rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on May 4, 2024 7:53:14 GMT
Vintage Continent Title Pages Recently acquired just for the art work. May we have a close up of the left, and right hand, scripts at lower page please? Looks like Charles Lemmel illustrator. ? (France)  |
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Post by daniel on May 4, 2024 13:36:01 GMT
Hi rod222, they are all engraved by the German engraver Martin Læmmel (or Lämmel) who was born in Kulkwitz in the Leipzig district in 1849. |
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rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on May 4, 2024 14:21:53 GMT
Hi rod222 , they are all engraved by the German engraver Martin Læmmel (or Lämmel) who was born in Kulkwitz in the Leipzig district in 1849. Thank you. What a genius ! see his wood engraving here...mind boggling ! (And I thought the wood engraving of the Mulready envelope was good  ) link |
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on May 5, 2024 11:58:29 GMT
I am in the process of modifying a Steiner page uin LibreOffice Draw to create a page for Indonesian (Scott Netherland Indies) perforation varieties. Scott mixes listing (what is primary and what is suffix) but I think I will put all same perfs on same page. It looks like all issues except 4s have a perf variant and a couple of the higher values.   |
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Post by daniel on May 24, 2024 1:30:18 GMT
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Post by classicalstamps on Aug 30, 2024 11:42:21 GMT
It's been a while since I last posted here. I'm in the process of changing all my album pages from A4 to Stanley Gibbons paper as mentioned earlier. I thought I would share a few pages to illustrate before/after: Before: A4:   After, SG 248x283mm: Besides the larger paper, I made some subtle adjustments to make the pages more "pleasing on the eyes"   |
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angore
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Post by angore on Aug 31, 2024 10:30:14 GMT
Those qualify as literature....
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stanley64
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What I collect: Canada, USA, Netherlands, Portugal & Colonies, Antarctic Territories and anything that catches my eye...
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Post by stanley64 on Nov 1, 2024 11:11:24 GMT
For those that collect beyond the whole numbers listed in the respective catalogue, i.e. perforation varieties, colour differences, paper variations, errors, etc., it is almost a given that one needs to create their own pages. Even for blocks of 4 or more, including plate blocks, the lack of pre-printed pages requires a bit of DIY effort as in the following example shown here.
Originally, I had displayed the blocks based on their values, ½ p thru the 1/, but did not like the appearance of the 'totem pole' look of the pages given the space available. The idea was then to take a different or new approach and display the plate blocks based on the date of issue or chronologically. The results, at least to these eyes, was a much more visually appealing layout across the two pages.
How would your album's pages look if the material was shown based on date of issue rather than value? Do you mix and match, including so-called 'back of the book' material on the same page?
Displaying one's collection by date or perhaps what one could call the 'postal history approach', may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is an alternative...
Have fun and happy collecting!
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madbaker
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What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Nov 1, 2024 14:22:10 GMT
How would your album's pages look if the material was shown based on date of issue rather than value? Do you mix and match, including so-called 'back of the book' material on the same page? Displaying one's collection by date or perhaps what one could call the 'postal history approach', may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is an alternative... Have fun and happy collecting!
Yes! I agree with you 100%. I grouped some of my Sweden sets by date of issue and also by engraver, when the engraver changed over time. My Facit catalogue lists engravers so I took advantage of that detail.  If I go by the catalogue, I get a grid of stamps counting up by denomination. This is more interesting.
I like your phrase 'postal history approach'. I admit to being lazy, however. I am standing on the shoulders of giants. When the postal rates are in the catalogue, like they are in the Unitrade catalogue for Canada, or the excellent Swedish Definitives Blog, I'll use that information to organize things. I don't do much research beyond the first page of Google.    |
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madbaker
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What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Nov 11, 2024 2:08:41 GMT
Time to express some gratitude for everyone who has posted in this thread over the years. You are my rock. My lighthouse. My beacon of hope. My mixed metaphor kindred spirits  I spent most of the last 24 hours considering how to take a thematic approach to my Grand Tour collection. Instead of mounting my stamps chronologically, I wanted to tell each country's 'story' somehow. I thought of organizing each country's commemorative issues by a consistent set of categories, similar to how Wikipedia organizes articles about a country. History, Geography (including flora and fauna), Government and Politics, People, Economy and Culture. I created my outline, then tested it by looking at Wikipedia listings for Canada, Australia, Japan, Uganda and Uruguay. It started to make sense. Then I sat down with my outline and my Australia stockbook and...sat there. For an hour. Went for a walk and sat down again. Nothing. My theory didn't line up with the actual stamps. Lots of re-sorting but the story doesn't become any clearer. Stamp issues from the 1920s are playing a different game than those issued in the 1990s. Combining them clashes too much. So I re-read all 37 pages of this thread to remind myself of what I like to do. I know what I like - just keep doing that, Marko! |
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