I also collect the catalogs and have at least one for every year they were published. I'm working on getting all 4 seasons for each year. I need 10 more catalogs and the collection will be complete I have a 1987 cataog and it is the holiday one. I believe this was the first catalog published. They first sold things for the Christmas Holidays so it would make sense they would use 1987. If anyone knows more and that there is a 1986 catalog I would love to know about it.