“Social Philately” is the name of a Trend that should give stamp collecting a new Image, and in the case of a stock exchange, much.
Anna Lifted
From the U-Bahn-Station pine garden you have to follow the men with the backpacks, fabric bags, briefcases, the Lord’s hand bags. For three days the stamp collector’s meet in the event centre of MOC, an offshoot of the Munich trade fair. There, between stalls with postcards and letters, albums with white pages, a magnifying glass, tweezers and, of course, very many stamps from different times and from all over the world, among other things, the dealer Wolfgang Lang. He can no longer explain why the Hobby is far from so, as someone who does not collect stamps, corresponds probably.
of Course there are always the traditional collectors, “checking off their lists,” says Wolfgang Lang – “but that dies out”. The Hobby has changed in the past few years. Modern postage stamp enthusiasts are interested not only for the jagged Rectangle, stamped or unstamped, but also for the postal history, the culture of that time, the historical background – for the whole around it. Social Philately is called, a direction, which was developed primarily by Australia and pushed forward. “The us is no longer so cranky,” says Lang. “We believe that the Trend to save us.”
Jürgen Tandler searches for treasures in boxes.
(photo: Catherina Hess)
For example, Thomas Höpfner, he is the spokesman in the regional Association of Bavarian Philatelic societies, a man with a tie and a mischievous Smile. He started as a eight-year-old Boy, in his family, he was the first for stamps enthusiasts. Half a century has passed since Höpfner watched for the first Time in the Post, he got the Finger, more accurate. Really seriously, he had operated the Hobby then as a young man, 18 years old, he had the areas first collectible. A Stop is for him not to imagine that he wanted to do this for another 30 years, he says, and his eyes light up, as he would again the eight-year-old Boy. Also Höpfner has traditionally started and its focus with the time dilated: the postal history and Social Philately. Even professionally, he deals with stamps: As a Commission agent, he sits for wealthy collectors in auctions and bids for you.
Social Philately, this is reminiscent of Social Media, and although the stamp collecting has fundamentally to do with communication, it can be pretty lonely. In a corridor between the shelves, which are filled with green plastic boxes, sitting on this Saturday lunch on a simple chair, Jürgen Tandler, 49. He arrived from the Nördlinger Ries and spends each of the three days on the stock exchange. Currently, he is flickering the shelf meter that he has made for this day. This means that all the letters and postcards in the green boxes in the Hand and check whether anything interesting is in it – or, rather, it sticks. A Fund is a piece of something of value, would have to be “the rates of fees consistent”; so it must be the right amount of stamps on it. Hard to imagine that this is the letter he is holding in the Hand, the case adds to the many red marks has been transported to the letter, of the 24 million Mark to Plauen in the Vogtland. But that was during the high inflation in the 1920s. Thanks to his passion for collecting he learn a lot about geography, says Tandler, an engineer by profession. In the case of unsuspecting candidates in TV quiz shows, think he’s always, “you must know”.
Speaking of quiz shows. “What is the name of the first German stamp was issued in 1849 in Bavaria?” That was when Günther Jauch times the million-dollar question. “Black ones” is the right answer, and this Black one, now a precious rarity, is admired as a complete double arch on the stock exchange, at the level of the auction house Christoph Gärtner. “Since three-quarters of a million Euro is about”, says the employees dry, as he fishes the bow that is soon to be auctioned together with the Rest of the series, from the showcase.
Ralf Vick presented the famous “the Black one”.
(photo: Catherina Hess)
In the middle of the hall is also the traditional collectors, those who tick off lists, and complete sentences according to the catalogue. About 30 thick albums, own Walter Dittmar, 68, says, Gauting – his collection no one will not inherit, unfortunately, “because my sons are interested in both.” That there is the philatelic talent, but also proves to, for example, Jonas Vester, 11, the shows other children how to replace the brands of letters. Last year, he won the German team Championships for young stamp collectors, with his Team third place. Jonas plays Basketball, goes swimming or busy with his cell phone – which he researched, however, since the happy times in an online catalog of stamps.
From Odense in Denmark is the distributor of Kim Faurschou and his wife Ask came, one of the few women in the hall. If your husband was going to a trade show, she says, they’ll take a vacation and help him. You have early knew what she was getting into. “When I met him, he asked, are you going home with me, I’ll show you my stamp collection. I thought, great, a man with a sense of Humor.”
