Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Oct 4, 2020 10:19:24 GMT
You are fast approaching the "for the specialist" area. These questions can become hypothesis for researching articles or even a book. You need a lot of material / images to go there :-) Myself, I collect high res. images of certified genuine stamps for this very purpose. Thanks for your latest comment, Morten. It raises an interesting point, so I have decided to use it to start a new thread, rather than hijack the one about the Thurn & Taxis postmarks. Where do you go to collect high-resolution images? Do you request them from other collectors or dealers directly, or do you search the internet looking for them? Perhaps on reference sites, or auction/sales sites? This is an area that I have also started to explore, which started with my trying to find high-quality images of COGH triangles to replace those deleted by a former member. I started with big-name auction sites, but I now mainly search Hip Stamp and eBay, but in those cases, I have to sift through a lot of really poor quality images to find a few good ones. In addition, the more I learn in the process, the more mis-identifications I am finding, too. In any case, it is of real interest to me, and I look forward to hearing your comments. Many thanks!  |
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Post by classicalstamps on Oct 4, 2020 10:54:28 GMT
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Post by classicalstamps on Oct 4, 2020 11:04:15 GMT
I store everything in Evernote. Each "note" contains everything I have about a specific stamp. So it can have multiple images, text etc. I name all notes according to <country>, <optional description>, <catalog no.> so things are easy to find. I have more than 25000 notes. PDf-files, articles, whole websites are also cataloged using the same method. So when I look at "Greece" for example, I have everything immediately available at my fingertips:  Evernote is on all my devices, so I bring my reference library with me  |
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Post by henrye on Oct 5, 2020 2:41:28 GMT
You can't beat having good reference material.
For the ones that don't have any high res images available, what programs seem to work best to get images like those you posted? The stamps seem to be virtually invisible, leaving the cancellations untouched. I have tried photoshop but don't get anything like that.
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Post by stanley64 on Oct 5, 2020 7:56:25 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Oct 5, 2020 10:08:46 GMT
Thanks for your replies, Vince ( stanley64 ) and Henry ( henrye ). I agree that this is a good subject for the discussion. Although the "why" part is absolutely part of the discussion, I would think we could establish pretty quickly why good references are important, and that the main points would be the "how" to do it parts: where to find the references, what to collect, how to store them in a way for easy access, etc. In this regard, I am wondering if we can persuade Morten ( classicalstamps ) to talk a bit to these points, as he clearly already has his own extensive reference library. Morten, any chance you would be willing to present something on your system for collecting references on one of the future Zoom meetings? Just my thoughts.... |
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Post by henrye on Oct 5, 2020 13:44:10 GMT
Quote away, Stan. |
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Post by classicalstamps on Oct 5, 2020 14:21:49 GMT
In this regard, I am wondering if we can persuade Morten ( classicalstamps ) to talk a bit to these points, as he clearly already has his own extensive reference library. Morten, any chance you would be willing to present something on your system for collecting references on one of the future Zoom meetings? Sure, I'll be happy to. If the time zone scheduling can be worked out.. |
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Post by stanley64 on Oct 8, 2020 15:13:20 GMT
Agreed Beryllium Guy, et al, the question of 'why' is likely self-explanatory to many, but spending some time to share the benefits of having good reference material in the collector's tool chest might be worth a moment or two. The majority of the ZOOM call though can focus on the 'where' and the 'what' as we do have a diverse group to draw from if the TSF thread " What's in your Library ?" is any indication. There are plenty of books, resources, and other on-line material out there depending on your collecting interests, so I think it should be a good discussion,
I look forward to the call on Saturday and hope you can join us...
Happy colelcting!
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