Your Library

They say every collector should have a decent library on his chosen hobby, but what is the oldest stamp catalog in your inventory.

Mine currently is a 1936 Scott standard in pristine condition..

The oldest catalog I have is Rotnem, Standard Precancel Stamp Catalog, 1928
Oldest Scott 1933!

Also note that many of the Scott catalog prior to 1940 are on-line and can be accessed through a simple Google search of books. This makes a "virtual library" of these catalogs available to almost anyone who has the interest and time to review/download the desired data.

Been collecting that long eh?

1903 and no I did not buy it new.

Hmmm. In 1903, Scott was located at 18 East 23rd Street, NYC. In 2011, Bonobo's Vegetarian Restauarant occupies that spot, which is right at Madison Avenue and overlooking Madison Square Park:

http://www.bonobosrestaurant.com/main.html

Hey smauggie , I started on my 6 b-day!

I have a 1963 Scott Catalogue

1943 US Specialized.....bought for $5 at our monthly Nashville Philatelic Society auction....

"Descriptive Price Catalogue of the Postage Stamps and Postal Cards of All Nations. Sixth Edition. Revised, Enlarged and Illustrated. L.W. Durbin, Foreign Stamp Importer, Fifth and Library Streets, Philadelphia. 1879." One entertaining tidbit to this catalogue is the credit for Bavis & Pennypacker, Steam Power Printers. Imagine what a contraption a steam-powered printing press must have been.

My oldest Scott is an 1894. I can't claim to have any particular use for this stuff, but it's just as much fun collecting catalogues as it is collecting stamps ...

That 1904 SG Part 1 posted by Tony must have been a bestseller - I have a copy as well!

Ryan

'Gebrüder Senfs illustrierter Postwertzeichen-Katalog', Leipzig 1914.
inherited.

It's in poor condition and a little out of date but I still use it on occasion. (Mice type is getting harder to read!)

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