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The Bustamantes of Peru

The Bustamante 2022 'Catalogo Especializado De Las Estampillas Del Peru'

For three generations the Bustamante family has been producing both simplified and specialized catalogues for collectors of Peru. A new edition is planned for publication in 2022 (see details below). […]

11th April 2022Categories People, PublicationsLeave a Comment2

Book Review | The 19th Century Issues of El Salvador 1867-1900. Guillermo F. Gallegos & Joseph D. Hahn

The 19th Century Issues of El Salvador 1867-1900. Guillermo Gallegos & Joseph Hahn

Many of the Latin American republics have had a variety of specialized catalogues and handbooks written over the years but El Salvador has not been one of them. There has […]

20th October 2021Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment0

The Mainsheet goes digital

The Mainsheet

Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Mainsheet. And to bring it in to the 21st century, the entire run has now been digitised. For […]

9th February 2021Categories People, PublicationsLeave a Comment0

The Collector | Peter Bamert | Mexico

Mexico National Express Co

Peter Bamert is the editor of the ‘Postal Stationery of Mexico’, a comprehensive work that catalogues Mexico’s envelopes, postal cards, wrappers and more. CLA How did you get interested in […]

15th November 2020Categories Publications, The CollectorLeave a Comment1

The Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue: a review

Once upon a time, Stanley Gibbons’ twin volume South America and Central America catalogues were my daily reference tools. They are still powerful weapons in the Latin America collector’s armoury […]

2nd February 2020Categories General Philately, PublicationsLeave a Comment0

New specialized Argentina catalogue published

GJ Specialized Argentina Catalogue

It wasn’t so long ago that stamp catalogues contained a handful of grainy, black and white images to help identify an issue. The new GJ Argentina Catalogue shows just how […]

2nd January 2019Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment1

Collect Brazil? You probably need this…

Brazil catalogue cross reference book

Pre-internet, collectors tended to be far more reliant  – dependent even – on the catalogue that was written in their own language. Buying and selling was limited to the relationships […]

18th August 2018Categories Analysis, PublicationsLeave a Comment2

SOFICH, so good

SOFICH Chile catalogue

I recently acquired a very nice collection of pre-1940 Chile that had been collected by SOFICH and cross-referenced by Scott. It clearly shows just how much room for expansion there […]

4th April 2018Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment0

Part 20, Part 20, wherefore art thou Part 20…?

Stanley Gibbons' Latin American catalogues have not been published since 2007/8

It is now ten years since Stanley Gibbons printed the fourth and current edition of their ‘Part 20’ South America stamp catalogue. And the separate ‘Part 15’ that covers Central […]

15th February 2018Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment2

Bookshelf Essentials Part II – The Central American Newsletter

Central American Newsletter

Although The Mainsheet covered all twenty republics, its focus was primarily on South America. In 1980, under the editorship of Bernard Davies, The Central American Newsletter was launched as a […]

14th December 2017Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment3

Bookshelf Essentials – The Mainsheet

The Mainsheet

If there is one thing philatelists are not short of it is reading material. Decades of book publishing has produced a wealth of literature on every subject imaginable and each […]

13th December 2017Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment2

Book Review – Introducing Venezuela’s Escuelas Stamps by Williams Castillo

Introducing Venezuela's Escuelas

Before we get to the content, I should point out that the beauty of this book is the author’s skill for taking a complicated subject and making it very simple […]

20th December 2016Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment0

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