Belgium Scott Number Changes

Years back I used my old 1975 Scott Standard Catalogue to number my Belgium stamps. I recently took a Scott 2011 out of the library and discovered that some major changes have been made with respect to the numbers for this country. Can someone direct me to a description of just what changes took place (i.e., what years and numbers were involved)?

I remember that. It was a major pain in the you know what. A major renumbering of Belgium occurred between the 1987 and 1988 catalog years. Here is the summary from the 1988 catalog, volume 2. The front matter in the catalog did not explain why the changes were made.



Regards, Robert

Trainwreck(Robert): WOW! Thanks for having done that. This is a complete shock for me. The old saying that "ignorance is bliss" sure seems to fit me. It looks like I have some work cut out for me. Will probably "chew my cud" (procrastinate) about this for a few days and then get at it.

It drives me nuts when the editors of Scott start too change numbers.
The garbles up my placement of stamps in my albums. I don't re-arrange them but just take a deep breath and decide where to put them.

Chimo

Bujutsu

What really surprises me is the fact that the editors can decide to delete catalogue entries. All of a sudden certain stamps do not exist anymore! And why?

I believe that Scott prefers to group sets together: definitives that are issued over a number of years need to be in one listing, even when there is 10 years between them. Michel does not do that anymore (only classic stamps are still grouped like that).

I agree with you Jan-Simon

There is a 50 cent Ontario Law stamp that I have in my revenue collection that used to be listed in the major Canadian revenue stamp catalogues that has a "C" overprint in blue. Then all of a sudden it was not listed at all.

However, there is now a minor listing included in the set in the Van Dam catalogue for NH status etc., but, it is quite vague. It does not state the face value, or if it is known on the entire set with the same overprint?

Chimo

Bujutsu

If I was just a bit more cynical, I'd think the main (sole?) reason Scott does this is to require you to buy another catalog. Why else would you need to buy an catalog in 2013 to study a collection ending in 1940, when you already had, say, a 1980 catalog.

Wait a minute. I am that cynical. Oh well, let them change all they want. MY catalog has stamps numbered, I can live with it as is.

I know that there are thousands of you out there wanting some closure on this so here it is: I have made the A-to-C corrections in my old catalogue. I did it with a red pen and my old black, biblical-looking, catalogue looks like a mess of raw_hamburger. Now to the stamps themselves....