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WORLD - Scott World Standard Catalogue Vol 6:;San-Z;2012 Published by Scott. 1512pp. Colour. English Inc miniature sheets, occupation issues, officials, postage dues, airmails, special delivery,;newspaper stamps, souvenir sheets, booklets, coils, parcel post, booklet panes, imperforate issues, common design types, illustrated identifier, directory of philatelic societies, expertising services, and dealers Review courtesy of David Rennie This is the first volume under the editorship of Charles Snee, who introduces himself on the editorial page. Once again there are vast numbers of price changes, almost 14,000 of them, with Thailand leading the way with over 3500, way ahead of Switzerland which has over 1700. Others of note include Singapore (1000+), Transvaal and Uzbekistan (700 each) and Somali Coast (over 650). The boxes indicating where the mint listing of a country changes from mounted to unmounted now have yellow background shading, making them visually obvious to catalogue users. The Thailand prices are mainly increases and cover all periods and types of stamp. The strong Swiss Frank is driving up its country's prices in the Dollar market, especially post 1965 issues where many are now double face. This is in line with Scott's policy of pricing recent postal valid and new issue stamps at this level. Singapore prices move up and down, so need checking, especially post 2001 issues which are up between 10% and 30%. Generally recent stamps of many countries where the issue quantity is relatively small, (Scott mentions a 10,000 to 100,000 level), are expected to rise. There are almost 50 new listings in Shanghai; another 200 booklets of Thailand for the period 1980-1998 have been added, and type 1 and 2 designs of the 1980-84 issues have minor letter listings. More Granite paper issues are added in Switzerland 1940 Coat of Arms issues. This volume has over 1500pages. It is worth noting that Volume 1 of the 2012 catalogue (see July 2011 Exporter), has already sold out: a sign of collector interest, or perhaps a too conservative print run  |
