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Mine has arrived checking SG prices against Scott's lucky you don't use Gibbons to by your Australian stamps ,were as Scott's lists the local post S/A at 25c Gibbons are £1-00/, £1-75 the same price as they charge for ordinary stamps.
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In the past, not sure about now, the SG catalogue prices were what they would sell the stamps for if you wished to purchase them, it was basically their retail price list.
Not sure if the other catalogue publishers worked on a similar system.
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".... it was basically their retail price list....."
Yes, that was, and probably is, the case.
Some fifty years ago my ship spent a week or so at a dock across the Thames from the city center and I went over to find and visit what seemed like an exotic address on the Strand. What a disappointment. We had just come from Bremerhaven and Rotterdam where there were many stamp shops and where prices seemed reasonable
I was shocked and soon left without making a purchase. Two or three streets away I spent well over an hour chatting with the owner, perusing a set of stock-books, and picking out a large number of stamps.
Never again.
In those days Minkus sold stamps and produced an informative catalog, but Scott did not.(Sell Stamps)
Someone else can speak about Michel, Yvert and Ceres.
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Stanley Gibbons has released the 12th edition of its Australia stamp catalogue which features a comprehensive listing of Australia and the Australian States.
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Mine has arrived checking SG prices against Scott's lucky you don't use Gibbons to by your Australian stamps ,were as Scott's lists the local post S/A at 25c Gibbons are £1-00/, £1-75 the same price as they charge for ordinary stamps.
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In the past, not sure about now, the SG catalogue prices were what they would sell the stamps for if you wished to purchase them, it was basically their retail price list.
Not sure if the other catalogue publishers worked on a similar system.
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re: Australia catalogue
".... it was basically their retail price list....."
Yes, that was, and probably is, the case.
Some fifty years ago my ship spent a week or so at a dock across the Thames from the city center and I went over to find and visit what seemed like an exotic address on the Strand. What a disappointment. We had just come from Bremerhaven and Rotterdam where there were many stamp shops and where prices seemed reasonable
I was shocked and soon left without making a purchase. Two or three streets away I spent well over an hour chatting with the owner, perusing a set of stock-books, and picking out a large number of stamps.
Never again.
In those days Minkus sold stamps and produced an informative catalog, but Scott did not.(Sell Stamps)
Someone else can speak about Michel, Yvert and Ceres.
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