EDITION D'OR

Among Brazil's most popular early stamps are the three issues of the so-called large Dom Pedro series of stamps, which appeared in 1866-1878. These issues replaced the previous so-called bull's-, goat's- and cat's-eye issues. The portrait of Emperor Dom Pedro was now the design that the American Bank Note Company produced by steel engraving in many different values. The issues are still among the most beautiful designs that Brazil has ever issued. They were collected by many enthusiasts in the past, especially as a wide variety of "dumb" and local postmarks of Brazil - which are quite affordable in good condition - could easily be collected on the stamps.

But anyone who hears the name of the collector Pablo Reim (b. 23 June 1955) of Buenos Aires knows that this well-known philatelist prefers and appreciates the special, the unusual. In addition to his home country of Argentina, he has several Brazil collections of outstanding quality. This specialised Dom Pedro collection is also an example of what competence, knowledge and many a lucky acquisition of rarities can bring about.

The collection, which is described throughout in English, is a traditional collection of its type. This means that it is dedicated in a specialised way to the stamps themselves, for which essays and proofs, then the stamps themselves, and finally their usage on cover are presented. As if this were a simple challenge, Reim has tried to put together for each value what was truly unusual: the largest known multiples and rarest letter frankings with some very unusual destinations and postage rates. He has succeeded in doing this very well and thus the reader finds many items of exquisite rarity and quality in pristine condition. The descriptions are kept short, but always provide the correct explanation for weight steps and postage for usages on cover. The collector of these issues will probably have his heart set on them, because he has probably never seen so many such things before. And if he has, then only in many auction catalogues of recent decades. In this book he gets such a comprehensive and concentrated view of these charming issues as is only rarely possible.

— Wolfgang Maassen (AIJP)

168 pages, hardbound with dust jacket, in English and German

When a philatelist with a collection of the semi-classical issues of a country achieves three Large Gold medals at exhibitions (in this case in 2010 in Buenos Aires, 2016 in Cordoba and 2018 at the FIP exhibition in Israel), then this collection must be something very special. It is clear that Pablo Reim, one of South America's leading philatelists, possesses such a collection. His other collections of the pre-philately of Argentina and Bolivia, of classical and semi-classical Brazilian issues, of Corrientes, etc. are also almost legendary.

Reim deals with the subject in ten "chapters", beginning with the "First Contract" up to the sixth printing order (1883 ff.). Included are the provisionals of 1877 and 1882, which became necessary because changes in postage rates resulted in a shortage of stamps and made it necessary to overprint stamps in the country. Reim follows this chronology in the traditional way of collecting that is typical of him. The stamps, their essays and/or proofs are at the beginning of each new issue. This is followed by the presentation of some of the largest known multiples in unused and used condition. Then follows a series of usages of the stamps of each value on cover - from single frankings to multiple- and mixed frankings. Postage rates and postage overviews are explained in each case. Even mixed frankings with other issues (such as with the preceding Rivadavia issue) and bisects are among the rarities that can be seen in this book in perfect condition and in large numbers. The variety seems inexhaustible, but notes such as "only three covers known" quickly make it clear to the reader that the material shown is anything but an everyday commodity.

The collection is perfect, an optical "delicacy" that can only be enjoyed. This book is only to be recommended to anyone interested in these issues, even if he cannot call comparable material his own.

— Wolfgang Maassen (AIJP)

188 pages, hardbound with dust jacket, in English and German

Just as the name Robson Lowe is associated with the promotion of postal history – the emphasis on rates, routes, origins and markings of postal covers – so the development of the analogous field of fiscal history – the focus on types, tax rates, origins, and historical and social aspects of revenue-stamped documents – has been the philatelic life’s work of Michael Mahler, whose panoramic exhibit of United States Civil War era fiscal history is presented herein.

Besides this signature exhibit, Dr. Mahler has garnered gold medals for a dozen different fiscal history displays, notably on California’s “Gold Rush” revenues; Civil War era use of Federal and State revenue stamps in Nevada; Oregon Insurance stamps; bonds of the Gilded Age showing New York’s Bond Taxes of 1911–20; legal and illegal usages of Proprietary, Playing Cards, and Private-Die stamps of the Civil War era; U.S. First Issue ultramarines; Florida in the Civil War era; whaling during the Civil War era; and the cotton industry during Reconstruction. Key items from all but the last of these are included herein.

He has been equally prolific as a researcher and writer. A Catalog of United States Revenue-Stamped Documents of the Civil War Era by Type and Tax Rate (American Revenue Association, 1999), awarded the 2000 U.S. Philatelic Classics Society Elliott Perry Cup, is arguably the most influential work on fiscal history published to date. The monograph How Were U.S. Civil War Documentary and Proprietary Revenues Made Available to the Public? (American Revenue Association, 1993) won the 1993 USPCS Carroll Chase Cup and 1994 American Philatelic Congress Colby award. He is the author of more than fifty articles on fiscal history, most often in The American Revenuer, also State Revenue News, Scripophily, Western Express, The American Philatelist and The Chronicle of the USPCS. Extensive online monographs on Nevada Territory stock certificates; Rebel Documents, Yankee Stamps (on federal stamp taxes in the states of the Confederacy); and California and Nevada State revenues all await publication in book form.

Readers will see herein not only examples of all document types taxed by the U.S. during the Civil War era, and virtually all rates, but in many cases the choicest – and in a few cases the only – examples extant. In the process, as expressed in the author’s overview, “These threads weave a tapestry that encompasses more than stamps, more than tax tables and rates; it transcends the normal bounds of fiscal history and reflects virtually all of life as it was during this tumultuous decade.” We take pride in making this the first U.S. exhibit to be enshrined in an EDITION D´OR, and look forward to fruitful collaboration with other U.S. exhibitors.

210 pages, of which 168 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in English

188 pages, of which 158 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in English and Spanish

160 pages, of which 128 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in English and Dutch

208 pages, of which 128 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in English and Spanish

260 pages, of which 238 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in German and English

New!

The book documents the introduction of the European Postal Services in Palestine, from the initial forerunners to the opening of postal offices until their closures in 1914.

134 pages, of which 117 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in German and English

New!

The collection comprises the beginning of the postal service in Nepal, starting with the British-Indian Post Office in 1816, up to the first adhesive stamps in Nepal, issued from 1881.

225 pages, of which 203 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in German and English

New!

This exhibit shows the political scene in Denmark and the influence of Germany during WWII, chronologically with philatelic and non-philatelic items.

163 pages, of which 132 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, in German and English