Colour Guides: Lot of different Guides – National Philatelical Society New York: A Color Chart designed to illustrate and identify the colors of postage stamps (1884), 79 page with 70 pages of different colours and shades, hardbound. Good condition. As far as it is known this is the first philatelic colour guide in the world! Rare. PLUS: Stanley Gibbons' Colour Guide for Stamp Collectors (Improved edition 1922): included are 100 sample ‘stamps’ produced by Perkins Bacon. In total six editions of this Colour Guide exist, all with the same 100 sample-facsimiles, but with different front and back covers. This item is one of the first three editions. Good condition. PLUS: Horadam's Patent Aquarellfarben publ. by H. Schmincke & Co. Düsseldorf, Künstlerfarbenfabrik, without date, six pages with printed ‘strips’ of different colours & shades, pages are good, the binding is loose. PLUS: The Prang Standard of Color, publ. by Louis Prang, Boston (1899), with seven large format colour plates with shades plus a six page article, softcover with very decorative title (format ca. 36 x 26 cm), good condition. PLUS: Helsingfors Frimärkssamlare Förening r.f.: Farbenkarte, die sich an die 6. Auflage von Finnland I Briefmarken anschließt (ca. 1934, in German language), without page numbers, ca. 11 pages with about 160 different colours/shades, softcover; fair condition. PLUS: Schwaneberger Verlag / MICHEL - three colour guides (21. edition 1956; an earlier edition and the 34. edition. A rare ensemble. Estimate: 300 Euro
