A week or so ago I wrote about the first stamp catalogue… I had some replies from you and some good information. So better late than never, here is some more that you might enjoy reading.

"The first (stamp catalog ) is said to have been published in France by Alfred Potiquet in 1861. In ten pages it claimed to list all the stamps of the world at that time, but it contained no illustrations.

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The year 1862 seems to have been a banner one for stamp catalogs. J. B. Moens of Belgium published one, while in the US A.C. Kline of Philadelphia produced the first catalog in the Western Hemisphere.

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Writing in the Philatelic Magazine of January 1981, British Philatelic editor and writer Kenneth F. Chapman records that, in April 1862, in England, a publication entitled Aids to Stamp Collectors: Being a List of British and Foreign Postage Stamps in Circulation since 1840 by 'A Stamp Collector' appeared.

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It was published by H & C Treacher of Brighton Sussex and the author's name was Fredrick Booty.

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In June of the same year, a Dr. John Edward Gray of the British Museum is reported by Chapman to have begun a series of articles entitled 'The Postage Stamps of the World' in the monthly Young England. This was later published in book form as The Illustrated Catalog of Postage Stamps.

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Another 1862 British catalog was one by Mount Brown that listed some 1,200 stamps.

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The famous catalog of Stanley Gibbons first appeared in 1865 and J. W. Scott published a single page catalog in 1867."

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"This Is Philately", by Ken Wood Vol I "A-F"

Enjoy your stamps…..  Best wishes… Michael