The 1895 Scott catalog was a hardbound edition of over 500 pages. The Scott catalog began as J. Walter Scott’s price list, and by 1880 had grown into an annual catalog that listed all the stamps of the world that had been issued to that time, whether Scott had them in stock or not. By 1895, the Scott firm was largely out of the business of stamp dealing and had become a publishing company. Their products consisted of an early hardbound version of the Scott International album, which had spaces for all of the stamps listed in the Scott catalog and the Scott catalog itself and by 1895 had grown into a pretty impressive piece of work.
The 1895 catalog listed all of the postage stamps that had been issued by sovereign nations up to that point. The United States section listed all of the special areas that are today reserved for the US specialized catalog including post office provisionals, stationery, locals, and revenues. The biggest difference between the Scott catalog of 1895 and the Scott catalog of today is the fact that Scott used to list the Postal Stationary of worldwide countries until the earliest years of this century. These stamps were not only listed by Scott, but the International album that Scott produced had spaces for the Cut Squares of these Stationary issues as well.
Prices in 1895, as you can imagine, were much lower than they are today. More interesting, the ratio of prices to one another has changed considerably, indicating ascending or declining popularity of certain areas of philately relative to each other. For instance, in 1895 a US #1 cataloged for 75