wakeybluenose
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Post by wakeybluenose on Nov 22, 2021 11:49:06 GMT
I'm having issues with Stanley Gibbons cataloguing of early Latvia, the numbers seem to be all over the place, the generally accepted 1st issues aren't listed 1st! For the initial definitive set they have not differentiated between perf or imperf, watermarks or paper types! Can anyone post the first page of Latvia from a Scott Catalogue (or any other major catalogue) please so I can see what my options are. This is what Simplified Gibbons has to offer:  Many thanks in advance Kevin in London |
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Post by khj on Nov 22, 2021 20:00:01 GMT
The SG Stamps of the World will primarily list only the face-different stamps. You probably need to get SG regional catalogs to get the coverage you want (that one, I don't have yet). Here's a quick cellphone pic from 2018 Scott (sorry it's not well-focused):  |
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Post by khj on Nov 22, 2021 20:08:28 GMT
Again, sorry for the poor quality. I had to do a screenshot for this Michel 2010 Europe v5:  |
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Post by khj on Nov 22, 2021 20:13:36 GMT
Y&T 2003v4  |
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 22, 2021 20:28:39 GMT
LATVIA snippet 2021 Scott Specialized Cat  |
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wakeybluenose
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Post by wakeybluenose on Nov 23, 2021 0:48:27 GMT
Khj and René, thank you both for your time and scans... I will have a deeper look at these tomorrow at work... But already I can see that all of them are superior to my SG... Maybe time to invest in an alternative catalogue!
Kevin in London
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 23, 2021 11:42:40 GMT
Gibbons Simplified is what it says it is.................."SIMPLIFIED!" and as such it is not a very useful catalogue for older stamps of Europe
it does not take account of watermark or perf Differences and if a particular design has three varieties, it only lists the cheapest basic type.
In the past They produced a much more detailed Hardback listing but my edition is 1971 ! Price wise it is skewed but it does go into detail and makes sense of the numbers used in the modern catalogue
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Post by cursus on Nov 25, 2021 12:33:05 GMT
S&G 1944:
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wakeybluenose
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Post by wakeybluenose on Nov 25, 2021 13:22:21 GMT
Thanks for posting this cursus ... very interesting - but makes their current catalogue even more confusing, looks like they completely renumbered between then and now! |
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Post by khj on Nov 25, 2021 16:28:32 GMT
While not common at all, a complete overhaul of the numbering system does occur at one or more points in the catalog history of the major catalog publishers. For the Scott catalog, the last major re-numbering of the entire catalog was in 1940, when they added the pre-fixes and moved all the semipostals, airmails, special deliveries... out of the main section and into what is now nicknamed the "Back of the Book" section for each country.
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Post by daniel on Nov 25, 2021 23:39:12 GMT
I'm having issues with Stanley Gibbons cataloguing of early Latvia, the numbers seem to be all over the place, the generally accepted 1st issues aren't listed 1st! For the initial definitive set they have not differentiated between perf or imperf, watermarks or paper types! Can anyone post the first page of Latvia from a Scott Catalogue (or any other major catalogue) please so I can see what my options are. This is what Simplified Gibbons has to offer: Many thanks in advance Kevin in London I have some of these early issues. My interest being in the bits of maps and banknotes on the reverse of some of the stamps. Lumping the 1918 and 1919 Coat of Arms stamps together and stating that they were all printed on map paper isn't simplifying, it's just plain wrong. Only the 5 Kap red was printed on the reverse of maps. My 2008 edition of SG Stamps of the World is also wrong in this respect. |
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Post by kosmo on Nov 30, 2021 16:46:46 GMT
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Post by kosmo on Nov 30, 2021 16:47:24 GMT
Solovyov 's Russian Catalog
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