Timbres magazine

Timbres magazine is a French monthly magazine about philately and stamp collecting. It was established in 2000 by the merger of three previous publications: Timbroscopie and Timbroloisirs, both from the philatelic publisher Timbropresse, and Le Monde des philatélistes, from the Le Monde group.

In the 2000s, it was one of two major French philatelic magazines with L'Écho de la timbrologie.

Le Monde began publishing a weekly philately column in 1946. The columnist, Adalbert Vitalyos, obtained permission from Le Monde's founder Hubert Beuve-Méry to publish a separate magazine about stamps, Le Monde des philatélistes ("The World of Philatelists" or "Le Monde for Philatelists"), whose first edition came out in October 1951. Vitalyos was the editor-in-chief from 1953 to 1977, and continued to write a weekly column until 1986.

In 1954, the magazine took the subtitle L'officiel de la philatélie (the Philatelic Gazette) after it bought three other publications, one of which had this subtitle. In March 2000, when Le Monde des philatélistes ended its run, this became Timbres magazine's slogan.

Timbroscopie was the figurehead magazine of the publisher Timbropresse. Created by Georges Bartoli, it was published between March 1984 and March 2000 with the subtitle le magazine de la philatélie active (the Magazine of Active Philately).

Timbropresse's companion magazine for youth was Timbroloisirs, whose goal was to extend the readership of Timbroscopie to philatelic beginners as well as to give confirmed philatelists new ideas for reorganising collections (by country, topic, etc.). Timbroloisirs included detachable cardboard stamp albums for such reorganisations, an innovation continued by Timbres magazine after the merger. Timbroloisirs' goals were summarized in the subtitle le magazine des collectionneurs heureux (the Magazine of Happy Collectors).

In March 2000, after its 125th issue, Timbroloisirs was incorporated into Timbres magazine along with Le Monde des philatélistes and Timbroscopie.

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