British Empire Study Group FREE Zoom Presentation 03-07 6PM

Same for me Chris - hope to be there !

René

Drat & blast! I'll have to wait for the program to show up on YouTube - I registered for the seminar in the hopes that I would make it as scheduled but I failed in that regard. I await with interest!

Ryan

I thought it was an excellent talk. Highly recommend everyone check out the YouTube re-broadcast when it's posted.

Of the 19 editions that Robin Harris was editor, I only owned 4-5 versions. But I was always impressed with how they were laid out and improved year over year. I love how he keeps adding things that make the catalogue easier for novice collectors to navigate, and yet continues to add more and more specialist information as well.

I don't have a huge knowledge of single country catalogues but I am bold enough to rate Unitrade as one of the very best.

I was fascinated to see his process for creating the catalogue! I imagine the Scott world catalogues are similar -- 100% built for print copies only. His design choices make for an excellent printed catalogue, but I can now see how it would be an almost complete redesign / rebuild to create a robust, dynamic, searchable website like Colnect and why it's an investment companies are wary of making.

Creating a page in the catalogue isn't (conceptually) much different than creating a stamp album page. And knowing how many typos I can make on a single album page, it's a wonder that the catalogue is as accurate as it is. It's a testament to the editor's eye for detail.

And it's not lost on me how precarious these publications are. The history he gave of past Canadian catalogues was so interesting, especially since many of the titles were short lived or infrequently updated. The consistency with how Unitrade was updated annually is something I took for granted.

Yeesh, I'm going on a bit. All this to say, be sure to watch the broadcast!