Joint Issues - Call for Help

To create an international society that has to work with members spread all over the world is not as easy as it looks. Tools like these web pages or the quarterly written reports are intended to link all these members together and to bring up-to-dated information to them. However this work cannot be done by a couple of isolated collectors and information has to be gathered from all over the world. Therefore this call for help...

Although being initiated in France and Germany (and therefore initially in French and in German languages), this action needed to be pursued in English in order to be accepted and understood worldwide. 

The main problem is that the English language used in these pages is not really excellent and should be corrected and/or improved by someone who is a native English speaker ... and a joint issue collector, of course. Anybody interested? Thanks for sending an e-mail

Actually it is not forbidden to translate these pages in any local language (if somebody has enough time and courage), but English will remain the language of the main pages.

Stamps - New issues

The information on new issues is obtained through newspapers, philatelic homepages or postal advertising (see Web links). However, this information is not always accurate and reaches us through indirect ways. Internet is probably the best tool to create a network of local correspondents, which could inform everybody about the latest issues or the issues to come. One collector per country who could play this role of information link would be sufficient and the information could be centralized here.

The information required has to be related 
- to issues released in the past twelve months, including data on FDC's, official mixed documents, maxicards, ... 
- to issues announced or in preparation, 
- to addresses for buying these items, 
- to web addresses for retrieving this information.

Of course information about European or North American (except Mexico) stamps is easy to find. We expect more from local correspondents in Asia, South America or Africa.

Stamps - New Issues - Specific needs

End of 2001, information on the following local stamp issuing programs were missing:

• Any information on African country issues produced between 1996 and now
• Next issues to be released by South American countries and small Asian countries.
• Update on the recent Mongolian issues 
• I was recently very surprised to find identical cancellations from different countries not related to a stamp issue. 

It appeared to me that this example opens a completely new field in the collection of joint issues, namely joint cancellations. A stroke of luck brought these three cancellations to my attention, but I am convinced that this is not the first case. Therefore we have to show that in the past this happened several times. There is no catalogue or book were you will find this information. One has just to be aware that it is existing and I am awaiting information on such item from all of you. The hunting is now open.

However let us fix some rules. The definition of "joint cancellations" can fit with the definition of joint issues, however we will limit ourselves to twin cancellations as joint twinning of towns cancellations are numerous. In other words, cancellations must have the same design and the same date of first use. Moreover, we will not take in account cancellations in relation with joint stamp issues as, obviously, almost all joint stamp issue is coupled with a joint cancellation. Let us now see if somebody will find further examples and send me a e-mail as soon you have something to propose. Many thanks for the help.
 

In general .... we are looking for ...

• Any information on issues that have been forgotten
• Information and copies of illustrated first day cancellations used in connection with joint issues
• Copies of older dual/mixed covers (as proof of joint issue) or copies of postal administration mail exchanges or administration reports about these joint issues
• And finally, in general, any information on mixed FDC's (stamps from both countries involved on a same cover with local first day cancellations) and maxi-cards released by local postal administrations or privately produced in the past couple of years involving non-European countries. 

• Please check also specific requests detailed in the chapter Latest Issues which lists the most updated but incomplete information.

This information was latest updated on August 24, 2002.

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