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Hi everyone Where is the best site to download South Africa album pages? I don't mind paying a reasonable price. Thanks
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Hi Sanpool and welcome! Have you tried Googling "free stamp album pages"? If you do that a whole pile of stuff comes up
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Hi sanpool3, You don't mention whether you are looking for an RSA album, a Union album, or both.
I have a free Union of South Africa album available, I just need to check it before I can add it to my website for download, probably over the weekend. I also have Republic pages, but these only go as far as 1969. I really should complete this album, maybe I will try adding a decade every few weeks. Regards, Clive
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AlbumEasy - Free software for creating custom stamp album pages ChromaMate - Compare, match, analyse, free colour matching software ImageSleuth - Images, hidden inside images, revealed. A retroReveal alternative PSGSA - The Philatelic Society for Greater Southern Africa |
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The easiest way to download almost any country's stamp album pages is to purchase Bill Steiner's pages on either a CD or by subscribing to his website for a year and downloading from it. It's about $50 and you can download pages for the entire world from it. It's an amazing bargain. And his pages are well laid out and very complete. http://www.stampalbums.com |
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I doubt that even Mr Steiner's mother would describe his pages as "well laid out". "Crudely functional" would be more accurate. |
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I appreciate that page layout is a matter of personal taste, so I am not going to comment on that aspect of the Steiner pages.
My bigger concern, however, is that the Steiner pages are ordered according to the Scott catalogue which is not that widely used outside of North America, and, at least for the British Commonwealth stamp entities that I am familiar with, often gives short shrift to major varieties. Scott, and thus Steiner, also has what seems to me to be an illogical fondness for placing perfectly good postage stamps in the BOB category and shoving them in at the end of the album.
So, for example, in the case of the Union Of South Africa, the four 1925 and two 1929 airmail stamps are placed out of sequence at the end of the album followed by the four 1933 Voortrekker Memorial stamps hidden at the back of the book because they included a small fundraising surcharge despite their primary function as postage stamps.
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AlbumEasy - Free software for creating custom stamp album pages ChromaMate - Compare, match, analyse, free colour matching software ImageSleuth - Images, hidden inside images, revealed. A retroReveal alternative PSGSA - The Philatelic Society for Greater Southern Africa |
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Thanks to the folks trying to help. I did try google and not very good results. Thanks clive I appreciate your offer of album pages and I am looking at collecting both Union and Republic. let me know by email when you have something for me. Thanks again and hopefully I will get more suggestions |
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