Responsibilities of Catalogues

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:21:57 +1200, "Dave Joll"
found these unused words floating about:

malcolm hirst wrote

Someone mentioned that the catalogue price is a comparison price. This
is also not true. Take a simple example GB commemoratives in Gibbons.
At the present time you can buy recent letter rate commemoratives in
kiloware relatively cheaply - yet these are catalogued at at least 50p
plus each.

This is because Gibbons' catalogue prices are for superb
examples with small, tidy, CDS type cancellations. You
will probably find that 99% of stamps in kiloware have
wavy line or slogan type cancellations. These would be
priced much lower.


Sorry ... but SG specifically states:

"The prices quoted ... for examples in fine condition for the issue
concerned. Superb examples are worth more; those os a lower quality
considrably less."

Beginning with SG 17 they additionally note for each group/period
something on the order of:

"17/35a ... For well-centred, lightly used ... +125%"

J. A. Mc. wrote

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:21:57 +1200, "Dave Joll"

malcolm hirst wrote

Someone mentioned that the catalogue price is a comparison price. This
is also not true. Take a simple example GB commemoratives in Gibbons.
At the present time you can buy recent letter rate commemoratives in
kiloware relatively cheaply - yet these are catalogued at at least 50p
plus each.

This is because Gibbons' catalogue prices are for superb
examples with small, tidy, CDS type cancellations. You
will probably find that 99% of stamps in kiloware have
wavy line or slogan type cancellations. These would be
priced much lower.

Sorry ... but SG specifically states:
"The prices quoted ... for examples in fine condition for the issue
concerned. Superb examples are worth more; those os a lower quality
considrably less."
Beginning with SG 17 they additionally note for each group/period
something on the order of:
"17/35a ... For well-centred, lightly used ... +125%"

Catalogues at 20 paces, it seems... :-)

My Part 1 states: "USED PRICES. For Nos. 515 onwards the
used prices quoted are for examples with circular dated postmarks".
Note that Malcolm mentioned recent letter rate commemoratives,
not "classics".

- Dave
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:12:38 +1200, "Dave Joll"
found these unused words floating about:

J. A. Mc. wrote

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:21:57 +1200, "Dave Joll"

malcolm hirst wrote

Someone mentioned that the catalogue price is a comparison price. This
is also not true. Take a simple example GB commemoratives in Gibbons.
At the present time you can buy recent letter rate commemoratives in
kiloware relatively cheaply - yet these are catalogued at at least 50p
plus each.

This is because Gibbons' catalogue prices are for superb
examples with small, tidy, CDS type cancellations. You
will probably find that 99% of stamps in kiloware have
wavy line or slogan type cancellations. These would be
priced much lower.

Sorry ... but SG specifically states:
"The prices quoted ... for examples in fine condition for the issue
concerned. Superb examples are worth more; those os a lower quality
considrably less."
Beginning with SG 17 they additionally note for each group/period
something on the order of:
"17/35a ... For well-centred, lightly used ... +125%"

Catalogues at 20 paces, it seems... :-)

My Part 1 states: "USED PRICES. For Nos. 515 onwards the
used prices quoted are for examples with circular dated postmarks".
Note that Malcolm mentioned recent letter rate commemoratives,
not "classics".

Guess you missed the part that said:
" fine condition for the issue concerned."

That's in the 'master' notes about the whole catalogue. Subsequent
'notes' modify as you noted "For Nos. 515 onward", but don't replace.
Nothing in the later notes says "Superb" as a condition.

He also used a 'simple example', but the notes in a catalogue should
(and do) apply as stated to the whole work, until modified as the
listing progresses for -each- country.