Alfred Potiquet

Alfred Potiquet was a French civil servant who is responsible for the first illustrated stamp catalog in the world.

Alfred Potiquet developed his stamp catalog on the basics of postage stamps and postal stationery directory of the Strasbourg bookseller Oscar Berger- Levrault. Although this is considered the first stamp catalog in the world, but still had no pictures of stamps and was not intended for the public. However, Alfred Potiquet knew this stamp directory not only with pictures. He added numerous issues that have been overlooked by Oscar Berger- Levrault and improved his mistakes.

His work was finally published in December 1861 in Paris under the title " Catalogue des timbres - poste crees dans les divers états du globe". 1080 Stamps and Postal Stationery 132 have been enrolled in it. Error free this greatly improved stamp catalog was still not. For example, lacking any information about then-unknown stamps, such as the Red and Blue Mauritius.

In addition to this stamp catalog of Oscar Berger- Levrault and Alfred Potiquet created parallel to this in England a similar work by John Edward Gray.