Stamp Catalogues to help stamp collectors.
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- čas přidán 17. 11. 2022
- Andy and Vincent discuss stamp catalogues, one of the most commonly utilized tools to help collectors structure and value their collections. They discuss different publishers and try to give an overview of this wide field. We hope you enjoy this! www.sandafayre.com - we sell stamps and stamp collections through our weekly stamp auctions; we also offer free stamp collecting resources to help you with your philately!
Yes. I can’t imagine how much time and research goes into the making of those catalogs. They are essential to the collectors. Great video!
I would also like to add to your Comprehensive catalogue mix that of John Barefoot for those who collect Revenue stamps which have been on the rise for a few years now and I personally think are a very important part of Philately and Postal history.
Thanks for the video guys always enjoy these, as they are very few experienced ones on CZcams nowadays.
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I am a member of China Stamp Society (CSS), based in the USA, as well as the China Philatelic Society of London (CPSL). Earlier this year CSS published the latest edition of their own catalogue of Chinese stamps. I suspect that it is very good. I believe the first CSS catalogue was based on the old Ma catalogue, but has been developed further by CSS members research (and, like other catalogues, research done by other collectors and other catalogues!). Not only is it fairly expensive, but shipping to the UK from the States is also very expensive - and getting more so every few months, it seems. I wonder, if I can find enough people who want a copy, maybe I could find some way to ship in bulk for much less per copy? Is it something you may invest in?
Hello Andy, yes it is probably something we would want for our extensive library also
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Can you specify which stamps you buy exactly to find to sale to you I have many albums ta sale .on secure which stamps or countries you buy.
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Hi....I have stamps nearly 2500 out of which 1000 are 50years ago and more of it are 70 - 80 years ago... 1902- 1947 stamp collection I have......how to contact you ...for it auction....
Hello! Please contact selling@sandafayre.com and send us a few pictures from your phone.
Intriuging and useful commentary, thank you. However, too little about digital catalogs and how they offer certain unique features. Most obvious is fast searches for any sort of data and now some have made this possible across all countries at once. You mention looking for images and the technology is now available (IE, Google Image Search, aka 'Lens') where you can quickly search for like images. Think of this in everyday use: Locating or identifying a stamp by design could mean simply snapping a photograph (or scanning) the image, then dropping that image into the search window. Certainly this will be a huge time-saver, compared to flipping paper books. It would help if you might refer us to any fellow professionals you might be aware of that use digital catalogs, since this video is not inclusive that way. But I learned a lot, such as some basic & ingrained differences between S.G. and Scott. Good work!
Hi Alex. Over the years we've been sent catalogues on disk which we've found impossible to use but we can't find any catalogue with prices online with the features you've mentioned. I love reading ebooks where the information is consumed in a linear way but with philatelic reference books (for instance) you are often not quite sure what you are exactly looking for, so you might find yourself randomly flipping pages looking for something that looks a little like the thing you have, or think you have. On the catalogues / price guide side we are usually presented with collections which are not laid out in the same format as the catalogue, so the printed paper catalogues are nicely open to the use of old- school solutions such as post-it notes, folded corners and the quick flipping between pages in different parts of the catalogue to compare illustrations and other things. Also we often find ourselves in situations where desks and worktops are unavailable and might have 5 different catalogues on the floor or balanced on knees, often these catalogues get piled on top of each other because of limited space. These are very commercial concerns which might not effect the collector of one country in his stamp room but I guess catalogue solutions may be partly driven by 'the trade'. The other issue might be that collectors love tangible things, we collect paper and tend to love books and magazines, so there may be a philatelic culture issue which means the potential consumers of such technology are limited. I suppose the best indicator is the market, attempts at online catalogues have not gotten traction despite the supposed benefits to those producing them. I think we may have more to run here, recent AI chatbot applications such as ChatGBT may change the potential again for the technology again it terms of catalogues. On the refernce books a good 80% of the philatelic information in our extensive library is not available online having been published in obscure books during the pre Internet era! I hope this helps.
@@StampAuctions Thanks so much for your thorough, and yes, quite helpful, reply. Although I understand (from a mere collector's viewpoint, not a dealer), I'm also sensing a familiar 'paper bias' -- Now retired from decades in computer support and consulting. In my work it was clear that many of us possess a resistance to technology in favor of, as you say, "old-school". In my tiny slice of reality, I do everything possible on my mac (formerly on Windows PCs)... but I still have a handy pad of Post-It notes in front of me. Only recently have I begun tucking equivalent "E-note-lettes" on my desktop screen and noting my own stubbornness around that. But they're "green" (no paper wasted), easy to edit and to arrange in front of you, quickly hidden if you wish... unlike that 'analog' mess of paper notes scattered about.
Yes, change is oft self-inhibited, even among the tech-savvy. That's not to say the page-flipping method is obsolete, any more than eBooks in general are superior to their physical counterparts. Some of that, I think, springs from the pure physical form vs. the mysteriousness of silicon bits/bytes -- humans like to touch & hold. Please do not presume that a non-professional or one-country philatelist doesn't rifle through catalogs, often back/forth willy nilly! I certainly do, be it paper or digital. What has crimped going fully digital, for me, is the cost. But that includes the source doing real-time updating -- an obvious advantage to online media. With a conscientious publication that it kept up-to-date, you're always accessing the latest information and of course, fresh as possible valuation data.
Alas these decisions may amount to nothing more than sticking with what works, what is most familiar and requires no mental "updates" that many so-clled tech "solutions" often demand -- simply put: we learn a way of things and like to stick to it. Yet for many, resistance is futile (LOL). Research is one thing, especially for your purposes, but quick/easy recovery of basic information is what I usually seek. Even for "going deep" I enjoy finding new ways to do that... but then, I have free time and am NOT operating a business! I suppose this permits me to dabble, if not to dive in, often perusing online talk forums, to pick the brains of others who are doing the same. "One day" not far off, you'll be able to speak your search criteria quite simply and the AI will be "good enough" to be useful. Until then......
I don't know why they don't stop issuing every so often these 'book' catalogues, and make a loose leaf catalogue which could be easily updated and etc. What do you think.? They can edit add etc and issue a sheet or 2
Hi Roger. To my knowledge there are very few loose-leaf catalogues with price guides still being published, the New Zealand CP catalogue still uses this system but the Australian Brusden White catalogues have now moved to a book format. Here we tend to find the loose-leaf formats difficult to use as turning pages is more tricky and they get damaged more easily, but this is a commercial environment and a collector would undoubtedly create less wear and tear. The reality is that the work involved in updating and managing supplements (where you are forced to interact directly with clients and maintain a legally sound mailing list rather than simply distributing your book to a wholesaler) is as much as reprinting an entire book but you will raise less money doing so! I suspect economics is the reason behind it.
Historically, Scott Catalogue, has undervalued British Commonwealth. Somewhat the opposite for European. So in the US, collectors must pay, a higher % of Scott for B.C. than for Europe and Scandinavia. There are always exceptions but this is a general rule. Gibbons is much more accurate on B.C.
Agreed. We tend to like SG listings even on the European stamps, as Gibbons often helpfully give the name / subject of the issue and the date of issue when other catalogues don't bother and simply rely on pictures. We agree with your generalization on prices, so we tend to use SG to help us describe European stamps but rely on Michel or Scott for pricing as, as you say, SG is often too high on European. For Scandinavia we will also look at FACIT as well as Michel to help with prices. For Commonwealth there really is no catalogue other than SG, in our opinion!
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Stamp catalogs and magazines, too, for that matter. Why are the paper versions and the very few online or digital versions, so close in price? Digital are just as easy to use. Your reasoning for paper in this video, is just because that is what you are used to. With online, or digital catalogs, you do not have printer costs, shipping costs, digital is more easily updated. Scott does not lay out the catalogs on old style grid sheets. They lay it out on a computer.
You said that you mark where you were at with tweezers, paperclips, or pencils. In the digital version, that would be a hyperlink. One click and you just moved 10 or 20 pages!
I would love a subscription to Lynn's or SG. (The SG magazine is vastly superior in my opinion. ) But who can afford it? A paper subscription is 13q every 3 months. Digital and print is 11. (Which makes NO sense at all.) Last I checked, they don't offer digital only! Yet cover is 6q. Here in the states, cover is $13!!!! All of these outlets need to offer digital. The price could be cut by 2/3rds and still be profitable! Catalogs only in a language you can't read? Google translate! Finally, with digital, this entire video would have been very different. Nothing to slide over and get a picture of, just show the digital page. Also, no discussion about who is carrying the 60 lbs of books back up the steps. You can just put them all in your pocket just like going to someone's house to do an appraisal......
The world is now shifting into electronic catalogues... which are much easier to use.. search and find... some have very basic AI vision functionality..
Indeed, but when dealing in all world stamps it is much easier to have the physical catalogues to flick between pages, though agree an electronic version is great if you only collect one country or area
why not issue these in A4 loose leaf sheets which could easily be edited or updated. What do you think?