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Lipsia (until 1990), only stamp catalog of the DDR. (Editor: Verlag Transpress Leipzig, DDR) MacDonnell Whyte (Stamps of Ireland Specialised Catalogue) Magyar Posta és Illetékbélyeg Katalógus (Hungary) Maury (France), A specialized catalog of France formed from the combination of Cérès and Dallay; Michel catalog (Germany)
The first stamp catalog was published in France by Oscar Berger-Levrault on 17 September 1861 and the first illustrated catalog by Alfred Potiquet in December 1861 (based on the earlier work). The first catalogs in Great Britain were published in 1862 by Frederick Booty , [ 1 ] Mount Brown , [ 1 ] and Dr. John Edward Gray .
Forbin's Catalogue de Timbres-Fiscaux was the most comprehensive all-world catalogue of revenue stamps produced up to that time and is still regularly referred to by revenue philatelists as no other all-world catalogue has been prepared since Forbin's third edition in 1915.
Cheffer was responsible for 384 stamp designs, 52 of which were for France. [4] His first stamp design, in 1911, was for Iran. [4] In 1940, Cheffer was invited by the French government to design a joint Anglo-French stamp. [9] In 1955, he designed a set of stamps depicting Monaco's Prince Rainier III. [10] Cheffer's series of French postage ...
The first stamps of France were issued on 1 January 1849. [1] They were designed by Jacques-Jean Barre.The medallion depicts the head of goddess Ceres facing left. In 1852 a new series of definitive stamps were issued, retaining the inscription "REPUB FRANC" but replacing Ceres with the head of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
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He discovered stamp collecting thanks to Tellier, a philatelist, who had already added a small philatelic newspaper, L'Écho de la timbrologie, to the papers printed by the company. In 1895, Yvert and Tellier started getting involved in philatelic books. In November 1896 they published a worldwide catalog of stamps and a stamp album. The ...
At the same time, in Bordeaux, where the provisional government fled, the printing of Ceres stamps was authorized from the 5 November 1870 to the 4 March 1871 to supply the post offices of non-occupied France. The stamps were printed in lithography (instead of typography) by Augée-Delile. Because of this choice, stamps differ repetitively from ...