I hope everyone is well and looking forward to some warmer and dryer weather. Our pond completely filled up over the past few months, with all the rain, so I am slowly removing some of the water so that it doesn’t overflow and start flooding part of the garden. My chainsaw has just been serviced in readiness to start cutting up some logs to refill the log barn. The birds are enjoying the seeds and peanuts we leave out for them. A lonely pheasant has been visiting us and the wood-pecker has returned, along with the more usual birds that we have here – blue tits, coal tits, wrens, blackbirds, finches of several kinds and of course doves and magpies. Our 3 chickens are giving us 3 eggs a day and the grand-children have just been helping to feed them and clean them out. I love this time of year as it is a good opportunity to clear some of the garden before Spring starts.
Notgeld – A colleague in Germany has been helping me over the past few months to acquire new notgeld pieces for my collection. It is always good to have knowledgeable collector colleagues to chat with and to bounce ideas off. To be able to share knowledge and experiences is a good thing. I have obtained several true specimen types as well as some scarce revalued (OVP) notes.
I am currently, trying to recompile one of my books, ‘REVALUED GEMS’ to become ‘ SERIENSCHEINE REVALUED GEMS’, as that is a more specific area and one that I am more attuned to. The Lindman catalogue that deals with the serienscheine OVPs was published way back in 1990 and the PUZ (very limited edition printed catalogue), only copied the values across. The whole valuations need bringing up-to-date. Some scarcer / rare pieces see their valuations increase but others will decrease…… as the market evidences.
I am always looking for serienscheine true specimens and serienscheine OVP pieces, so please do get in contact if you have any for sale, especially the scarcer types. Here is a nice addition I recently acquired. Originally issued in 1921 with a face value of75pf, it has later been overprinted to 500 mark, in November 1922. This Triebes OVP variant also has a red stamp mark across its front and back:
