My Personal Steiner Page Hacks

Yeah I do that a lot too and it just looks ugly. The lettering is visible between the stamps.

I know what you mean. It's difficult when you are trying to match up to something too.

For example, I was missing about half of 1999 for Great Britain and onwards. I used some free pages that I know a few on Stampbears have referenced to fill the gap (http://www.gbstampalbums.co.uk/), but when I tried to pull the few pages I needed I had an issue with those pages being in A4 format when I needed US letter. Beyond that, the boxes for the stamps were not the right size (they were too small).

I ended up using the details about the stamps from those free pages but edited my Steiner pages to use the borders and copied stamp box sizes from Steiner for those few pages so everything would mostly match to the rest of my pages.

Has anyone figured out what font Steiner uses? I've read somewhere that it's an old Apple font. For me Nimbus Sans L comes the closest and that is what I've been using. It also appears he changes up the letter spacing a bit.

OK, just a very small little fix..............

Page 66 of the Venezuela1960.pdf has "University Hospital and Other Designs" title with "1956" as the date. I think it should be "1956-57" as per the corresponding entry in the Scott Catalog. Here is the fix I applied, but if someone could check me I would appreciate it.

Hi

Here is some food for thought referring to the Scott "University Hospital"  (all the other catalogs refer to the set as Public Works)

Scott C613 - 628, University Hospital, Caracas.
Scott: 20c, 40c, 45c, 50c and 1b issued 11-5-56 and others in 1957

Specialized Venezuela 1991-1992 Blanco Catalog:
Obras Publicas Contruidas (Public Works Construction)
Blanco: 1153 - 1168
Official Gazette Nos. 25,195 and 25,230 dated 11-2-56 and 12-13-56
printed by Courvoisier S.A. Switzerland
First day of issue 11-5-56.

Stanley Gibbons 1989 Part 20, South America
SG: 1404 -1419
Issue Date 11-5-1956

Minkus 1980 Latin America
Minkus: 1170-1185
Issue Dates:  20c 50c 65c 11-5-56
Remainder:   1957

Jerry B

Yeah I use a couple of websites to help organize my stamps in the Steiner pages and I'm quite amazed (and confused) at how many different references there are to the same series of stamp sets.

Hi khj

Scott 2019. I missed the 50c issue. Your list is correct

Jerry B

Hi khj

I know you were not being "nit-picky". If one doesn't ask questions one never learns anything. I've corrected the thread. When it comes to Scott (Amos Publishing) they are not too consistent, even within the same country listings.

I have an old Michel (1974) but hardly use it. I prefer using specialized catalogs. Unfortunately I do not have an Ecuador Cataldi catalog. I've been looking for that one for years. My stamp dealer friend had one in the store and like a dummy I did not purchase it.

Jerry B