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The Charlton Press began over 50 years ago in Toronto, Canada, when the first numismatic price guide was published, the 1952 Catalogue of Canadian Coins, Tokens & Fractional Currency. The cover price on that first edition was 50-cents. Through the fifties and into the sixties the catalogue under went a name change or two settling into THE STANDARD CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN COINS. It was the birth of the standard and what was soon to become the bible of Canadian coins, with over a million copies in print. The original guide is now divided into four catalogues: COINS, TOKENS, GOVERNMENT PAPER MONEY and CHARTER BANK NOTES. To supplement the STANDARD in 1962, the Press began publishing a dealers buying guide (The Charlton Coin Guide). With the bouyant coin market of the time this guide soon was selling tens of thousands of copies. Beside numismatic books, the early years saw the publishing of Lymans, a Canadian stamp catalogue and, of course the stamp albums that were need to accompany it. It is interesting to note that Lymans was the first four-color stamp catalogue published in North America. In 1981 with the formal registration of the CHARLTON PRESS the first edition of the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Royal Doulton Figurines was released. This catalogue was to be the beginning of a series of guides on 20th Century English ceramic collectables. It is interesting now, when nearly forty years later, to note that this series is classified by the current reviewers and collectors as bibles in their fields.

 

Address: The Charlton Press, PO Box 820, Station Willowdale B , North York, Ontario M2K 2R1, Canada
Telephone: 416-488-1418
Fax: 416-488-4656
Website: http://www.charltonpress.com/