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However, it listed all of the 973 postage stamps known to the bookseller which had been issued around the world up to then. Because Berger-Levrault was the first to make such a list, errors had crept in. It was used by Alfred Potiquet as a template for the first illustrated stamp catalogue issued in December 1861.
Cover of the 1868 Scott catalogue covering the first 28 years of stamps; "America and Foreign" Catalogs from the Michel range First original American stamp catalog. A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types with descriptions and prices. The stamp catalog is an essential tool of philately and stamp collecting.
Also, in 1868, he issued his first multi-paged postage stamp catalog, A Descriptive Catalogue of America and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date. In a short period of time, his Scott catalog became the leading stamp catalog in the United States. In 1885, he sold the rights to his business to the Calman brothers who renamed it the ...
The first in the United States was The Stamp Collector's Manual by A.C. Kline (a pseudonym for John William Kline), also 1862. [4] Some catalogues, like the Michel catalogue and various one-country catalogues, offer a great deal of information going beyond the basic properties of each stamp type.
The 1861 first edition is held by the Royal Philatelic Society London. [2] Alfred Potiquet developed his catalogue on the basis of the postage stamp and postal stationery register of the Strasbourg bookseller, Oscar Berger-Levrault. In fact, that register is referred to as the world's first stamp catalogue, although it was not intended for the ...
Richard Zimmermann Catalog (The joint stamp issues catalog) Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (Worldwide airmail stamps; last full catalog, 1966; partial, 1972) The South African stamp colour catalogue (South Africa) Zonnebloem (stamp catalogue) (Netherlands, Indonesia, Israel, Surinam, United Europe)
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Cover of the first Scott catalog, 1868. The first Scott catalogue was a 21-page pamphlet with the title Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date, Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety.