Canadian Specialized Catalogues

I was just doing some philatelic housecleaning when I came across some Canadian catalogues from the seventies and eighties.

Any one remember The Lyman Standard Catalogue ? I used to look forward to every new edition and wow this 1984 one was even in colour.

I remember the Lyman Catalogue very well and used to buy them as they were published.

If I remember correctly, that catalogue also listed used officials and postage dues in blocks of 4 (?). Some of the earlier editions were pocket sized.

Sure brings back memories.

Chimo

Bujutsu

How about the Canada Specialized Postage Stamp Catalogue?
I really like that one.



We had some major inflation here in the early 1980s, the price
of the catalogue tripled.

The publishers did not want to pay a licensing fee to use
Scott numbers so they went ahead with what they called
the Canadian Numbering System which didn't last.

While we are on the topic of old Canadian catalogues, does anyone remmber the Roy Wrigley Catalogue on official stamps?

The catalogue also had a small section on the "Black-out"
canellations as well.

I have scanned both the front and back covers of the copy I have.

Chimo

Bujutsu

No Bujutsu, I've never heard of that one.

What year did that one come out?

Yes Litho, I had those two as well.

Here is another edition of the Wrigley's Catalogue. The back cover of this catalogue was just blank.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Interesting topic.

Back in 1970, Glenn F. Hansem created the first Canadian specialiuzed catalogue and he published 2 editions. The second edition was published in 1973.

A lot of philatelists back then thought he had a good chance to start a true Canadian version of a specialized catalogue to be published every so often, however, it was Unitrade that would take over.

I scanned both the fromt and back covers of both editions.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Hi litho

Unfortunately, I cannot find a year in the book at all. I tried to find one to include in my last posting about them.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I have heard of the Glenn Hansen catalogues, never bought one
but got them from the library.

It is odd that Unitrade succeeded where so many great Canadian
Philatelist failed.
I still have the 1993 Unitrade and I wasn't really impressed.
From the mid 1990s on my favourite Canadian specialized was the
Darnell Stamps of Canada, especially the varieties & EFO'S
section.

Of course when Unitrade got Harris to edit the new format 2006 version
that settled it, since it's the best Canadian specialized catalogue ever
and probably compares favourably with other countries' spec catalogs.

I have Hansen's 2nd edition and still refer to it from time to time. The back of the book" squared circle section of my 1991 "Scott Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps" is based on Hansen and Moffat's 485 page treatise "The Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada".

I have about 10 years of the "Canada Specialized Postage Stamp Catalogue". I had more but every once in a while I hear a refrain in my head that sounds like "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" and I throw something out. The authors, Maresch and Leggett, are certainly household names for stamp old-timers.

I also had dozens of Canada Specialized Postage Stamp Catalogue,
Lymans and others but almost all I either gave away or threw out.
And every time we moved I got rid of stuff too, some of which
I wish I had kept.
But you can't keep everything unless you want
to turn into a packrat, sorry I wan't to be politically correct..hoarder. Don't want to offend rats

These days you should be able to scan most of the material for electronic storage if you must get rid of the actual catalogues themselves. I just bought a 500GB portable storage device for under $38 that will hold more catalogs than I will probably ever need -- and for those technical folk, there are 1TB and 2TB drives that would double or even quadruple that!

Scanning catalogues is easier than one might think, especially if you have access to a duplex scanner with a document feeder.

Most any print shop can slice off the binding in one quick cut, leaving the pages ready for easy scanning.

I learned the hard way that you may not want to tell the print shop that you plan on scanning the book, as I ran into a misguided employee who thought he was tasked with saving the world from copyright violation. (Making a copy of a book I own doesn't keep me awake at night...I believe it is a fair use.)

I attempted a quick excavation through my continually growing unorganized pile of catalogues (I have as much fun collecting catalogues as I do collecting stamps). I remember finding an edition of a Canadian catalogue from around 1979 or 1980 by a pair of authors, can't remember the names, but it was a catalogue I had never heard of until a couple of years ago when I found this copy, even though this was something like the 9th edition of their catalogue. (No, not the Maresch & Leggett work.) And it's buried so deep I can't find the thing.

But I did find my 1934 copy of Fred Jarrett's catalogue!

Ryan

Some nice interesting postings in here that bring back memories. I stated in a earlier posting that Glenn Hansem tried to pioneer a Canadian specialized catalogue but one that was out even before his was the Holmes Specialized Catalogue and it even listed revenue stamps plus had colonial cancellations, the whole bit. For several years this catalogue was published but I am not sure what the earliest and latest dates were.

I tried to scan the centre of the book, but, no matter how I tried to resize it, it was too large in the posting. It was an orange colour cloth bound book. The title was on the spine only and the front and back covers of the book were blank.

Chimo

Bujutsu

This Canada / BNA Catalogue was another one of many that apperaed in the 1970s.
It was wasn't really what I would call specialized but I bought it
anyway.