NORWAY - Oslo Filatelistklubb Norway Specialised 2011

Published by Oslo Filatelistklubb. 468pp. Colour. Norwegian/English

Inc stamps on cover,;varieties, FDCs, miniature sheets, booklets, officials, Framas, coils, postage dues, postal rates, forgeries, postmarks 1845-1855, marginal imprints 1896-1937, watermark positions, thematic index, Norwegian/English/German glossary

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Philatelic Exporter review, courtesy of David Rennie (April 2010):

It is almost nine years since I had a copy of this title to review (see Exporter August 2001), and this latest edition includes all issues to November 2009. It is a full-colour quality paperback of some 468pp. There is a new Thematic Index, and the Cover table now includes the 1855-1909 period.

Many of the prose notes in the catalogue are bi-lingual with English, including the Foreword and the extensive Introductory Notes, (which include Printing Processes, Postmarks, Forgeries, etc.).; There are articles dealing with the "Posthorns" from 1892 and stamp production at Knudsens to 1937; another when the contract was switched to Moestue in 1937 and the issues through to 1974; the stamp production at the Bank of Norway from 1962 to 2000, and also paper types from the 1990s.

There are also two long bi-lingual articles dealing with Forged postmarks on 1938-1985 issue; the Postmarks of 1845 -1855, then a third, in Norwegian only, dealing with the "Posthorn og Løve dyptrykk 1937 issue when the Photogravure process was introduced for printing Norwegian stamps, by Peer-Christian Ånensen.

There is an extensive Norwegian/English/German vocabulary which helps make the catalogue listings themselves easily available to the non-Norwegian reader.

Unusually, the prices listed are for "sale/exchange of single stamps between collectors." Bulk prices or poorer condition items will be less; over the dealer's counter, higher. The editors note increases for desirable items, but a slack, even falling demand, for general material except for modern used material, and classic FDCs.; Recently a large influx of Skilling-franked covers indicates a buyer's market for these items until they become absorbed.

Finally there are Tables of Postal Rates and a list of Philatelic Societies in Norway.