Delcampe Magazine 1 Find the rare gem among more than 80 million collectibles! With more than 1 million active users per month, Delcampe has been the collectors’ favourite partner for 20 years. Whether you collect stamps, postcards, coins or any other items, Delcampe is made for you. Registration is free of charge. Buyers do not pay any Delcampe commission. Our selling fees are among the lowest on the market. Join us to give a new dimension to your collection! The collectors’ marketplace www.delcampe.net 2 Delcampe Magazine PUB_EN_A4_TCM_2020_NEW.indd 6 27-11-20 14:28:27 Editorial A second Delcampe they talk about their subject never magazine special is- change. Collectors like to discover sue is a wonderful thing! and help others discover, which After receiving your many is why I’m so happy to share this messages of thanks and magazine with you. encouragement after our first The www.delcampe.net website magazine came out, we had just celebrated its 20th birthday along- one thought: to do it again! Well, side collectors on the first of Oc- now it’s done! tober. Twenty years during which The world of collecting has many tens of millions of collection items resources available, as you will have changed hands thanks to the see in this magazine. We cover website. The following article will an extremely wide range of to- remind you of the highlights of the pics which includes the history of company founded by Sébastien Camembert, invoices, maps, an- Delcampe which has, little by litt- nouncements and more...The pur- le become the leading collectors’ pose is to ensure that everyone website in the world! can find at least one topic of inte- Before exploring the traditional rest to them. and whimsical collections we will I’ve been lucky to work with many introduce you to, I would like to collectors over the past years. I’m take this opportunity o wish you a collector too and what strikes Happy Holidays and all the best me is that, regardless of the col- for 2021, which certainly will be lection, people with a passion better than 2020! editorial always understand each other. Happy reading! They don’t always use the same vocabulary and aren’t necessarily interested in the same things, but their interest in research, the joy of finding what they were looking for and the stars in their eyes when Héloïse Dautricourt Delcampe Magazine 3 Delcampe. Your best partner for buying and selling collectibles. The collectors’ marketplace PUB_EN_SHA_Acheter_Vendre_2020.indd 1 27-07-20 14:31:28 The philatelist’s letter 16 to Santa Claus Delcampe 3 Editorial 6 Delcampe is 20 years old! 8 Some memories Stamps 16 The philatelist’s letter to Santa Claus 18 Stamp collecting clubs 21 Varieties of contemporary stamps Collecting Camembert labels 28 Coins 10 A few tips to get off to a good start in numismatics 14 What if your €2 coin was worth €1.500? Postcards 24 The Louvre yesterday and today The Louvre yesterday 38 Royal postcards and today 24 Bar & food 28 Collecting Camembert labels Vinyl 30 The wonderful story of vinyl Old paper 34 Collecting old maps 44 Collecting announcements The wonderful story of vinyl 30 46 Invoices can be worth a lot of money Table of contents Table Photography 36 Photography, the best witness to the fashion of yesteryear Collecting old maps 34 News Delcampe is 20 years old! It’s been a long time since young Sébastien Delcampe, just 20 years old, pro- grammed a website for his collector friends in his kitchen! Over the years, the Delcampe website has grown into the largest marketplace for collectors. This deserved a special issue to thank all of our collectors. The magazine, translated into six languages so that every one of our communities can enjoy it, is now before your eyes! We’ve come a long way in 20 years! We started The Administration, Customer Service and with a single category and have 28 today! We’re Sales and Marketing teams are on the upper proud to serve collectors every day. Delcampe floor. These teams are in direct contact with welcomes over 150,000 new collection items members and work to make Delcampe easier daily. to use. They are with you to make the website However, Delcampe is also a team of 30 people appealing and friendly. on two floors: 2020-2021 is a very special time for us. We re- The technicians and product development cently launched our not-for-profit. This initiative team are on the lower floor. They ensure that is very important to us. It will enable us to stren- the Delcampe website is always available and gthen our activities in four areas: the well-being that you get the benefit of new functionality. of children, the well-being of elderly people, the 6 Delcampe Magazine News environment and the promo- tion of collections. Other actions for our members are planned throughout the year. This magazine is one of them. A collector stamp, a se- rigraph, and a collection post- card were created and given recently. We will also be events partners and our 20 bottles of champagne contest got under way in early December. Many technical improvement projects are in progress. We’re getting ready to launch our automated shipping manage- ment system which will enable you to immediately see your fees on the item page. But this is just the beginning! We would like to take the op- portunity of this article to thank all of those who have joined us since the year 2000. More of you bring the Delcampe web- site to life every day and we’re very grateful to you! We could never have celebrated this bir- thday without your support thoughout these years. We hope to celebrate many more with our collectors! Delcampe Magazine 7 20 happy years by your side some memories! 8 Delcampe Magazine Delcampe Magazine 9 Coins A few tips to get off to a good start in numismatics I asked Bruno Visentini to help me talk to you about numismatics. Bruno is the president of the Fédération Française des Associations Numismatiques (French Federation of Nu- mismatics Clubs). In this capacity, he agreed to answer my questions to help explore this wonderful passion. What is the best way to choose father’s collection and carry on. a numismatic collecting theme? The decision comes naturally. What do you collect? In the beginning, you often take I started collecting Russian coins, everything and, over time, some from the first “Tmutarakhan” numismatic themes become struck in 980, to the coins before more interesting than others. Peter I. That allowed me to learn It could be history, Napoleon or Russian history. After that, I col- the royals, but it’s often related to lected French fractional coins the region you come from. Many (10 cents, 20 cents, 25 cents, ¼ people collect coins minted in franc, 50 cents, ½ franc), in ex- cities like Toulouse, Lyon, Bor- ceptional condition (FDC – MS deaux, etc. because the cities 65 to MS 70). The small units are all had mints. Some inherit their difficult to find in FDCs because 10 Delcampe Magazine the relief is very fine. That choice A coin tells a story. I mean coins taught me to appreciate the qua- before the euro. Look: the frank A few Delcampe lity of the coins. My approach with a horse. It’s the first French figures is that I would prefer to have 30 frank. This coin was issued in Over 660,000 coins avai- quality coins in my collection than 1360 to pay the ransom of John lable for sale. 500 of average quality. Since I be- II the Good (1350-1364) when he Over 417,000 banknotes came a professional, I don’t col- was a prisoner of the English. for sale. lect anymore because I always On the obverse side is John II the ask myself the same question Good on his horse with the fol- Over 1,800,000 items when I come across an exceptio- lowing inscriptions: IOHANNES sold in these categories. nal coin: should I let a customer DEI GRATIA • FRANCORV REX, enjoy it or should I keep it? I’m pre- which means: John, By the Grace paring a themed collection for my of God, King of the Franks. daughter (horses) from antiquity The reverse side has a fluted cross to our days. with leaves emerging from it, and a four-lobed leaf at the heart, in an What are the must-have tools to angled quatrefoil decorated with get started? palmettes and bordered by four The most important thing when trefoils with the following inscrip- you start is to know what you tion: XPC VINCIT • XPC REGNAT want to collect. The most impor- • XPC IMPERAT which means: tant tool is patience, but you also Christ conquers, Christ rules, have to have many books on the Christ commands. topic. With digital, it’s easy to get On the obverse is the symbol of started. However, I prefer to read the authority which struck the specialist books. When I started coin (portrait or monuments for collecting Russian coins, I bought commemorative coins). quite a few books on Russian On the reverse side is the main history from the 18th and 19th motif with the face value. centuries because they really des- Tail = reverse/Head = obverse cribed the history of the country at that time. As a result, you can How do you find new pieces for have a beautiful library and coin your collection? collection. For the numismatics Most of the time by attending col- books, I tried to find the ones our lector and numismatic exchanges predecessors had in their child- and trade shows.