2.2.1.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CURRENT-AWARENESS AND RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES by BRIAN J. BIRCH © Brian J. Birch 33 Boar’s Head Avenue, Standish WIGAN, WN6 0BH, UK 1st January 2015 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOUND VOLUMES Although this document is only intended to exist in electronic form, I find it very convenient to have a hard copy to hand. It is easier to refer to a book than wait the five or ten minutes it takes to start up and close down a computer, just to obtain a single reference or check a fact. Books also give you the big picture of the document as a whole rather than the small-screen glimpses we have all got used to. Accordingly, I printed and bound a copy of this document in February 2006, which I have called the First edition for convenience. Henceforth, I will bind a copy each January, or thereabouts, provided the document has increased in size by at least ten percent during the year. At the same time I will send an update to the web files on http://hps.gr/fipliterature, where the electronic version of this document is hosted. Since printing and binding is quite an expensive undertaking, I will donate the obsolete volumes to important philatelic libraries round the world. By the middle of 2012, in line with my other documents, I simplified the set-up and turned off the remove widows and orphans feature. This resulted in a reduction in length of 8 pages. This edition was printed on the first day of January 2015 1st edition, February 2006 A single bound copy of 124 pages. It was donated to the Western Philatelic Library of Sunnyvale, California, when it was replaced in my library by the 2nd edition. Ø This edition was bound in black. However, when it was realised that several volumes of Philatelic and Postal Bookplates had been inadvertently bound in black, a new colour was selected. All subsequent volumes were bound in red. 2nd edition, December 2008 A single bound copy of 143 pages. It was donated to the Collectors Club of New York, when it was replaced in my library by the 3rd edition. This edition was requested earlier than usual by Anthony Virvilis, the incoming President of the FIP Literature Commission. This was inadvertently bound in black but all subsequent volumes will be bound in red. 3rd edition, January 2010 A single bound copy of 193 pages. It was donated to the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library of Denver, Colorado, when it was replaced in my library by the 4th edition. This edition is to be bound in red. 4th edition, January 2012 A single bound copy of 219 pages. It was donated to the American Philatelic Research Library of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, when it was replaced in my library by the 5th edition. 5th edition, January 2013 A single bound copy of 248 pages. It was donated to the National Philatelic Society of London, UK, when it was replaced in my library by the 6th edition. 6th edition, January 2014 A single bound copy of 257 pages. It was donated to the Royal Philatelic Society London, UK, when it was replaced in my library by the 7th edition. 7th edition, January 2015 A single bound copy of 271 pages. It was donated to the British Library of London, UK, when it was replaced in my library by the 8th edition. 2 The Author September 2004 3 4 CONTENTS Frontispiece 3 Foreword 9 Background 11 Introduction 13 Current-Awareness Indexes 13 Retrospective Indexes 14 Ad hoc Multi-Periodical Indexes 15 Negus’ Contribution 16 The American Philatelic Society’s Contribution 17 Reviews of Reviews 21 References 22 Abbreviations 23 List of Symbols 24 List of Abbreviations 26 Abbreviations for American States & Possessions 42 Abbreviations for Australian States & Territories 44 Abbreviations for Canadian Provinces & Territories 45 Bibliographies of Current-Awareness & Retrospective 47 Indexes Introduction 47 The Bibliographies 47 Bibliography of Articles on Current-Awareness & 51 Retrospective Indexes Origin and Scope of the Bibliography 51 Arrangement of the Bibliography 51 The Bibliography 53 Author Index 77 The Indexes 81 Schuyler B. Bradt 1886 81 Dr. Otto Carl Alfred Moschkau 1889 99 Thomas Martin Wears 1891 105 Victor Suppantschitsch 1892 111 Otto Rommel 1896 126 George Bartholomew Duerst 1899 127 Vereins für Briefmarkenkunde Kiel 1900 132 W. J. Stanton 1900 139 5 Herbert L’Estrange Ewen 1901 146 William Carlos Stone 1901 148 Gordon Ireland 1904 151 Bertram Tapscott Knight Smith 1904 152 Stamp Collectors’ Annual 1905 155 William A. R. Jex Long 1906 158 Philatelic Record 1909 160 Nils Strandell 1909 162 William Reynolds Ricketts & Clifford Washington Kissinger 1911 164 Friedrich Wilhelm Thalmann 1911 169 William Reynolds Ricketts 1912 170 H. G. T. Cannons 1913 172 Stamp Collectors’ Quarterly 1917 173 Arch. H. Pike 1918 174 Wereld Post 1918 177 Max Bloch 1919 180 Hugo Krötzsch 1919 181 Friedrich Leitenberger 1924 182 Filatelia 1925 183 William Reynolds Ricketts 1925 184 Die Postmarke 1925 185 Philatelic Congress of Great Britain 1925 187 Indice Bibliografico Filatelico 1925 188 Albert H. Harris 1926 189 Philatelisten-Zeitung 1927 191 London Philatelist 1928 192 De Philatelist 1928 193 Francis P. Renaut D’Oultre-Seille 1929 194 Deutsche Philatelistische Bücherwurm 1931 198 Philatelistische Literatur 1932 199 South African Philatelist 1935 200 Frederick J. Melville 1935 201 Fritz Billig 1936 202 Ralph Archibald Kimble 1937 203 C. Schmittdiel 1937 204 Daniel W. Vooys 1945 211 B. Howard Paulsen 1947 212 Universal Postage Stamp Review 1947 215 Alfred Ihm 1948 216 Arthur Blair 1950 217 Stamp Lover 1950 218 Literatur Nachrichten 1951 219 David Lidman 1953 220 Edwin Mueller 1956 221 6 Gesellschaft für Postgeschichte 1957 225 H. L. Chisholm 1959 226 Bundesnachrichten 196? 227 Wanda K. Duke 1976 228 Cimon Morin 1979 229 Geoffrey Kellow 1982 230 Pentti Anttila 1983 231 Lawrence C. Schwartz 1983 232 British Press Checklist 1985 233 Barbara & Tadeusz Wincewicz 1985 234 C. Nieuwland 1987 237 Lea & Meadows 1997 238 List of Periodicals Indexed 239 Appendices 241 1. Unpublished Indexes 241 Bacon 241 Creeke 244 Fricks 250 James 252 Kell 254 Kimble 256 Olcheski 257 Pawley 258 Piper 258 Postal History Foundation 260 Stone 260 Strandell 262 Tiffany 262 Vooys 264 Western Postal History Museum 266 2. Lost Indexes 269 Bates 269 Bellamy 269 British North America Philatelic Society 269 Vallancey 270 3. Specialised Current-Awareness Indexes 271 Introduction 271 Poland 271 7 8 FOREWORD This is Section 2.2.1.5 of my masterwork:– THE PHILATELIC BIBLIOPHILES COMPANION For some four decades, I have been collecting indexes as an aid to my philatelic researches. Only since about 1990 have they been compiled onto my computer as a bibliography of indexes. In fact, I have started two bibliographies, one to Cumulative Indexes to individual periodicals and the other to Current-Awareness and Retrospective Indexes. It is the latter category that concerns us here. All of the attempts to produce comprehensive periodical indexes which have given rise to some form of published output will be included in this serialised bibliography. However, it does not include unpublished indexes, such as the American Philatelic Research Library’s Piper Index, the Smithsonian’s Kimble Index or the Royal Philatelic Society London’s Bacon Index and Creeke index(15), the latter of which is not really in a suitable form for regular use at present. It does appear to me that an extremely useful service could be provided to philately if these unpublished, personal indexes were computerised and made widely- available to philatelists. It is recognised that such an endeavour would be a labour of love for some unpaid philatelists. The Library Committee of the Royal fully supports this view and currently has projects in hand to computerise the indexes compiled by Sir Edward Denny Bacon and by Antony Buck Creeke Jr. Over the years, I have collected many indexes but have written up very few, since the time to research their history and produce the record dramatically exceeds the time I have routinely available, since I am forced to work for a living. In order to see some results of my labours before I get too old to appreciate them, I have decided to publish this bibliography as each index is completed since an appreciation of each index will in fact make a stand-alone article. I will generally, but not rigidly, publish these in date order starting with the earliest retrospective index of all: that produced by Thomas Martin Wears. Brian John Birch Standish, UK. 10th February 2006 9 10 BACKGROUND It is to the credit of philatelists, that our hobby is so richly endowed with literature that the first philatelic bibliography was published by John Gray as early as 1862(1). This was just 22 years after the issue of the first stamp, the penny black, and the same year as the publication of the first philatelic periodical The Monthly Advertiser (subsequently The Stamp Collectors’ Review and Monthly Advertiser)(2). Those interested in perusing this bibliography and who do not have a copy of the first edition of Gray’s Catalogue to hand, are fortunate that it has been reprinted by The Philatelic Literature Society(3). Although this mass of literature is undoubtedly a boon to philatelists, it does pose a major problem to its potential users – access. How can a researcher locate the required references from among the hundreds of thousands of philatelic books, pamphlets, catalogues and periodical articles that have been published over the past 150 years? The separately - published items such as books are generally very well catered for since their titles usually reflect their contents fairly accurately and each will have its own entry under both title and author in national bibliographies and library catalogues.