Bendigo Philatelic Society Inc.
Online catalogues and similar sites.
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Colnect is a free online catalogue of
collectors of just about anything. The stamps section is very
extensive. The site is supported by advertising or a small
donation will provide a premium membership with no ads. An
excellent resource and highly recommended. Colnect recently issued
a free app for mobile phones that allows you to use the camera
function to identify those stamps that are giving you trouble.It
works very well. |
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Stampworld is another excellent free stamp
catalogue. It has the advantage over many paper catalogues in that
it illustrates all the stamps in the set making it very useful for
identification. One disadvantage is that it separates stamps into
different sections so if you are looking in postage stamps and the
stamp you are looking for is a postage due, you will not find it
there. |
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Adrian Keppel's blog and database of
engraved stamps and the people who produced them. There is at
least a decade of good reading here. |
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Another site for those who think engraved
stamps are a cut above the rest. This site collates the known
information on engravers, designers and printers of 15000
different designs and slowly growing. |
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Most of the larger catalogue companies
also offer an online paid version. Gibbons charge about £40 a year
for theirs which is based on their standard catalogue rather than
the specialised versions. With the rising price of the printed
version, this is attractive to many collectors. Hopefully, in time
they will do the same with each of their specialised catalogues as
many philatelists only collect a limited number of countries. |
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