Sg Page Layout Question

Hopefully this doesn't trample upon any proprietary toes....I bought a SG "Great Britain" single country album off the Bay, relatively old...supplemented up to 1980, since I only collect pre-1940 that was of no matter. Anyway, page 1 is missing, otherwise complete. Page 2 starts with the 1855-57 issues of SG numbers 70, 72, 62, 64, 66a, etc. So, what am I missing on page 1? I am assuming the standard issues of Scott #1-4, but it seems that SG must be skipping about pretty casually to cover much ground to get to the 60's on page 2! I will have to either make some custom page 1 when I determine what issues are supposed to be depicted, or does anyone know if SG's coverage of the earliest issues is "standardized", such as page 1. If so, can anyone send me a scan? Perhaps I could make directly from that if re-sized? Any advice appreciated. Hopefully not, "buy a complete set so you get a page 1!"

See image 4 on the attached. This is, from memory, a simplified album, so you'd jump a lot of SG numbers very quickly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/St...0/B004B9KAY2

Thanks Geoff, my version from the late 70's was probably the mother of this current edition. I would say just the top four lines would probably constitute what was page 1. Of course, I'm having a hard time reading the SG catalogue numbers on that very top line pictured! 2, 5?, x?, 14? Surely they are SG equivalents of the Scott 1-4 stamps, at least. Pardon the lack of specificity on my part, my SG catalogue is still in the mail. What would this album constitute amongst GB collectors, something more detailed than the Steiner pages but less complete than...what? John

SG have made quite few albums over the years, some are simplified , your's is probaly one. so a lot of stamps and # are missing. And your catalogue in the mail may be a simplified too. The simplified contain way less # than Scott, but if you get the specialised one, it contain way, way more # than Scott.

John

I'm afraid I don't use Scott or Steiner! The top line is the 1840 1d black and 2d blue, followed by the 1841 1d red/brown and 2d blue. Then the embossed trio. Perhaps you could simply make a first page for those issues, and use up the space with a title!

More complete will be the SG Windsor, and older albums such as the Imperial, which has spaces for plate numbers.

Geoff

I have the volumes 1 and 2 "Specialized" catalogues coming, so they should be fairly complete. I will make a custom first page, I just wanted to make sure that I covered it exactly as this album originally had them. I would say that this album is quite a bit more complete than the Scott/Steiner coverage, based on comparing the following years' coverage, from 1855 onward. I'll dig into it further and see if this thing/album had a "name" back in 1977. Thanks again to both.