Yvert et Tellier
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Yvert et Tellier is a postage stamp and furniture dealer and a philatelic editor founded 1895 at Amiens, northern France, where the head office is still located. The logo is a circle divided between a snow flake and a smiling sun.
The family company was founded 1831 as a printing works for a legitimist paper by Eugène Yvert in 1831. The specialisation into philately was decided 1895 by Eugène's grand-son Louis Yvert and his chief printer Théodule Tellier. Nowadays the company is still run by the Yvert family.
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[edit] Products
Yvert et Tellier's major product is a stamp catalog which is a reference for stamps and countries largely collecting by French philatelists: France, French post in Andorra, Monaco, former French colonies and their philatelic history as independent states. In France, it is one of the most important philatelic editors with Cérès and Dallay.
Continuing the old association between Louis Yvert and Théodore Champion, the Ancien Maison Théodore Champion edits monthly and yearly a colour catalog of new issued stamps in the world. Usually, Yvert catalogs for non-European countries are printed in black and white.
It is one of the international references too with Michel, Scott and Stanley Gibbons. Yvert catalog list stamps issued by all countries in the world, but for non-European countries, the volumes are organized in alphabetic order whereas German Michel uses a geographical classification.
[edit] History
During the 1890 in Amiens, Yvert family's printing works is the property of Louis Yvert, grand-son of the founder, and his chief printer Théodule Tellier; Tellier was associated in the company after the premature death of Louis' father. While Louis wants to end the legimist paper of his father, he discovers with Tellier the stamp collecting. Tellier, a philatelist, has already incorporated a small paper L'Écho de la timbrologie.
1895, Yvert and Tellier began the philatelic adventure and November 1896 they published a worldwide catalog of stamps and a stamp album. The success is immediate since their numbering is logic and permanent (at the time, catalog editors changed the number when discovering forgotten stamps).
1900, Yvert et Tellier associated with Paris stamp dealer Théodore Champion. He gave the editor prices of stamps since he sold unused stamps from all the world. After Champion's death in 1955, Pierre Yvert and brothers Ladislas and Alexandre Varga bought Champion's company and the new firm continued to give prices to Yvert.
April 1913, Tellier sold his parts to Louis Yvert because of the loss of his young grand-son. By friendship, Yvert decided that the catalog would continue to be names Yvert et Tellier.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Yvert prepared his two sons and his son-in-law to run the firm. Henri ran the printing works, his brother Pierre directed L'Écho de la timbrologie, and Jacques Gervais run the editor.
Since 1990's, Pierre Yvert's and Jacques Gervais' two grand-sons run the company.
[edit] Recent history
But, since 2001, Dallay catalog has a major effect on the French philatelist public by giving larger stamp pictures and information as name of the drawer and engraver, date of issue, use, etc. Yvert has been fighting on two fronts :
- it has made justice declared its copyright on its numerotation,
- it sells a free CD-ROM with its French stamp catalog.
March 2005 urging by the French Conseil de la concurrence, Yvert agree to sell to other publishers the right to print the Yvert stamp numbers at the end of their catalogues.
June 2006 Yvert publish a new catalogue of French stamps, a cheaper pocket book with just pictures and prices. At the same time, so do Cérès, the second main philatelic éditor in France.
[edit] See also
[edit] Bibliography
- Yvert et Tellier. 100 ans d'histoire, ed. Yvert et Tellier, 1996.
