Postage Stamp Catalogs

Catalogs describing and valuing postage stamps have been published since the 1860s. A few, including the Scott catalogs, have been published continously since that era. Aside from several major publishers that produce full-scale worldwide catalogs, there are a number of specialized catalogs that provide very detailed listings for specific countries or related areas. Most of these catalogs can be purchased from the StampFinder.Com website's philatelic supplies section. The listing shown here contains many of the world's most important stamp catalogs and links are provided to each respective publisher's website.

Aside from offering relatively current market values for stamps listed, one of the essential benefits of these catalogs is their detailed listings that describe the stamps and educate the collector about their varieties, reasons for issue, and other facts.

Seven Seas Australia and territories.	Brookman United States stamps priced at current retail values.	Campbell-Paterson Printed in color; essential specialized catalog for New Zealand	Ceres France & Colonies
Daka The Belgian company, DAKA, publishes Scandanavian catalogs.	Domfil Domfil of Spain specializes in thematic catalogs covering topics such as chess, dinosaurs, sports and railway stamps.	Stanley Gibbons Founded in 1865, the London publisher Gibbons produces a variety of general and specialized catalogs.	Stanley Gibbons One of the several specialized catalogs on the stamps of Great Britain.
Marka-Ukrainy Ukraine catalog compiled by Center-Publishing House.	Michel Worldwide Catalogs Published in Munich, Germany	NVPH Catalog of the stamps of the Netherlands.	Krause-Minkus Standard Catalog of U.S. stamps
Sakura Color standard catalog of Japanese stamps, distributed by the Japan Philatelic Society.	Sanabria The world airmail catalog	Scott Catalogs Worldwide Catalogs and the standard U.S. specialized catalog	SBK Schweizer Briefmarken Katalog -- catalog of Switzerland stamps, offered in German or French.
Unitrade Specialized catalog of Canadian stamps.	Vlastos Two-volume catalog of Greece and Cyprus.	The Stamps of Iran In English and Farsi.	Yvert & Tellier Multi-volume worldwide catalog from France.
Zumstein Switzerland and Liechtenstein.