Yvert et Tellier

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Yvert et Tellier is a stamp dealer and philatelic publisher founded in Amiens in northern France in 1895 , where the company's headquarters are still today. The company logo, consisting of a circle with a snowflake and a smiling sun, refers to a play on words for the company name, which sounds something like: hiver, été liés ("winter, summer together").

Eugène Yvert founded the company in 1831 as a newspaper publisher. The change to philately was made in 1895 by his grandson Louis Yvert and his chief printer Théodule Tellier. Today the company is still run by the Yvert family.

Products

The company's main product is its stamp catalogs for those countries that are frequently collected by French philatelists: France , Andorra , Monaco and the former French colonies with their successor states. In France, Yvert et Tellier is one of the most important philatelic catalogs alongside Cérès and Dallay .

Based on an old collaboration between Louis Yvert and Théodore Champion , they publish the monthly magazine Ancienne Maison Théodore Champion about stamps from all over the world.

The Yvert catalog, known as “Yvert & Tellier” for short, is - like the Michel catalog in Germany, the Scott catalog in the USA and the Stanley Gibbons catalog in Great Britain - a catalog with an international index. It includes, today with color images, postage stamps from all countries, which are numbered within the countries and provided with values. The catalogs for non-European countries are organized alphabetically according to country names, whereas the Michel catalogs are structured according to geographical criteria.

history

Origin and development

In the 1890s in Amiens, the Yvert family's print shop was owned by Louis Yvert, the founder's grandson, and his print manager Théodule Tellier. After the early death of Louis' father, Tellier kept the business going. Louis didn't want to take responsibility for his father's newspaper, L'Écho de la Somme . Thanks to Tellier, a philatelist who already published the philatelic magazine called L'Écho de la timbrologie , he discovered stamp collecting for himself.

In 1895, Yvert and Tellier began publishing philatelic literature. In November 1896 they published a stamp catalog with worldwide coverage and brought out a stamp album. In contrast to other catalogs on the market, which kept changing their numbering with newly discovered brands, Yvert and Tellier based their catalog on a logical numbering system, which proved to be very successful and earned the catalog great recognition.

From 1900 Yvert et Tellier worked with Théodore Champion , who traded in postage stamps from all over the world. He set prices for the stamps he sold in his store. After Champion's death in 1955, Pierre Yvert and his brothers Ladislas and Alexandre Varga bought Champions' company and continued it. So they could continue to influence the sales and catalog prices.

In April 1913, because of the death of his grandson, Tellier sold his share in the company to Louis Yvert, who kept the company name Yvert et Tellier in memory of their mutual friendship .

During the 1920s and 1930s his two sons and son-in-law gradually joined the company. Henri was in charge of the printing company and his brother Pierre took over responsibility for the magazine L'Écho de la timbrologie . Jean Gervais took care of the publishing house.

The grandsons of Pierre Yvert and Jean Gervais have been running the company since the 1990s.

Recent developments

In 2001 the Dallay catalog appeared, which had a great impact in the field. There are large images and information there that were not in the Yvert et Tellier catalog, such as the names of the stamp artists, date of first issue, period of use, etc. Yvert is now fighting on two fronts. The stamp numbering system was successfully defended and a free CD-ROM was issued with its French catalog. After a legal dispute, Yvert was ready to sell the numbering system on to other publishers.

In June 2006, Yvert et Tellier published a new catalog for French postage stamps, which as a cheaper paperback edition only contained images and prices of the stamps and thus corresponded to the catalog of Cérès, the second major philatelic publisher in France.

Pedigree of the Yvert family

The Yvert printing house and the Yvert et Tellier publishing house were mostly in the hands of the Yvert family. The family tree lists the family members who have run the company since the 19th century.

  • Eugène Yvert (circa 1794–1878), journalist, founder of the printing works in Amiens.
    • Henry Yvert (died 1885), company owner from 1870, also a journalist.
      • Louis Yvert (1866–1950), founding partner of the Yvert et Tellier catalog with Théodule Tellier.
        • Henri Yvert (died 1956), manager of the printing company.
        • Jeanne Yvert
          married Jean Gervais (died 1974), a doctor, then was manager of the Yvert et Tellier publishing house.
        • Pierre Yvert (1900–1964), manager of L'Écho de la timbrologie magazine.
          • Jean Yvert, successor to his father and manager of the printing company.
            • Christophe Yvert, print shop manager.

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  • Yvert et Tellier. Cent ans d'histoire . Yvert et Tellier, Amiens, France 1996.This book was published on the company's centenary and contained the company's history.
  1. ↑ Was still in the position in October 2007 for the interview with Amélie Amiel: En personne . In: Timbres magazine . No. 83, October 2007, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Was still in function in September 2006 during an interview with Aude Ben-Moha: Anticiper pour pérenniser la collection de France . In: L'Écho de la timbrologie . No. 1799, September 2006, pp. 36-37.

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