Alfred Potiquet
Alfred Potiquet (* 1820 ; † 1883 ) was a French civil servant who was responsible for the world's second " postage stamp catalog " or list of postage stamps.
Alfred Potiquet developed his stamp catalog on the basis of the stamp and postal stationery index of the Strasbourg bookseller Oscar Berger-Levrault . Although this is considered to be the world's first stamp catalog, it did not yet have any images of stamps and was not intended for the public. He added numerous editions that were overlooked by Oscar Berger-Levrault and corrected his mistakes.
His work was finally published in Paris in December 1861 under the title “Catalog des timbres-poste crées dans les divers états du globe”. It already included 1080 postage stamps and 132 postal stationery . This greatly improved stamp catalog was still not flawless. For example, there was no information about postage stamps that were still unknown at the time, such as the Red and Blue Mauritius .
In addition to this stamp catalog by Oscar Berger-Levrault and Alfred Potiquet, a similar work by John Edward Gray was created in parallel in England .
literature
- Manfred Amrhein: Philatelic Literature. A History and a select Bibliography form 1861 To 1991 , Volume One, ISBN 9977-47-155-X , p. 9 f
- Peter Fischer: Basic knowledge: Potiquet. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung , issue No. 9/2014, p. 44
Individual evidence
- ^ Carlrichard Brühl: History of Philately. Volume 2, Olms, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-487-07618-7 , page 604
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potiquet, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French civil servant and philatelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1820 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1883 |