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Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
Borek (World catalogue) Colnect (online only) [6] Find Your Stamps Value (online only) (specializing in US, GB, and other stamps) [7] Freestampcatalogue; Inoubli (Tunisia) Richard Zimmermann Catalog (The joint stamp issues catalog) Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (Worldwide airmail stamps; last full catalog, 1966; partial, 1972)
Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (16 October 1834 – 11 January 1920) was a Welsh entrepreneur who formed the first mail order business, revolutionising how products were sold. . Creating the first mail order catalogues in 1861 – which consisted of woollen goods – for the first time customers could order by post, and the goods were delivered by
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. Stamp catalogs are part of philatelic literature. Similar catalogs of other collectible objects. such as matchboxes and postcards , have also been issued.
The range includes the following catalogues: Simplified Catalogues. Stamps of the World. (An annual catalogue, first published in 1934, now in six volumes listing stamps from every country in the world.) and its regional subsets: Africa, 1st edition (2010) Asia Volume 1, 1st edition (2010) Commonwealth, 5th edition (2013)
Catalogues spread to British America, where Benjamin Franklin is believed to have been the first cataloguer. In 1744 he produced a catalogue of scientific and academic books. [2] In 1833, Antonio Fattorini started a mail order watch club in Bradford, which would eventually transform into Empire Stores. [3]
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New levels of disposable income as part of a "post-war" boom led to increased levels of consumerism and Freemans capitalised on this by producing a fully colourised 1000-page catalogue that was distributed by mail and featured a much wider range of products.