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Stamp Catalogs

This section contains a selection of early catalogs that included US and Confederate stamps and provisionals. This information may be useful to researchers doing work in this early period.

The catalogs before 1870 contained only very basic listings of the general issues and some provisionals. During the 1870’s some catalogs included more comprehensive listings of provisional with illustrations. The best were those by Edward L. Pemberton. In the 1890’s and early 1900’s several catalogs appeared with extensive illustrated listings of provisionals. The best of these is the catalog by Henry Collin and Henry L. Calman.

Many of the catalogs are quite large and only a few pages list Confederates. Currently only the Confederate material in the catalogs are bookmarked. Just click on a topic in the left panel.
 
Some full catalogs are large files and may take some time to load.
 
Unless otherwise noted these catalogs are courtesy of the Crawford Library.

 

  • R. F. Albrecht & Co. (New York)
    • Complete Catalogue of all Postage Stamps and Envelopes of the United States and Confederate States, August 1892
    • Complete Catalogue of all Postage Stamps and Envelopes of the United States and Confederate States, March 1895
    • Complete Catalogue of all Postage Stamps and Envelopes of the United States and Confederate States, January 1896.

  • Batchelder Postage Stamp Co. (St. Louis)
    • Batchelder’s Standard Stamp Catalogue, 1st ed, 1888

  • Berger-Lavrault (Paris)
    • Les Timbres-Poste Catalogue Methodique et Descriptif de Tous Les Timbers-Poste Connus, 1867.

  • Mount Brown (London)
    • Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps, [1st ed], 1862.
    • Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps, 2nd ed, 1862.
    • Catalogue of 1660 Varieties of British, Colonial, & Foreign Postage Stamps, 3rd ed, 1862.
    • Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps, 4th ed, [1863].
    • Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps, 5th ed, 1864.

  • Edward A. Craig (San Francisco)
    • Edward A. Craig’s Descriptive Price Catalog of Postage Stamps, 4th ed, 1870

  • Henry Collin (New York)
    • Price Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 5th ed, 1885.

  • Henry Collin and Henry L. Calman (New York)
    • A Catalogue for Advanced Collectors, Vol 3, [1901].

  • Durbin & Hanes (Philadelphia)
    • Descriptive Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of All Nations, 18th ed, 1891.

  • Doctor John E. Gray (London)
    • A Hand Catalogue of Postage Stamps, [1st ed], 1862.
    • A Hand Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 2nd ed, 1863.
    • The Illustrated Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 4th ed, 1866.
    • The Illustrated Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 5th ed, 1870.
    • The Illustrated Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 6th ed, 1875.

  • Henry Gremmel (New York)
    • Henry Gremmel’s Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the Western Hemisphere, [1893].
    • United States Comprehensive Catalogue, 1896.

  • J. T. Handford (New York)
    • Illustrated Postage Stamp Catalogue, 1882.

  • E. A. Holton (Boston)
    • Standard Catalog: Postage and Revenue Stamps, 21st ed, [1891]

  • A. C. Kline (Philadelphia)
    • Stamp Collector’s Manual, [1st ed], 1862.
    • Stamp Collector’s Manual, 2nd ed, 1863.
    • Stamp Collector’s Manual, 3rd ed, 1865.
    • Stamp Collector’s Manual and Price Catalogue, [1868].

  • Arthur Maury (Paris)
    • Catalogue Descriptif de tous les Timbres-Poste Crees de 1840 a 1870.

  • C. H. Mekeel (St. Louis)
    • C. H. Mekeel’s Descriptive Price Catalog of American Postage Stamps, [1st ed], 1889.
    • C. H. Mekeel’s Descriptive Priced Catalogue of American Postage Stamps, 2nd ed, 1891.
    • C. H. Mekeel’s Descriptive Priced Catalogue of American Postage Stamps, 4th ed, [1892-93].
    • Mekeel’s Complete Stamp Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of the World, 1894.
    • The International Postage Stamp Catalog, 1897 ed., 1897.

  • J. B. Moens (Brussels)
    • Catalogue Prix-Courant de Timbres-Poste, 1868.
    • Catalogue Prix-Courant de Timbres-Poste, 5th ed, 1877.
    • Catalogue Prix-Courant de Timbres-Poste, 6th ed, 1882.

  • Edward L. Pemberton (Dawlish and Plymouth, England)
    • The Stamp Collector’s Handbook, 1874.

  • Edward L. Pemberton (Southampton and London, England)
    • The Stamp Collector’s Handbook, 2nd ed, 1878.

  • J. W. Scott & Co. (New York)
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [13th ed], June 1868.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [16th ed], September 1868.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [17th ed], June 1869.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [18th ed], March 1870.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [19th ed], May 1870.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [20th ed], July 1870.
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [21st ed], November [1870].
    • Descriptive Price List of Used & Unused Postage Stamps, [23th ed], November 1871.
    • Descriptive Price Catalog of the Postage Stamps of All Nations, 24th ed, [1872].
    • The Postage Stamp Catalogue, 34th ed, [1877].
    • Scott’s Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, 60th ed, 1901.

  • N. F. Seebeck (New York)
    • Illustrated Postage Stamp Catalogue, 1882.

  • Sever & Francis (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    • Catalogue of Postage Stamps, American and Foreign, 1863.

  • E. B. Sterling (Trenton, New Jersey)
    • Sterling’s Standard Descriptive and Price Catalogue of the Adhesive Postage Stamps and Envelopes, 5th ed, 1886.
    • Sterling’s Standard Descriptive and Price Catalogue of the Adhesive Postage Stamps and Envelopes, 6th ed, 1887.

  • F. Trifet (Boston)
    • Price List of Foreign Postage Stamps, [1st ed], [1866]
    • A Descriptive Price LIst and Catalogue of Postage Stamps, [2nd ed], May 1867
    • A Descriptive Catalogue of Postage Stamps, [3rd ed], 18 Sep 1867
    • A Descriptive Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 4th ed, Jun 1868
    • A Descriptive Catalogue of all Postage Stamps, 5th ed, Jul 1869

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