Homemade Album Pages - A.w.n.

Love it, BeeSee!!

Nice Layout BeeSee!

Hi BeeSee,

I really like what you've done on that stamp album page. Very nice.

Is the margin decoration in your top and bottom margins something you drew up in autocad, or was it a canned decoration?

I'm doing mine in Adobe illustrator. So far so good. I'll post a sample when I next do a page.

Dave.

Tasmania both as a colony and as a state released quite a few stamp issues before the kangaroo and map issues of the A. Commonwealth:

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If you had to pick some of these I would pick their pictorial series (the last 6) as they are ususally not very expensive, they are very attractive and they are one of the first ever picturial stamps.

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I like the first two, perf

I got this recently for a good price:




Dave, I did draw up the border myself in AutoCAD. I shall be looking forward to your pages. I will be posting my latest (Upper Silesia) shortly.

Very nice! BeeSee! I collect postmarks from different, mostly closed down, PO's on Tasmanian pictorials, so I have a soft spot for that issue...altough they are getting harder and harder to find at a reasonable price, if they are rated.

BeeSee - I appreciate the effort you are putting into your presentation pages and believe that the final results will (at some distant future date?) be well worth it.

Here's two examples of my pages, which are simplistic in comparison to yours, but follow the same format I've been using for 20+ years now. The first image was created many, many years ago and the second is quite recent.

I use 110 pound white card stock paper with black ink jet printing and Hawid mounts. I've not noticed any damage to any of my stamps (99.8% mint) using these materials, contained in 76 2" 3 "D" ring binders.

Both images have lost some clarity and the paper appears to be darker due to scanning at low resolution then reducing to meet the 90 KB rule.

Very nice layout BlackJag.

Do you have that amount of detail on each of your Canadian stamp album pages?

Perf14 can I talk you into showing some of the Tasmania stamps separately and bigger. I would love to see the early ones from that page. - Jeff

Thanks Dave9911 - Yes. I create a separate page for each variety of every issue (booklet, pane, souvenir sheet, gutter, etc.) and create a box for the different known types of paper, gum, fluorescence and tagging as well as every known error of each type included on the appropriate page as well. Obviously some varieties of the issue have many pages.

I also use scanned images to highlight in greater detail the stamp(s) on the page.

Very nice pages Blackjag

You are really up-to-date, the Forest issue aready done!

Hi Bee See



I tried white and it was just too much "glare". Finally settled on an off white and it is much nicer and easier on the eyes. One thing I did was to take a couple of stamps in black Showgard mounts to my printer and laid them on different "white" stock to pick a paper color.

Great job on what you have. I have a question not knowing AutoCad. If you do a layout and the only thing in color on the page is the flag and you print on a color laser printer, would it not come out in black with color for only the flag

Jerry B

I agree with you Jerry. Especially after seeing some of Dianne's pages, I finally settled for off-white, as per this Upper Silesia page in my AWN collection.

Gee,

You guys are doing really nice work on those album pages. For my Canadian collection, I'm trying to add more informative content, but not sure I will ever reach the level of detail in BlackJag's very nice pages. Aiming for something along the lines of BeeSee's work.

Dave.