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Post by angore on Oct 18, 2021 10:40:00 GMT
Is there a summary list of all the catalog codes? It took a while me to understand the term "catalog codes" and it the code of the country in a catalog.
For example, in Stamp Number catalog (Scott), the catalog code for British Guiana is GB-GY but in Michel and others it is GY. This is because some catalog lump all emissions in one country group while others may split.
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Post by djcmh on Oct 18, 2021 13:26:36 GMT
Is there a summary list of all the catalog codes? It took a while me to understand the term "catalog codes" and it the code of the country in a catalog. For example, in Stamp Number catalog (Scott), the catalog code for British Guiana is GB-GY but in Michel and others it is GY. This is because some catalog lump all emissions in one country group while others may split. I do not think we have made a summary list of codes since the codes are not usually used in isolation but assigned to a postal administration already. Could probably have an index created but not quite sure what the use for an index would be within the catalogue.
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 21, 2021 12:46:54 GMT
Colnect Question.. Task: Find a specific catalog number for a country Example: I want to see the record for United States Sn 1053. Selected United States If I do a search using "1053" from the above view I see multiple years. Colnect is presenting any catalog (Sn, Michel, etc) so one has to guess what year has the desired Sn 1053. So I have to guess. So let's try another way. Let's select "catalogs" and see if I can filter.... I then select "Stamp Number" then enter 1053 in search field. What you get is the same result where you get hits for all 1053 catalog numbers, The question is how do I get to "US Sn 1053". It would be nice to be able to enter somewhere [Country code] [Catalog [catalog number]. There must be a better way but it is not obvious to me.
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Post by djcmh on Nov 21, 2021 13:31:50 GMT
Click advanced search and in the pop up fill in the appropriate cateories, and should take you to exact stamp.
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 21, 2021 13:52:01 GMT
I checked and do not see a spot for the catalog number (see below).
Advanced search Countries United States of America Emissions Formats Printings Perforations Colors Gums Designers Printers Widths Heights Years Face Values Currencies Themes Catalogs Stamp Number
Even after adding the above information then add 1053 to search on next screen I get results for all catalogs although Stamp Number was first.
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Post by tobben63 on Nov 21, 2021 16:24:52 GMT
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Post by Mick on Nov 21, 2021 20:57:08 GMT
Within Colnect, there is no way to specify that a stamp in your collection is on cover, is there? I don't see that as an option.
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Post by djcmh on Nov 22, 2021 2:05:38 GMT
Within Colnect, there is no way to specify that a stamp in your collection is on cover, is there? I don't see that as an option. there is a blank spot next to each condition symbol that allows users to add notes, so you could mark the stamp as used and then add note "on cover". There is not, however, a specific "on cover" condition marking at the present time.
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Post by angore on Nov 23, 2021 10:49:11 GMT
tobben63Thanks for the reply. I see the same thing which means you see ALL "1053" (Scott, SG, Micehl, etc). This is why you see 6 results (year view or image view) rather than just 1 as there is only ONR Sn1053, I suspect Colnect does not have the logic so you can just enter a country, a catalog, and a number and the result is just one issue and not see what other catalogs use.
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Post by djcmh on Nov 23, 2021 15:24:55 GMT
tobben63 Thanks for the reply. I see the same thing which means you see ALL "1053" (Scott, SG, Micehl, etc). This is why you see 6 results (year view or image view) rather than just 1 as there is only ONR Sn1053, I suspect Colnect does not have the logic so you can just enter a country, a catalog, and a number and the result is just one issue and not see what other catalogs use. I will suggest to the developers to add catalogue code to the advanced search tool. I thought it was included Though I guess I would ask is having to look at six listings for example to find the Scott one problematic?
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Post by angore on Nov 24, 2021 10:51:48 GMT
djcmh It is obviously not a showstopper by any means but seems like such a basic feature. It seems so basic there must be some fundamental reason why it is not offered, In my old job, I would open a severity 3 defect - not a showstopper, has a workaround. Of course, the design team would say it is a feature request! I worked on both sides (development lead first then test lead).
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Post by Mr. H on Jan 14, 2022 14:24:06 GMT
The Colnect website stopped working on my Ipad yesterday. Works fine on my IPhone. IPad is updated and cache have been cleaned up. Anyone have any thoughts on what to do?
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 14, 2022 14:41:53 GMT
Colnect is working fine on my iPad. When was the last time you updated or re-booted your iPad? That usually fixes any problems I see. Hopefully it'll fix yours too.
Peter
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Post by Mr. H on Jan 14, 2022 14:55:33 GMT
It's updated as far as it will go IOS 12.5.5. I've rebooted several times. It worked just fine on Wednesday night, now this is all I get.
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 14, 2022 15:11:27 GMT
Mr. H - I'm on 15.3 beta 2 as I type.
Is that an old iPad? That MIGHT be the reason, but a website should load on a browser. Maybe check your VPN or Safari extensions.
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Post by biglavalamp on Jan 14, 2022 17:22:14 GMT
I have the same problem with Colnect with my first generation iPad (which annoyingly cannot be updated) a reboot didn't work for me ,but I would like to know if you get it sorted another way.
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Post by djcmh on Jan 14, 2022 23:54:07 GMT
The Colnect website stopped working on my Ipad yesterday. Works fine on my IPhone. IPad is updated and cache have been cleaned up. Anyone have any thoughts on what to do? I see you posted issue on Colnect support forum. I would suggest posting a followup with technical info on your IPad (was there a system update??) and screenshots showing what you see I myself am strictly PC/Android based so not really able to help with Apple issues.
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2022 5:11:44 GMT
A little update on some things going on at Colnect We have introduced a new interface for the main page that allows the creation of sub-groups for a country, which you access by clicking on the blue V symbol to the right of the name. This allows a bit more streamlining of the main country page interface. For those that prefer to see each listing separately (the way the country listing used to be) you can easily set the display that way by marking a box in your user settings under "Your Account" The process of creating sub-groups for revenue stamp listings has now been completed - we now have separate revenue stamp "countries" for 240 administrations, and as more new revenue countries are added they will be made into separate sub-groups. This is a great new feature in that it allows revenue stamps to use the full range of organization features, in particular the "series" field, to keep different kinds of revenue stamps organized. The full listing of revenue stamps can be seen here : colnect.com/en/stamps/countries/emission/29-Revenue over 21000 different listings already, and anyone who wants to help Colnect build the "Global Revenue Catalogue for the 21st Century" please contact me as we are looking for volunteers. The process of sub-grouping is next going to be extended to Cinderella and Illegal stamps, so that rather than have these issues in one Cinderella "Ghetto" as we currently do, with each country restricted to one series, cinderella stamps will be able to have their own separate series per country, which again will be great for organization. We are starting with the many illegal stamp issues claiming to come from various African countries, and have already started by sub-grouping Chad's Illegals within the Chad Category. colnect.com/en/stamps/years/country/1382-Chad_Illegal_StampsWe are also nearing completion of the Watermark overhaul project, creating a standardized naming system for watermarks (previously there had been no standard system so that some watermarks had upwards of a dozen or more slightly different names for the same watermark). We are hoping to complete this project in the next month or so. As always if you have any questions or issues, just post here or send me a message here or over at Colnect. Gene
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2022 5:15:09 GMT
Here is a screenshot showing the main country page interface with the new sub-grouping, showing some open sub-groups in the Germany area. Clicking on a blue V to the right of a country name opens up any subgroups listed under that country (the main listing is for postage stamps of that country).
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angore
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Post by angore on Jan 22, 2022 21:27:51 GMT
I grow to appreciate the usefulness of Colnect more every day.
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Post by biglavalamp on Jan 23, 2022 21:00:37 GMT
Totally agree angore ......I am seriously thinking of taking out a subscription instead of using ebay
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 25, 2022 0:11:51 GMT
I recently used Colnect to purchase a set of Belgian occupation stamps from a seller - it was simple, easy, and very well informed. At all stages I knew exactly what was happening and what I was getting... I keep finding new things to keep me going with the site!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 25, 2022 8:53:10 GMT
As a seller ( and buyer) on Colnect I'm very pleased with the system. As a seller I could wish there was a sorting option on the sales list, but I have found a way to work around it. The fact that there is no fee (to Colnect) is just fantastic. But I also wish there was a possibility for the seller to se a minimum by (in €, £ , $ or anny valuta). That will prevent buyers who only purchase 1 or 2 stamps for €0.05. Its hard cover the Paypal fee as it seems to be minimum €0.45.
If Colnect starts to take a fee, I hope they improve the site with the above mentioned issues. But overall it is a fantastic site to sell from, last three monts I have sold more than 7000 single stamps.
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Post by angore on Jan 26, 2022 15:05:14 GMT
Here is another Colnect observation.
I am working on identifying some Indochina material and not familiar with it. Unlike Scott, Colnect puts the French offices in China under China which I actually like but since trained in Scott I looked in France first.
Many of the French offices are just overprinted Indochina issues but you will not see them listed as variants section in the Indochina. It looks like variants are listed to just the grouping. Now, for the French offices, every office is in a different group so not easy was to do a cross search.
In the current example, I was hoping to net out the French offices variants for the 2c Annamite girl quickly.
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Post by djcmh on Jan 26, 2022 22:37:49 GMT
Here is another Colnect observation. I am working on identifying some Indochina material and not familiar with it. Unlike Scott, Colnect puts the French offices in China under China which I actually like but since trained in Scott I looked in France first. Many of the French offices are just overprinted Indochina issues but you will not see them listed as variants section in the Indochina. It looks like variants are listed to just the grouping. Now, for the French offices, every office is in a different group so now easy was to do a cross search. In the current example, I was hoping to net out the French offices variants for the 2c Annamite girl quickly. In general the practice has been only to link variants within a postal administration, and not link for example over prints that create stamps for another postal administration, since that would potentially lead to huge variant groupings in some examples. That being said, with the planned revamping of variants under review, thinking of ways to link over prints in a way separate from strict technical variants is being looked at for the future.
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Post by angore on Feb 9, 2022 11:37:08 GMT
I spent some a lot of timing using Colnect. Here are some comments.
I primarily use Colnect to use the images to identify stamps where I usually know the country. For the past week I have been working in the Vietnams (North, South, Viet Minh, NLF)
1. If you start at the stamps home page, I always have to select "Countries". There is an entry box for "Catalog code". You can enter a country code (like VN for Vietnam) and a number and get results from all catalogs for that number, It would be convenient to just to be able to add the country directly from this page.
2, For Vietnams, if you type in Vietnam you see "Vietnam" and "South Vietnam" is nested under Vietnam. The Viet Minh issues are in the main Vietnam section. However. the NLF issues are now shown. You have to search for "vietcong" or "National Liberation Front" for these to show up.
I wonder why they are not listed as a subgroup of Vietnam when you search for Vietnam like South Vietnam
3. For me for a country I have no experience, the images are very important. I primarily search by face value to get all images and then scroll through to find a match. I noticed however all images are not always shown and it appears to be related to variants (similar image stamps).
Example. I was looking for VN Scott 806 (has a blue background) but only VN854 is shown with a different background color.
3. When looking at list for a country, Colnect has an option to sort by catalog code but when I search on a catalog code the catalog listed is not the first result, I am not sure how this is supposed to work.
With the above noted, Colnect has been an invaluable resource since it really helps when finding issues not in Scott (my primary catalog).
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Post by djcmh on Feb 9, 2022 14:30:28 GMT
I spent some a lot of timing using Colnect. Here are some comments. I primarily use Colnect to use the images to identify stamps where I usually know the country. For the past week I have been working in the Vietnams (North, South, Viet Minh, NLF) 1. If you start at the stamps home page, I always have to select "Countries". There is an entry box for "Catalog code". You can enter a country code (like VN for Vietnam) and a number and get results from all catalogs for that number, It would be convenient to just to be able to add the country directly from this page. 2, For Vietnams, if you type in Vietnam you see "Vietnam" and "South Vietnam" is nested under Vietnam. The Viet Minh issues are in the main Vietnam section. However. the NLF issues are now shown. You have to search for "vietcong" or "National Liberation Front" for these to show up. I wonder why they are not listed as a subgroup of Vietnam when you search for Vietnam like South Vietnam 3. For me for a country I have no experience, the images are very important. I primarily search by face value to get all images and then scroll through to find a match. I noticed however all images are not always shown and it appears to be related to variants (similar image stamps). Example. I was looking for VN Scott 806 (has a blue background) but only VN854 is shown with a different background color. 3. When looking at list for a country, Colnect has an option to sort by catalog code but when I search on a catalog code the catalog listed is not the first result, I am not sure how this is supposed to work. With the above noted, Colnect has been an invaluable resource since it really helps when finding issues not in Scott (my primary catalog). 1 - I think having the catalogue code search is meant to be a shortcut if you already know the catalogue number. You can jump to the full country by clicking on the country name at the top of the search results where it says Country : Vietnam (any term in blue in a search is clickable and can be used to either further refine search listings (if clicked within a listing for a single stamp) or escape to the main listings for that element - so click Vietnam at the top will take you to the full country listing 2- odd the stamp is in the catalogue with the Scott number assigned : colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/231-Vietnam/series/369967-Orchids_Lunar_New_Year/catalog_code/806 and it has an image and it is linked to 854 so not sure what happened to your search, it should have come up. We try to have images for all listings but there are things we simply do not have images, so we do at least try to provide details to help in separating variants if needed 3 - The order the results of a specific catalogue code number search seems to be set to sort based on the hierarchy of catalogues in the system. Michel is first, Scott second, Yvert third, Gibbons fourth. That is just how the catalogues got indexed when Colnect was first created. That might be a hard-coded thing in the system, I will have to ask the developers. All i can say is look for Sn that matches the catalog number you search for.
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Post by eggdog on Feb 14, 2022 4:11:26 GMT
Here's one that stumped me. A few days ago, I started to make a catalog for Syria, but I abandoned the project. While I was there, though, I decided to start a list of writers - one of the few topical areas I go after. Syria has precious few writers on its stamps, but one of them is Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (which Scott misspells as Kawakbi). A stamp for him came out in 1960. At that time, Syria was part of the United Arab Republic. Colnect skips these stamps; its listings for Syria end at 1958 and resume in late 1961, when Syria withdrew from the UAR. I could find the stamp by typing in its catalog number - 37 (Scott lists Syria-UAR in a separate section at the end of its Syria listings and gives them their own sequential numbers starting with 1, no letter prefix) - and going through all the 37s until I recognized the stamp. From there I could add it in to my "Writers" list. But I could find no way to get to the United Arab Republic directly. Looking around briefly, I found how I could get to the Guanacaste listings under Costa Rica, and the Croat or Serbian parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I could not find the "Arab Government" that was one of the constituent parts of Syria as it was being reorganized as a French colony. I understand that some of these places are pretty obscure and maybe Colnect simply isn't able to get to every place yet, but I was wondering why, if the Kawakibi stamp was in Colnect, there is no direct way to get to it or to Syria-UAR. Searching by catalog number could get old after a while, especially if I needed to find a stamp from the Syrian Arab Government, because it's an overprint that looks like every other damned overprint that was ever overprinted!
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Post by angore on Feb 14, 2022 11:14:33 GMT
Interesting. I knew about the Egypt UAR issues but did not know about the Syrian varieties since I did not collect them.
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Post by djcmh on Feb 14, 2022 17:27:20 GMT
Here's one that stumped me. A few days ago, I started to make a catalog for Syria, but I abandoned the project. While I was there, though, I decided to start a list of writers - one of the few topical areas I go after. Syria has precious few writers on its stamps, but one of them is Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (which Scott misspells as Kawakbi). A stamp for him came out in 1960. At that time, Syria was part of the United Arab Republic. Colnect skips these stamps; its listings for Syria end at 1958 and resume in late 1961, when Syria withdrew from the UAR. I could find the stamp by typing in its catalog number - 37 (Scott lists Syria-UAR in a separate section at the end of its Syria listings and gives them their own sequential numbers starting with 1, no letter prefix) - and going through all the 37s until I recognized the stamp. From there I could add it in to my "Writers" list. But I could find no way to get to the United Arab Republic directly. Looking around briefly, I found how I could get to the Guanacaste listings under Costa Rica, and the Croat or Serbian parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I could not find the "Arab Government" that was one of the constituent parts of Syria as it was being reorganized as a French colony. I understand that some of these places are pretty obscure and maybe Colnect simply isn't able to get to every place yet, but I was wondering why, if the Kawakibi stamp was in Colnect, there is no direct way to get to it or to Syria-UAR. Searching by catalog number could get old after a while, especially if I needed to find a stamp from the Syrian Arab Government, because it's an overprint that looks like every other damned overprint that was ever overprinted! Syria's UAR stamps are directly integrated with Syria. The UAR issues are listed separately by Scott and Michel but are kept integrated in the main Syria listings by Gibbons and Yvert. Since Syria is in the "French" sphere Colnect follows the French organization in this case. Not sure why your listings were skipping the UAR issues of Syria, since there are Scott numbers assigned for Syria. Note though that Scott listings for the UAR Syria listings use the country code SY-UA since the plain SY code is used by Scott for just Syria issues. So have to differentiate between SY 37 and SY-UA 37 for the two Scott listings. Arab kingdom issues are also integrated into main Syria listings. Scott separates them from the main Syria listings, but the others don't, so again Scott's method of organization makes it the "odd man out"
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