L'Écho de la timbrologie

L' Echo de la timbrologie is a monthly philatelic magazine from France. The first edition was in 1887, making it the oldest existing philatelic magazine from France. Your subtitle is " La tribune of Philatelistes " ( the tribune of the philatelists ).

The first issue brought Edmond Frémy out on 15 November 1887, a philatelist from Douai in northern France. 1890 Frémy was by his health forced her to leave the stamp collector Théodule Tellier, the printer was printing the Yvert, in which the L' Écho was printed.

In 1895, when Louis Yvert Tellier 's business partner decided to found his very entrepreneurial activity to focus on philately, Yvert be operated as a chief editor of L' Echo de la timbrologie and his descendants continued the magazine. His son Pierre Yvert they took over since 1930, his grandson Jean Yvert 1955 and Benoît Gervais since the 1990s.

It is brought out by the company, based in Amiens Yvert et Tellier, they also prints. The editorial office is located in Paris.

In addition to the timbre magazine, which debuted in 2000, is the L' Echo de la timbrologie one of the two largest newspapers in the region in France.

Since 1996, the company also brings out the magazine Atouts timbres. This appears mostly in black / white print and the target group should be a younger audience than that of L' Écho. Meanwhile, however, they reached the established collectors.

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• Yvert et Tellier. Cent ans d' histoire. Amiens, France, Yvert et Tellier 1996

• Philatelic Literature
• Magazine (France)