I also don't really know Czechoslovakian stamps, but I really like the stamp designs of a certain period - I am not exactly sure, but it could be about the 50s and 60s. Thanks for showing us the stamps, Sleuth.

While I don’t collect stamps from Czechoslovakia, I find your overview very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 🙏🏻

Thanks for the video! Czechoslovakia had some great, beautifully engraved, colorful postage stamps - a real shame so many are CTO.... Just a bit of trivia - several of the early CZ. stamps were designed by Alfons Mucha, a great Art Deco artist. In my 2022 Scotts, "Czech Republic" follows the Czech. section in the volume with "Cz"..... Slovakia in volume with "Sl"....

I like Czechoslovakia stamps, the designs are nice and the illustrations can be entertaining. I am glad that Czechia and Slovakia continued the design language. There are a lot of interesting used varieties in the early issues from towns that continued to use old Austro-Hungarian cancellations for a bit.

The first stamps of Czechoslovakia were designed by the famous artist Alfons Mucha. I love his art. There are others but any Czech stamp that say Doplatit ot Doplatne are Postage Due stamps. When I first started collecting stamps I bought a lot of country packets. All the sets were missing the high values. I did not think anything about that as I assumed that I could just pick those up later. Unfortunately I was new and did not realize that nobody would have just the high values and that I would have to buy the whole set again to get them. I also remember buying a year set- all the stamps issued by Russia in 1964. After putting them in my album, I was so proud to have all these pages completely full. I did not learn until much later that they were all CTO's and being a kid collector I did not know what they were. I loved space stamps when I was a kid (we had not landed on the moon yet) and Czechoslovakia had a lot of space stamps. The stamp with the leaves are Linden leaves which is the National Tree of Czechoslovakia. Please recheck your catalogue as the Ceska Republic does continue after Czerchoslovakia starting in the 90's.

In Scott's, Czech Republic simply continues the Czechoslovakia section, while inexplicably keeping "Czechoslovakia" as the page header. Also, Slovakia picks up in it's own section from where it left off in 1944. The Czech section starts in 1993 with stamps #2877. Incidentally, I'm still trying to figure out how Scott's catalogue decides the country headings. For example... Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso in 1984 - Stamps listed as Burkina Faso Burma becomes Myanmar is 1990 - Stamps listed as Burma Czechoslovakia becomes Czech Republic in 1993 - Stamps listed as Czechoslovakia Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka in 1972 - Stamps split under each name so you have to buy two different volumes if that's what you collect.

Czechoslovakia had very nice stamps, very often engraved, which I really appreciate. Unfortunately, they are often undervalued by collectors due to their high circulation numbers during the communist era and the mass production of CTOs.

I don't see any point in spending even this much time looking through a collection like this. Only a few stamps from Czechoslovakia have high value, including a few early airmails, a few semis, and a very small number of other stamps. The vast majority of Czech stamps, all issued in the 20th century after all, don't have much value. Look for those high value stamps in the collection, and you can ignore all the others. Turning the pages, that should take almost no time to do. I didn't see any of these stamps, so as someone who has a Czech collection, I can say this collection is somewhat of a beginner's collection and is worth very little. The only other possible value might be if the collector had an enormous number of the common stamps in very good condition year after year. Some collectors would like that to fill many empty spaces in their album especially if many were MNH. Since it's quickly obvious that neither of these applies to this collection, it's just not worth much. This should take any experienced stamp person just a few moments to determine. If you aren't sure about a country just browse the catalogue for a few minutes and look for the higher value stamps -- usually in a country's early years. Then look for those stamps in the collection. Also, if I can say this, it made me very uncomfortable to see you running your hands over the pages as you were. I realize they're in plastic page holders, so no damage, but if you got into that habit, with a different collection you could do some real damage -- and you'd make that collector very upset.