''L'Écho de la timbrologie'' is a French monthly

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and

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. First published in 1887, it is the French oldest surviving philatelic publication. Its subtitle is "La tribune des philatélistes" (the philatelists' tribune). First published on 15 November 1887 by Edmond Frémy, a philatelist of

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in Northern France. In 1890, his health forced him to let the magazine to printer and stamp collector

Théodule Tellier Théodule Tellier (circa 1856 – March 1922) was a French printer and the co-founder with Louis Yvert of French philatelic publisher Yvert et Tellier. He participated in its publication from 1895 to 1913. Biography In 1879 in Amiens, Telli ...

, whose printing plant Yvert had been ''L'Échos printer. In 1895, when

Louis Yvert Louis Yvert (born 24 June 1866 in Paris and died 17 April 1950 in Amiens) was the co-founder of French philatelic publisher Yvert et Tellier with printer Théodule Tellier, from the family-printing company established in the 1830s by his grandfa ...

, Tellier's associate, decided to give all his entrepreneur's energy to philately, he became the editor-in-chief of ''L'Écho de la timbrologie'' and his descendants ruled the publications too; his son

Pierre Yvert Pierre Yvert (30 September 1900 – 13 January 1964) was a French philatelic editor. Son of Louis Yvert, one of Yvert et Tellier's founders, he was manager of magazine ''L'Écho de la timbrologie'' and of many philatelic associations. Biogr ...

in the 1930s, his grandson Jean Yvert in 1955, and Benoît Gervais since the 1990s. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, it is published by an

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-based company where

Yvert et Tellier Yvert et Tellier is a postage stamp dealer and a philatelic publishing company founded in 1895 in the northern French city of Amiens, where the head office is still located. The logo is a circle divided into a snowflake and a smiling sun. It is a ...

prints the magazine. Its editorial staff works in

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. With '' Timbres magazine'', founded in 2000, ''L'Écho de la timbrologie'' is one of the two main French philatelic publications. Since 1996, a weekly philatelic paper, ''Atouts timbres'', is published by the same company. Printed mainly in black and white, it is mainly aimed at a younger audience than ''L'Écho'', but has finally been adopted by established collectors.

Sources and references

* (1996) ''Yvert et Tellier. Cent ans d'histoire''. Amiens, France, Yvert et Tellier.

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