for such a flawed catalogue? Is the information about the pre-1917 period and the post 1990 period that good that it warrants its purchase? Or is this a retorical question...
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re: Michel Specialized Russia catalogue
A neo-Stalinist gesture, wiping out the USSR at one stroke, even as the purged elements of bourgeois formalism were removed from 1930s photographs - combined with an anti-Putinist gesture warning him off certain Europhile sovereign states! That's a lot of gesture for a German catalogue company, but the propaganda drive to correct the mind of the average collector from Moscow to Vladivostok starts here!
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re: Michel Specialized Russia catalogue
Actually I did come across with this title few weeks back, and wrote a short review of it: http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/a-quick-review-of-michel-russia-specialized-catalog.php. I had more or less the same impressions as you.
I do understand why they've opted out the Soviet years and the Republics. It would have made a seriously thick volume (something that Michel seems to be striving away with exception of Deutchland Spezial).
-k-
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re: Michel Specialized Russia catalogue
I have this catalogue, and i am happy with it, it all depends on how to use it.
It is portable and suitable for a quick and detailed look when visiting events or auctions.
One of the best Russia and areas catalogue is undoubtedly any part of Ray Ceresa's five volume 'The Postage Stamps of Russia 1917–23'.
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re: Michel Specialized Russia catalogue
michel.de has a Q/A section in their community ... you should post there. catalogs have many formats ... usb, pdf, paper
http://forum.briefmarken.de/
if you browse with chrome, autotranslate ...
cheers
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