Archives (original site)

Following the creation of this blog allowing on line access to the updated catalogue, the original web pages http://www.philarz.net became obsolete. Over time, the original web site is bound to disappear. For collectors interested in understanding the origin of the information dispatched in the present catalogue, this page displays the blog pages and the document produced over the 25 years prior to the availability of the 2022+ catalogue. This section is divided in five parts:

The Catalogue Quarterly Reports, complement to the 1998 Catalogue of Joint Stamp Issues (Volume 1 to 15) published on a quarterly basis between 1999 and 2001, and distributed to the members of the JSIS. These documents were available first in French and German, then in English. They were printed in black and white, format A4 folded in A5 booklets (these leaflets were never available on line before and are reproduced here in color, whenever possible)
The Quarterly Reports (Volume 16 to 39), only in English, improvement of the Complement, published between 2002 and 2006 (A5 size booklets), distributed to all members of the JSIS time, and produced until the 2006 Catalogue of Joint Issues became available on line
The 2006 Catalogue of Joint issues (English) – 500 samples were printed (a few remain available if interested)
The Catalogue Supplements published on a yearly basis between 2007 and 2022 (English) until the 2022 Catalogue became available on line
The pages of information from the first web site (http://www.philarz.net) that were filed in the News Archives. These pages were updated regularly between 2010 and 2020 (English) and archived in Quarterly pages. These pages were disabled in the meantime and the complete information is reproduced here only as pdf pages.

From 2022 on, the new catalogue became available, and the information added regularly is associated to the News pages of this new web pages and blog

Catalogue Quarterly Reports – Archives 1998-2001

Following the edition of the first Catalogue of Joint Stamp Issues 1998 (in French language), Quarterly Reports were provided in form of printed leaflets which are now made available here in color forms. The first series was distributed between 1998 and 2002 to collectors members of the JSIS. These leaflets were originally available in French or German and later (1999) only in English. They were printed as A5 black and white booklets. These Bulletins / Rundschreiben / Quarterly Reports provided updates of the catalogue as well as news about joint issues. They contained also additional Monographs and short dedicated Articles. Each February issue was provided together with the updated chapter of the catalogue, describing discoveries and all issues from the previous year. These catalogue updates (1999-2005) in French language are not provided here (The cumulated number of pages of the below described on line available documents reaches 178).

1998 February – Edition 1F (4 pages) – French
1998 February – Edition 1D (4 pages) – German
1998 June – Edition 2F (4 pages) – French
1998 June – Edition 2D (4 pages) – German
1998 October – Edition 3F (4 pages) – French
1998 October – Edition 3D (4 pages) – German
1999 February – Edition 4E (4 pages) – English
1999 May – Edition 5E (12 pages) – English – This report includes the Monograph 1 of the China (PR) – Switzerland twin issue [T19981125]
1999 August – Edition 6E (12 pages) – English – This report includes the Monograph 2 of the Australia – Ireland – Canada [S19980115] and Australia – Canada [S19990319] joint issues
1999 November – Edition 7E (16 pages) – English – This report includes the Monograph 3 of the Belgium – Hungary twin issue [T19930315] as well as the minutes of the foundation meeting of the International Philatelic Society of Joint Stamp Issues Collectors (IPS-JSIC) from October 12, 1999
2000 February – Edition 8E (4 pages) – English
2000 May – Edition 9E (14 pages) – English – with special chapter related to “1975-1999: 25 years of Joint Issues – a retrospect” and includes also the Monograph 4 of the Belgium – Spain twin issue [T20000221]
2000 August – Edition 10E (12 pages) – English – with special article “Cancellations special – Mixed covers can be produced using the normal postal way ! A story”
2000 November – Edition 11E (16 pages) – English – with special articles 1) “Personalized covers – Mixed covers in artist’s hands” (Rita Drach); 2) “Stamps bringing countries close together – Joint issues are still of high interest” (R. Schmalenberg); Monograph 5 “William Saroyan issue (May 22, 1991)” [T19910522]
2001 February – Edition 12E (4 pages) – English
2001 May – Edition 13E (16 pages) – English – with a new display, separation in sub-chapters entitled ‘Society Life’ – ‘New Issues’ – ‘Concentrates’ – ‘Caught in the Press / Caught in the Net’ – ‘Letters to the Editor’ – ‘Facsimile’ – ‘Investigation’. This last chapter depicts the Soviet Union – USA joint issue (Eberhard Cölle) [T19750715]
2001 August – Edition 14E (16 pages) – English – The ‘Investigation’ chapter describes “The 1977 and 1979 Cap Verde and Guinea Bissau identical joint issues – Postal stationery (re-)discovered” [T19771115] and [T19790803]
2001 November – Edition 15E (16 pages) – English – Articles about “Errors on Joint Issues – Anachronisms, spelling errors, wrong representations and much more ” (Pascal LeBlond and Richard Zimmermann); Monograph 6 “Jacques Cartier – April 20, 1984” [T19840820]

The following Quarterly Reports were based on the same design, but became available on line in parallel.

Quartely Reports – Archives 2002-2007

During the period 2002-2007, the structure of the printed leaflets called Quarterly Reports was adjusted and the booklets became available on line, while these documents continued to be distributed to all members of the JSIS in a printed form (A5 booklets). The original pages are not supported/updated anymore and their access will obviously be automatically disabled over the next period of time. The content is outdated, but details can be of interest for those looking for sources or details about some joint issues released over this period. These reports were written in English and the number of pages increased from 4 to 32 per booklet over time (the cumulated number of pages reached 592).

16 – 2002 February
17 – 2002 May – Monograph 7: “Canada – USA: The Saint Lawrence Seaway joint issue – June 26, 1959” [T19590626]
18 – 2002 August Monograph 8: “Wings for Norway – A non-issued Twin Stamp Pair” [N19460328]
19 – 2002 November Article: “United States joint issues”

From 2003 on, the booklet was completely redesigned

20 – 2003 February
21 – 2003 May – Monograph 9: “2002 Soccer World Championship Joint Issues” [T20020427]; Article “French Joint Issues”
22 – 2003 August – Articles: “Joke issues”; “German joint issues”
23 – 2003 November – Articles: “Joint postal Stationery”; “Benelux countries joint issues”
24 – 2002 February
25 – 2004 May – Articles: “Entente Cordiale: joint issue between France and Great Britain (6 April 2004)”; “Joint issues involving Spain”
26 – 2004 August – Article: “Joint issues involving Switzerland and Liechtenstein”
27 – 2004 November – Monograph 10: “The 1940 British French joint issue project” [T19400000]; Article: “Joint issues involving Portugal and colonies”
28 – 2005 February
29 – 2005 May – Articles: “Czeslaw Slania: master of joint issues”, Pascal LeBlond; “Canada and British North America joint issues”
30 – 2005 August – Articles: “Meet the designer: Xerxes Irani”, Pascal LeBlond; “Stamp printing processes and joint issues”; “Looking back: Sweden-United States (1983)”, Pascal LeBlond; “Joint Issues involving the People’s Republic of China”
31 – 2005 November – Articles: “Meet the designer: Keith Martin”, Pascal LeBlond; “Market analysis and catalogue quotations: the 2004 SAPOA miniature sheet as an example”; “Ship post cancellations: the 50th anniversary of the Bonn-Copenhagen declaration or a different first day cover from the ‘Vogelfluglinie’ “, Wolfgang Heinssen; “Joint issues of Russia and the former USSR”
32 – 2006 February
33 – 2006 May – Articles: “Documents Philatéliques officiels: Worth collecting ?”, Pascal LeBlond; Engravers of Swedish Joint Issues”, Pascal LeBlond; “Italy area joint issues”
34 – 2006 August – Articles: “Black prints and joint issues”; “Belgian joint card”, Pascal LeBlond; Dutch-German Rembrandt issue with a big sensation”; “Apollo-Soyouz mission of 1975”
35 – 2006 November – Articles: “Engravers of joint issues (200-2006)”, Pascal LeBlond; “Dutch-German Rembrandt issue – the story continues”; “Australia and New Zealand joint issues”
36 – 2007 February
37 – 2007 May – Article: “Chinese joint issue: A hitherto unknown publication”, Pascal LeBlond; “No bouquet of flowers”, Rindert Paalman
38 – 2007 August – Articles “Dual and mixed official Swiss First day covers” and “50th anniversary of the Pan American Union (1940)”
39 – 2007 November – Article “The Fournier Archives”

From 2010 on, the Quarterly Report was replaced by an on-line only report.

Catalogue of Joint Issues 2006

In 2006, the catalogue of Joint Stamp Issues became available in a printed form in English. This book is now reproduced here as a pdf form, in color, accessible on line. It has been divided in three files: a) the cover pages, b), Part I, corresponding to the first half (Introduction, Unique, Se-tenant, Twin and Concerted issues); c) Part II, the second half of the catalogue, including the Parallel, Omnibus and Territorial issues as well as the indexes. This book remains available in a printed form (black and white) for those interested , but all the content is outdated (the cumulated number of pages reaches 732)

Catalogue 2006 supplements – Archives 2007-2022

As soon as the Catalogue 2006 was published, yearly updates in English were printed and available for sale (the cumulated number of pages reaches 758)

Quartely News – Archives 2010-2020

The following links point at all the pages published on line over the period 2010-2020, under the title “Joint Stamp Issues News”. Those documents are pdf copies of the original pages (the cumulated number of pages reaches 1,072) intended to retrieve the original sources of the information that was in the meantime transferred in the catalogue supplements. Links within these documents are not active anymore.

From the above content, all information important for the catalogue have been introduced in it. The pages contain additional information about the history of the creation of issues, as well as supplementary illustrations such as original non-approved designs, or by-products, or non-approved issues, that were not relevant for the catalogue.

From 2021 on, this web site took over these pages with information provided now as a blog integrating the News pages.

The former web site contained also Quarterly pages describing the individual joint issues as complement of the 2006 pages. All these pages became the basis first of the catalogue supplements, then were integrated in the 2022 new catalogue. The information from these archive pages is outdated and there is no need to display them here as all of their content is dispatched (updated and corrected if needed) in the presently available catalogue.

The former web site which was available under the address http://www.philarz.net will soon be disabled from the screens, but will remain available through the Google Archives / Wayback Machine platform.