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Stamp catalogs seize, evaluate, nummerieren and describe all published stamps of a certain country and/or an area. They belong to the most important documents of a Philatelisten.
The first stamp catalogs developed in the year 1861. In France the Strassburger bookseller OSCAR Berger Levrault published a stamp and a complete thing listing under the title "description that on 17 September 1861 up to now admitted stamps". This first Briefmarkenkataklog of the world possessed however still no illustrations and contained some errors. It registered however all 973 up to then published Postwertzeichen of the world, which admits to the bookseller was. The stamp catalog of OSCAR Berger Levrault was not intended for the public and only in an edition from 40 to 50 pieces for its friends was manufactured. One of these copies is today in the possession of the British museum in London.
Also the French civil servant Alfred Potiquet came into the possession of a stamp catalog of OSCAR Berger Levrault. It decided to revise this. Alfred Potiquet added missing issues of stamps, as far as it admits to him was, and pictures and improved numerous errors of OSCAR Berger Levrault. The revised version appeared finally in December 1861 in Paris under the title to "Catalogue timbres poste dans les various you globe". In it already 1080 stamps and 132 complete things were taken up. Some errors had however still in-crept.
Parallel to this emergence of the stamp catalog in France likewise 1861 the first stamp catalogs developed in England. The zoologist John Edward Gray, which called itself gladly as the first Philatelisten of the world, published the "hand Catalogue OF in the year 1861 pos days Stamps". Here it concerned similarly as with OSCAR Berger Levrault a list without pictures of all Postwertzeichen of the world.
After the first stamp catalogs in France and England appeared, it came to a rapid spreading and to the expenditure of numerous new catalogs. Already soon listing of all stamps of the world was no longer possible in a work. It took place an allocation into individual assembly areas, which were divided often again into individual volumes. This made possible individual publishing houses to specialize and this evaluate more exactly in or two countries. In this way the first special catalogs developed.
Nowadays there are already on-line catalogs in the Internet. Such for example the company offers Michel liable to pay the costs. Stamp catalogs on CD-ROM are manufactured likewise ever more frequently and sold.
Standard catalogs are stamp catalogs, which register only the stamps of individual countries or also several countries in simplified form. These are to provide for the beginner into the Philatelie an overview of its assembly area. Most characteristics of the registered expenditures are not mentioned. These catalogs are sold usually clearly more cheaply than special catalogs. In former times one found frequently the name youth catalog for these catalogs. With the standard catalog it concerns the oldest kind of stamp catalog of the world.
Most publishers of stamp catalogs publish this kind of catalog beside their special catalogs. Some publishing houses, like e.g. the Schwaneberger publishing house, publisher of the Michel catalog, specialized however in the expenditures of standard catalogs of numerous countries, in order to address so as large a clientele as possible.
Special catalogs concern themselves, differently than standard catalogs, more near with the issues of stamps of a certain assembly area. Particularly consideration for modifications, lack of pressure, colordifferentiate, taken retouchings, type differences and the like. Due to in such a way developing large extent of the catalogs these are often divided into several volumes. Special catalogs do not only have to concern themselves with issues of stamps of individual countries. Likewise catalogs for the postmarks of a certain area or other special areas exist like the Zeppelinpost.
Special catalogs are manufactured by numerous enterprises. Usually this, contrary to standard catalogs, happens only for a small number of assembly areas. They appear usually annually. Particularly extensive special catalogs, manuals so mentioned, appear however usually only in larger distances or only once.
The motive catalog is the most modern kind stamp catalogs. It registers all stamps with a certain motive, for example railways, the whole world. This does not have to do however with the original stamp catalogs for the Philatelisten any longer much. Some publishers, like Domfil, specialized in this kind of stamp catalogs.
In stamp catalogs all appearing stamps of a country are sequentially nummeriert, so that one speaks of the "catalog number" of a stamp. This is evaluated thereby in all preservation stages (post office-freshly, folded, marked, on piece of letter as well as on letter). With some stamps, particularly with older, an additional organization (as far as possible) takes place after different types, and the like.
For most stamp catalogs the indicated prices indicate the among themselves and are as exchange prices to regard. The material en and/or purchase price is - depending upon popularity of the assembly area - the often far under prices set in the stamp catalog. This is often problematic, since these from expenditure to expenditure can vary. Some stamps are acted over the Katalogpreis. Without a larger revision of the quotations by most catalog publishing houses however one does, in order to avoid speculations.
Appearing annual stamp catalogs, like manuals, do not indicate usually no direct price evaluation. They use a point system, with which one can compare the rarity of different pieces of collecting tank with one another. This meets with large approval with many Philatelisten, since this system makes possible for the collecting tank better to express the value of its collection (in points). Owing to this point system have for example the stamp catalogs of Edwin Mueller from the 1920er and 1930er years still validity.
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