The Philatelie or stamp customer concerns themselves with the systematic collecting of Postwertzeichen as well as of vouchers for its use on mails of any kind and the study of post office-historical documents.

The term

The term Philatelie was coined/shaped by the Frenchman Georges Herpin in the first expenditure that Paris stamp magazine Le Collectioneur de timbres postes on 15 November 1864. It meant translates its that from state loads is taxfree from the Greek "friend" (griech. philos = friend, griech. ateleia = rest-free, taxfree). The translation of "friends of the stamp" or "friendship with stamps" is clearly wrong. The idiom "which from state loads is taxfree" stands for marked stamps, since the postmark freed the sender from further deliveries.

Although this word describes the collecting passion of the Philatelisten only conceivablly badly, it became generally accepted with the collecting tanks in all languages. Other suggestions as for example Timbrophilie or Timbrologie disappeared soon again. The German language offers the variants "stamp customer" and/or "stamp collecting tank" to the Philatelisten.

History

The initial years of the Philatelie

The Philatelie has its beginnings briefly after the expenditure of the first stamp of the world. It concerns the One in such a way specified penny of Black, to 6. May 1840 in Great Britain was spent. The introduction of the stamp in other countries help also the stamp collecting to its spreading. First one collected the small Postwertzeichen from the day's mail from fun and used her for example for pasting lamp screens or wallpapers, which nearly always destroyed the collecting objects.

Only slowly some people began themselves to concern with the stamps more exactly. The number of the stamps, which were spent at the time at that time, was still very small. For the collecting tank at that time it was natural to put on so-called general collections. This means that the Philatelist took up all stamps of the world to its collection. This would be nowadays inconceivable with the mass the different stamp spending. In the early initial years still no aids or storage types were to the Philatelisten, like stamp albums at the disposal.

The first aids for the Philatelisten

In the year 1860 the first stamp albums of the world appeared. This had developed that Paris Philatelist Lallier. It however still concerned simple querformatige briefcase, which was bound in leathers. For all so far stamps of the world appeared were put on on the right in each case sides a blank field, into which the stamp should be in-stuck. On the left sides facing in each case were the coat of arms, the flag as well as a short description of the Geografie and the stamps of the country spent so far.

The large deficiency this stamp album consisted of the fact that the individual stamps had to be stuck directly with bone glue or rubber arabicum into the album. This damaged the stamp, particularly with the attempt of the replacement, strongly. Numerous Philatelisten thought over a better kind of the keeping of its "treasures". Reasonable alternative was found however only 21 years later, in the year 1881.

Already one year later, 1861, the first forerunners developed for that today stamp catalogs. The Britisher Dr. John Edwars Gray as well as the Strassburger Berger Levrault developed the first so-called stamp listings. To the same time it came to the establishment of the first stamp associations. In them collecting tanks could exchange for the first time their experiences and its knowledge as well as its stamps.

In the year 1862 it came to the expenditure of the first philatelic technical periodicals. With the first philatelic technical periodical it concerns "The Monthly Advertiser", which appeared for the first time in the native country of the Philatelie on 15 December 1862. Shortly thereafter also the first technical periodicals in Germany and Austria Hungary appeared. With the first stamp trade paper of Germany it concerns the "magazine for stamp collecting tanks", which for the first time at the 1. May 1863 was spent by the coin and antique business Zschi & seal from Leipzig.

The stamp magazines promoted above all the exchange of stamps between the Philatelisten. In addition they reported worth knowing one the Philatelie on the New editions of the whole world and informed the collecting tanks about everything.

In the year 1881 the first creases for stamps appeared. These solved at longer term the problem of the keeping of stamps. The stamp creases were spent by Frankfurt stamp dealers the Dauth. One called it at that time still "mark Chaniere". 1000 pieces of the first stamp creases of the world cost only 75 Pfennig.

Before the invention of the stamp crease there were some imaginative provisional solutions, in order to prevent the direct bonding of the stamps into album. One broke for example the unnecessary edges of elbow of the stamps so over that a part of the adhesive surface is stuck on the stamp and the other part of the edge of elbow on the document. The stamp crease functioned according to the principle of the attachment of stamps on album sides by means of edges of elbow, it for it was however particularly manufactured.

In the following decades the stamp crease became generally accepted as means of mounting for stamps with the Philatelisten. This was considered naturally also with the production of the stamp albums. In addition ever more new forms came on the market. Nowadays no more stamp creases are used, since these damage rubberizing easily. After the Second World War they were replaced from clamping coverings and other systems of the stamp keeping, which any longer did not require it to glue on the marks somewhere.

The stamp albums were improved likewise. In the year 1884 Dauth drove a "mechanical stamp album out". This was the first stamp album of the world with screw attaching. It facilitated a simple exchange and inserting of individual sheets of the stamp album.

Emergence of associations and meetings

Beside the new aids for the Philatelisten also ever more stamp associations and meetings developed particularly for the Philatelisten. Already from the year 1856 meetings of Philatelisten are well-known in the USA. In the year 1866 it came to the official establishment of the first stamp association of the world. It acts thereby around the Excelsior Stamp Association out of the United States. Two years later, in August 1869, it came also into Germany to the establishment of the first stamp associations. The first German stamp association, the South German Philatelisten association, was created in Heidelberg. Followed in the next three years Dresden, Berlin and Hamburg.

The rising number of philatelic associations led to numerous unions. In Germany this is today the federation of German Philatelisten, in Austria the federation of Austrian Philatelistenvereine and in Switzerland the federation of Swiss Philatelistenvereine.

Since 1889 give it the Philatelistentag in Germany, which took place for the first time in Mainz, on which all stamp collecting tanks meet annually once. With the time many further large meetings developed approximately around the stamp.

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