Stamp of belgium and guinness world records on march 10, 2014, the postal service of belgium issued a postage stamp showing a portrait of a woman. Hugo michel subsequently sold the rights to his catalogue to the stamp album publishers schwaneberger verlag, who still retain them. The release of the stamps was dedicated to international womens day. Sep 01, 2005 the world encyclopedia of stamps and stamp collecting. This 2 dvdrom set contains 33,000 pages, in full color, with stamp images, that are not included.
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More recently, the index to current philatelic literature, sponsored by the national philatelic society, appeared in the stamp lover beginning in 1950 and covered world wide journals published to 1976. This edition includes over 2,500 newly listed stamps. Listings for austria through b countries of the world can be found in volume 1b. We enjoy close relationships with the most important stamp collectors as well as an extraordinary track record reflected in a number of philatelic world. I really doubt if scott, stanley gibbons, michel publishing and most of all ebay are going to make fuss about pirated outdated catalogs in pdf or jpeg format. The world stamp identifer is a free, interactive tool which helps you identify many of the harder to recognize stamps. The penny black 3,000 issued in the united kingdom in may 1840, the penny black was the first adhesive stamp in the world, which is why this stamp is considered so valuable. Some pictures of the postage stamps do not match the actual size of the stamps.
On october 15, 1940, a set of 8 pictorial stamps were released. Freestampcatalogue fsc is a world stamp catalogue free for everyone to use. The basic catalogue now occupies volumes covering the stamps of all countries despite its vast increase in size its basic structure has never been altered. From its humble beginning as a 24page bound pamphlet, the multi. The stamps of the world simplified catalogue lists commemoratives, definitives, airmails, postage dues, official stamps and miniature sheets.
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