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David F. wrote in article
... snip Sorry if I did not make myself clear. I know that some catalogue publishers also publish albums but your message did not refer to the first of these activities while your subject line mentioned nothing else. As a catalogue publisher myself I found your subject line confusing. None of the follow-up posts had any relevance for a catalogue publisher. Douglas Hey, Douglas - what about publishing a multi-part Album to hold all of the listed Machins in your Catalogue? Would it be possible? There could be a big market for something like that! David. I have considered this possibility in the past but have always decided against it. Among the reasons is the fact that some listed items are rare or scarce and to have spaces for them in a pre-printed album would simply draw attention to the woeful inadequacy of one's collection grin. This is why I invented the concept of Profiles. These are stamp-sized bits of paper which contain, in a standard format, all the textual information that makes one stamp different from another. They also contain visual information such as the phosphor layout and the exact perforation gauge plus ellipses where present. Each listed stamp has its own Profile. Profiles are then treated in exactly the same way as the stamps and mounted alongside them. Blank or computer-designed pages can be used but I prefer stock sheets (or split mounts for mint stamps) myself. This system is extremely flexible, if you don't have a stamp you don't use the Profile. (You can put these unused Profiles into another stock book and use it as a portable wants list.) If you later obtain a listed stamp you simply move the stamps to make room. `Move the stamp, move its Profile.' Douglas (Re-posted as it has not appeared on my server.) |
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Hey, Douglas - what about publishing a multi-part Album to hold
all of the listed Machins in your Catalogue? Would it be possible? There could be a big market for something like that! David. I have considered this possibility in the past but have always decided against it. Among the reasons is the fact that some listed items are rare or scarce and to have spaces for them in a pre-printed album would simply draw attention to the woeful inadequacy of one's collection grin. This is why I invented the concept of Profiles. These are stamp-sized bits of paper which contain, in a standard format, all the textual information that makes one stamp different from another. They also contain visual information such as the phosphor layout and the exact perforation gauge plus ellipses where present. Each listed stamp has its own Profile. Profiles are then treated in exactly the same way as the stamps and mounted alongside them. Blank or computer-designed pages can be used but I prefer stock sheets (or split mounts for mint stamps) myself. This system is extremely flexible, if you don't have a stamp you don't use the Profile. (You can put these unused Profiles into another stock book and use it as a portable wants list.) If you later obtain a listed stamp you simply move the stamps to make room. `Move the stamp, move its Profile.' Douglas Regarding the "rarer" stamps - All of my GB Albums have a space for the SG.43: Penny Red Plate 77, but how many of us will ever have one? I think an Album which shows a complete listing is preferable to a cut-down one, along the lines of "Collect British Stamps", which leaves so many QV Classic variations out! As the old punchline goes - 'it was there if you needed it'. Regards, David. |
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