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Looking for more then general information on the current Scott Catalog Numbering System, would like specific background information for the numbering system, when, what, reaction, positive/negative comments.
Care to share what information you have?
DAVID THOMPSON
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Not exactly sure what you are looking for but Scott adopted the present system with the 1940 edition and noted the following:
New Features Renumbering
In previous editions of the Catalogue the numbering has been in numerical sequence
under each country, leaving a gap between the different groups, i.e., Semi-Postals, Air Post, etc.. to allow for the addition of new issues. This has been satisfactory until recent years when these gaps have been rapidly closing up. It was inevitable that a new method of numbering be adopted and. after a thorough study of the problem and careful consideration of the many suggestions sent in by collectors, the following system has been incorporated in this edition.
Stamps issued for regular postage are indicated by numbers only, without prefix
letters, the same as heretofore with the exception of some re-arrangement necessary to
group stamps of a like design together.
All other groups are likewise numbered consecutively, starting with No 1 but the
numeral carries a prefix letter denoting its classification. Thus, Semi-Postals start with Bl, Air Posts with CI. while Semi-Postal Air Post stamps have the two-letter prefix CB, etc.
After studying the accompanying table a collector should soon be able to determine at a
glance into which classification a stamp falls by simply looking at the catalogue number.
The regular postal issues of each country are followed by the other groups in the
alphabetical order of the prefix letter or letters. No single country has all of the groups,the majority have only a few. The flexibility of the system is such, however, that new groups can be added, if and as they appear, without disturbing the present listings.
HUGH M. CLARK
THERESA M. CLARK
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@nl1947
You hit it on the nail, exactly what I was looking for.
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Of course there were exceptions to the rules of the renumbering... It is not a "pure" numbering system, meaning that you will find in some countries some semi-postal and air mail issues listed among the corresponding regular postage stamps that were issued both before and after 1940.
If, when looking for a semi-postal or air mail stamp among the "B" and "C" listings, and you don't find it, check the regular postage listing to see if it is tucked away in a set there.
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"If, when looking for a semi-postal or air mail stamp among the "B" and "C" listings, and you don't find it, check the regular postage listing to see if it is tucked away in a set there."
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10:10:12pm
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Looking for more then general information on the current Scott Catalog Numbering System, would like specific background information for the numbering system, when, what, reaction, positive/negative comments.
Care to share what information you have?
DAVID THOMPSON
MSGT/USAF/RETIRED
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10:39:45pm
re: New Scott Catalog Numbering System (historic background)
Not exactly sure what you are looking for but Scott adopted the present system with the 1940 edition and noted the following:
New Features Renumbering
In previous editions of the Catalogue the numbering has been in numerical sequence
under each country, leaving a gap between the different groups, i.e., Semi-Postals, Air Post, etc.. to allow for the addition of new issues. This has been satisfactory until recent years when these gaps have been rapidly closing up. It was inevitable that a new method of numbering be adopted and. after a thorough study of the problem and careful consideration of the many suggestions sent in by collectors, the following system has been incorporated in this edition.
Stamps issued for regular postage are indicated by numbers only, without prefix
letters, the same as heretofore with the exception of some re-arrangement necessary to
group stamps of a like design together.
All other groups are likewise numbered consecutively, starting with No 1 but the
numeral carries a prefix letter denoting its classification. Thus, Semi-Postals start with Bl, Air Posts with CI. while Semi-Postal Air Post stamps have the two-letter prefix CB, etc.
After studying the accompanying table a collector should soon be able to determine at a
glance into which classification a stamp falls by simply looking at the catalogue number.
The regular postal issues of each country are followed by the other groups in the
alphabetical order of the prefix letter or letters. No single country has all of the groups,the majority have only a few. The flexibility of the system is such, however, that new groups can be added, if and as they appear, without disturbing the present listings.
HUGH M. CLARK
THERESA M. CLARK
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10:48:09pm
re: New Scott Catalog Numbering System (historic background)
@nl1947
You hit it on the nail, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks
DAVID THOMPSON
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re: New Scott Catalog Numbering System (historic background)
Of course there were exceptions to the rules of the renumbering... It is not a "pure" numbering system, meaning that you will find in some countries some semi-postal and air mail issues listed among the corresponding regular postage stamps that were issued both before and after 1940.
If, when looking for a semi-postal or air mail stamp among the "B" and "C" listings, and you don't find it, check the regular postage listing to see if it is tucked away in a set there.
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re: New Scott Catalog Numbering System (historic background)
"If, when looking for a semi-postal or air mail stamp among the "B" and "C" listings, and you don't find it, check the regular postage listing to see if it is tucked away in a set there."
This drives me crazy sometimes.
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"This drives me crazy sometimes."
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