The following pages contain a thematic collection of Junkers related stamps and philatelic items. This collection is surely not complete and any info on further stamps, corrections are as well welcome as better scans of the illustrated material. The images are scaled for best view, that means, they are not shown in the same scale. Some stamps/envelopes/cancellations may appear larger or smaller than shown.
Aircraft Stamps
With the exception of some less known Junkers aircraft, nearly all famous Junkers types are to be found on stamps. The stamps can be categorized into
Early Stamps, used during the operation of the aircraft (mostly airmail stamps of their time)
Commemorative Stamps, issued following WWII until today
which illustrate the efforts of Junkers aircraft types (i.e. settlement of airline networks)
which illustrate the Allies victory over Germany (i.e. WWII commemorative stamps)
Junkers People Stamps
Illustrations of Hugo Junkers are found on several stamps worldwide. Mostly they were issued together with other famous aviation pioneers from Germany. Some stamp were issued on the birthday or date of death of Hugo Junkers. Not all of them were Hugo Junkers illustrations, but instead show Junkers aircraft. Other people from Junkers Flugzeugwerke are currently not known on stamps.
Company Developement and Facilities
I do not know of any stamp, which shows Junkers facilities or which refers directly to the Junkers Flugzeugwerke. Nevertheless there is a good opportunity to document the different Junkers companies and their facilities with company cancellations and freemailers.
Some usefull links
The following links were very usefull, when compiling the Junkers collection. They may also be helpfull in aquiring the stamps for a Junkers collection, even if I do not have any experience with most of the shops:
Motiv-Briefmarkenkatalog Flugzeuge by Walter Kalt
a very usefull worldwide list of aviation stamps, most of them with images.
It's not a shop, just a private online thematic list in German Language
Gerhards Markenseite a lot of Ju52 stamps and collective items are to be found here.
FREESTAMPCATALOGUE is primarly a stamp shop with a worldwide sales list.
It has a good thematic and countrywide search function and a lot of stamps are also illustrated with images. The list just contains stamps, which are on sale by the shop. Nevertheless their stock contains a lot of material.
COOL STAMPS is another philatelic online shop. It is not concentrated on country lists, but on topic lists. Their aviation list contains a lot of Junkers related material, especially issued during the last 10 years. However, sometimes it is difficult to identify the date of issue or the catalogue number of a stamp.
The Westminster Stamp Gallery is another shop with a good aviation topic list and images.
JUST WENDY STAMP - JWT is a shop, which also holds some of the inofficial issuing countries like Lundy or the 1990s Russian countries. Interesting aviation list with a lot of unknown philatelic material.
The AERO Philatelie IAPC has several usefull informations for aviation collectors.
This is a usefull philatelic linklist.
Updated:
30th December 2005
The Hugo Junkers Homepage at http://www.junkers.de.vu
� Horst Zoeller, Germany, December 2005
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