Current Catalogs
The following catalogs have a worldwide coverage:
- Michel - printed, software and online
- Scott - printed and pdf-format
- Stanley Gibbons - printed and online
- Yvert et Tellier - printed only
These are large undertakings, since there are thousands of new stamps to describe each year, and the prices of all stamps may go up or down. For publishers that are not dealers, the prices are estimated by data from dealers and auctions.
In addition, the catalog publishers usually put out specialized volumes with additional details, generally by nationality: Michel has a specialized German catalog, Scott a specialized US catalog, and so forth.
Many countries have their own "national catalogs", typically put out by a leading publisher or dealer in that country. Postal administrations may themselves put out catalogs, although they tend to be aimed at less-experienced collectors, and rarely provide fully detailed stamp data. Some notable country catalogs include:
- ABDA (Philippines)
- Aerophil (Switzerland)
- AFA (Denmark)
- AFINSA (Portugal)
- Brusden-White (Australia)
- Edifil catalogs (Spain and its former colonies)
- Facit (all countries of Scandinavia)
- Fischer (Poland)
- Hellas (Greece)
- Hibernian (Ireland)
- JB Catalogue of Malta Stamps and Postal History (Malta)
- Lamy (Peru)
- Ma catalog (China)
- Phila India - Manik (India)
- Sassone (Italy)
- Sakura catalog (Japan)
- Yang catalog (Hong Kong)
- Zumstein (Switzerland)
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