Making My New Revenue Album

I finished my Match and Medicine album pages so now I'm off on a new project. One i'm going to need a little help with. As I fill my Scott revenue pages I'm running into the problem of how to accommodate color, plate varieties and silks. Right now I have a duplicate set of Scott pages to hold them. But I don't like it. It's too messy.

I like albums over stock books, vario pages and such.

I don't like the way Scott separates Imperfs, part perfs and perfs. I prefer to have one design per page, with room for perforation, paper and color varieties all on that page. I figure I can gang several designs plate varieties on subsequent pages. The large stamp graphic anchors the page design and allows me to create call-out illustrations for the plate varieties. Some pages will be well-filled, others will have a lot of white space like this R1 page. That doesn't bother me.

Right now I'm using the Boston Book, Scott Specialized, Shift Hunter Letters and Revenue-collector Dan's site for reference. What other sources of info can I use? I don't want to go too crazy with all the plate varieties, probably just the major ones.

Can I run the pages by our experts here as I get them done? Right now color and paper varieties are out of the Boston Book, probably only a good start. This is going to take a while...

Pick up The Revenue Unit Columns from the American Philatelist, edited by King, Bacharach and Turner. They cover the years 1928-1942 and are filled with information, including a lot not found anywhere else. About $45.

Thanks - I forgot, I just received Revenue Unit Columns today. Have barely cracked it open. It looks like a wealth of information though.

I'm no expert, but I'll weigh in by saying the pages are beautiful and well thought out. I look forward to seeing more. I tried to do something similar many years ago, before the advent of computers and printers, and was eventually hung up by the lack of size uniformity in the stamps, especially the imperfs and part perfs. The pages lost their symmetry after my stamps were mounted. But that's a personal, subjective hang-up. Also, I would find the Revenue Book color varieties to be a challenge because I have a very hard time telling what is a true color variety versus what is simply the result of fading, chemical change, etc., not to mention my inexperience and lack of understanding of what a particular color variety should actually look like. I'm usually comfortable with identifying an ultramarine and that's about it!

Beautiful Pages Southpaw. Great Job

Dianne

Southpaw - The pages are absolutely beautiful. Sorry to be the language police, but the stamps without perforations should be listed as "imperforate" not "imperforated." The sheet of stamps when printed is imperforate. Then, in a separate step, the stamps were perforated using a perforating machine.

Thanks for everybody's input so far. Thanks for pointing out "imperforate" vs "imperforated" SPQR. That's the kind of help I'm looking for. You can't have too many "eyes". Color is so subjective Rusty. I'll stick with the revenue tables in the Boston book to start but I'm sure there may be other suggestions as it's over a century old. The Boston book doesn't list the R1 silk in the table for instance. I'm just looking to have a place for any varieties I may run across.

Here is a very impressive and interesting hand made album: http://www.ebay.com/itm/381511073173?rmvSB=true

Looks like a lot of work went into it.

If you send me a snail mail address I'll send a copy of my plate varieties file with a few hundred 1st thru 3rd issue scans. It's the most complete list available, some minor and most all major plate varieties, 20 years in the making. You can pick and choose which to add to your album. Karl ktitle1@comcast.net

Many of the plate varieties from Karl's images (those that I could discern anyway) have been incorporated into my plate variety reference page:

http://www.revenue-collector.com/pl...ieties.shtml

Karl - that would be GREAT! I'll send my address. Dan, your site is an awesome reference, I use it all the time. Thank you so much for helping to educate us neophytes. This will be a long-term project and work-in-progress even when it is "finished".

Southpaw the pages look awesome. Seems you are putting in some work. Also revenuecollecter your pages are now bookmarked. Thanks for the information it should help me out on my revenues.

Newby

Karl - I received your CD with plate variety images - thanks so much! I see now many are present on Dan's site. These are perfect for me to incorporate into the pages. As I find other varieties, should I send scans your way?

Not just his way, but mine as well, if you don't mind.

I have been doing some emailing with Bart, Karl, and several other variety afficonados and would be happy to add you to the list.

These types of collaborative efforts have me wondering if I should start up either a small message board or mailing list on my site specifically for revenue collectors. I'm leaning towards the former, so people can post images, etc.

Just ruminating...

I would love to be added to the list. As a relative newb to the field I'm not sure how much I'll be able to contribute, but I'm out there looking and learning. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks. I'll be in Atlanta in 10 days and the following weekend in Knoxville. Hopefully I'll find some varieties.