Philatelic literature

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The world's first exclusively philatelic trade journal from 1862

Philatelic literature is written works on postage stamps , philatelic documents and postal history .

Description and history

The wide popularity of the hobby of philately can also be found in the literature area. Philatelic catalogs , especially postage stamp catalogs , are among the most popular and fundamental works . In addition to postage stamp catalogs, there are also postal stationery and letter catalogs, mostly with price information. They are essential to get an overview of the collection areas and they are important reference points for prices. The Strasbourg bookseller Oscar Berger-Levrault started with his list or catalog on September 17, 1861, the first of its kind, which is also considered the first literature in the field of philately. It was called "Description of the Postage Stamps Known Up to Now" and was a stamp and postal stationery directory. A short time later, the first commercial stamp catalogs came into being. Today there are already online catalogs.

For further basic knowledge, philatelic specialist dictionaries are important, they contain definitions and compact information on the elementary terms, they are not only relevant for newcomers to the subject. The first detailed German-language lexicon came from 1923 and was called "Grosses Lexikon der Philatelie". This reference work with 14,500 entries still contained many proper names of places and motifs as keywords. As early as 1922, B. Poole published the Standard Philatelic Dictionary in book form. It was not until 1971 that the second specialist lexicon in German by the authors Gruschke / Grallert followed from the GDR with 5,300 headwords, which sold a total of 110,000 copies. 1978 was the only time a two-volume general work was published in Germany so far. Perhaps the first forerunner of a lexicon was a glossary of philatelic terms from 1912, entitled "Glossary of Philatelic Terms" by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain.

The first monographs in the field appeared around 1875, the first authors were e.g. B. Jean-Baptiste Moens or Alfred Moschkau . Probably the most successful guidebook or textbook in German-speaking countries to date was Richard Borek's 1963 book “Kleines Brevier für Briefmarkensammler”, which had a circulation of 150,000.

Several new books from the area appear in German-speaking countries every month. In addition to the large number of books on more or less specific topics, there are some philatelic journals . There are several general journals on this in Germany alone. There are also other sheets of working groups, which are often of great importance in their specialist area, and association news. A kind of first trade journal was "The Monthly Intelligencer" in September 1862, from Birmingham, by the publisher William Macmillan. This first magazine already had a lot of content about philately, but it also contained articles from other collecting areas and is therefore more of a forerunner. The world's first exclusively philatelic trade journal was "The Monthly Advertiser" from December 15, 1862 from England . Soon afterwards the first German magazine appeared with the “Magazin für Briefmarken-Collector” , with the first edition from May 1, 1863, published by the coin and antique shop Zschiesche & Köder in Leipzig . The three oldest stamp magazines published to date are:

These works find their way into philatelic libraries . Some of these specialist libraries include tens of thousands of media units. At first there were larger literature collections in the area only as private libraries , later the first association libraries were formed by collectors' associations and then special public libraries were formed .

to form

  • Catalogs
    • Stamp catalogs
      • Country catalogs
      • Motif catalogs
      • Special catalogs
    • Postal stationery catalogs
    • Letter catalogs
    • Catalogs for special topics, such as B. for certain stamps
    • Philatelic manuals
    • Auction catalogs (of auctions)
    • Exhibition catalogs
  • Books
    • Monographs
    • Serial works
    • Bibliographies
    • Specialist dictionaries
  • Festschriften
  • Form albums
  • Magazines
    • Trade journals
    • Dealer sheets
    • Sheets of associations, clubs and working groups
  • Internet presences and websites

literature

General
  • E. Bergmann: Thoughts on the meaning, evaluation and development of "Philatelic literature". In: Wolfgang Maassen: International Philatelic Literature Exhibition , exhibition catalog for the IPHLA in Mainz 2. – 4. November 2012, pp. 234-263
  • W. Blank: Philately in the specialist and daily press , dissertation, printing and publishing: A. Hoffmann, Leipzig 1930, 108 pp.
  • Wolfgang Maassen : Collecting literature - maintaining libraries. Volume 4 from the series Advice for stamp collectors , Phil Creativ Verlag, Schwalmtal 2004, 150 pages, ISBN 978-3-932198-58-8
  • Wolfgang Maassen: On the situation of philatelic literature in Germany. In: The Philatelic Journalist No. 157, October 2018, pp. 33–36
  • Wolfgang Maassen: Philatelic literature at exhibitions: a critical consideration. In: The Philatelic Journalist No. 157, October 2018, pp. 18-23
  • Deutsche Briefmarken-Revue, issue 5/1996, pp. 46–48
history
  • Philatelic Literature, It's Lore and Heritage: Collectors, Dealers and Great Libraries. In: Philatelic Literature Review , No. 1/2016, Vol. 65, pp. 14-30
  • M. Amrhein: Philatelic Literature , Volume 1–4 from 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2006
  • L. König: About philatelic literature. (Continuation article) In: Illustrated Briefmarken-Journal , year 1906, from p. 21
  • Wolfgang Maassen, Vincent Schoustaats: Les jalons de la littérature philatélique au XIXe siècle / Milestones of the Philatelic Literature of the 19th Century , book on the philatelic literature exhibition in Monaco, (text in French and English), Musée des Timbres et des Monnaies de Monaco, 2013, ISBN 9789081464192 , 512 pp.
  • Wolfgang Maassen: The first philatelic literature appeared 150 years ago. In: philatelie - The magazine of the Association of German Philatelists , issue No. 416, February 2012, pp. 42 to 45
  • Wolfgang Maassen: The Origin of Philatelic Literature in Germany and Austria , special volume No. 16 from the series "Chronik der deutschen Philatelie", Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2019, 63 pp.
Magazines
  • Phila Historica - magazine for the history of philately and philatelic literature, publisher: Wolfgang Maassen, first publication: March 2013
  • Philatelic Literature Review - Journal of the American Philatelic Research Library, published quarterly

See also

Web links

Commons : Philatelic Literature  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Maassen: The first philatelic literature appeared 150 years ago. In: philatelie - The magazine of the Association of German Philatelists , issue No. 416, February 2012, pages 42 to 45
  2. ^ Wolfgang Maassen: Philately and Associations in the 19th Century , Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2006, ISBN 978-3-932198-69-4 , p. 178 f
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Maassen: In the foreword. In: Wolfram Grallert: Lexicon of Philately. 2nd Edition. Phil * Creativ GmbH, Schwalmtal 2007, ISBN 978-3-932198-38-0 , p. 3
  4. ↑ a b A must for every collector: The new "Lexicon of Philately". In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Revue issue No. 11/2000, p. 22 f
  5. ↑ classic-philatelie.ch : Lexica and handbooks. Retrieved October 22, 2013 .
  6. ^ Dictionaries. In: M. Amrhein: Philatelic Literature , Volume 2, pp. 63-64
  7. ↑ cf. Gottfried North : Large encyclopedia of philately. (Book review) In: Archive for German Postal History Issue 2/1978, p. 149
  8. ^ Preface. In: James Mackay: Philatelic Terms Illustrated. Published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, London and Ringwood 2003, ISBN 0-85259-557-3
  9. ↑ philabooks.com: About the collection area philatelic literature. Retrieved October 22, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung issue No. 19/2013, p. 28
  11. ↑ a b Brian J. Birch: Which was the first magazine devoted to stamp collecting? In: Phila Historica issue No. 2 from May 2013, pp. 89–99
  12. ↑ a b Wolfgang Maassen: Philately and Associations in the 19th Century , Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2006, ISBN 978-3-932198-69-4 , p. 218
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Maassen: Philately and Associations in the 19th Century , Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2006, ISBN 978-3-932198-69-4 , p. 218 f
  14. ^ Carlrichard Brühl: History of Philately , Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim 1986, Volume 2, ISBN 3487076209 , p. 771
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Maassen: 1862–2012: 150 Years of Philatelic Literature in Germany. In: International Philatelic Literature Exhibition , exhibition catalog for the IPHLA in Mainz from 2-4. November 2012, p. 161
  16. ^ Wolfgang Maassen: Philately and Associations in the 19th Century , Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2006, ISBN 978-3-932198-69-4 , p. 222 f
  17. ^ Hans Schwarz: 125 years of the Soviet occupation zone. In: Schweizer Briefmarken Zeitung issue 1–2 / 2013, p. 18 f
  18. ↑ From first literary collectors to later large libraries. In: Wolfgang Maassen: Collecting literature - maintaining libraries. Volume 4 from the series Advice for stamp collectors , Phil Creativ Verlag, Schwalmtal 2004, ISBN 978-3-932198-58-8 , p. 114 ff