Post by mourningdoves on May 6, 2018 20:34:36 GMT -5
I soaked about 400 Polish stamps yesterday and today. A surprising number of them had been carelessly taken off the sheets and corners were torn off. A few others just had random rips. I did find some good recent ones, though, and some excellent postmarks. For a country that has a reputation for being culturally pretty conservative, they sure have some edgy (in a good way) graphic designers.
Then I polished off my database of Greece through 1970 and am preparing to make tags for Vario pages. The only annoyance I've found with Varios is that...say, right now I'm taking a break from a 1951 series commemorating St. Paul's visit to Athens. One of the stamps is horizontal and slightly smaller than a typical United States commemorative. Two are the same size (I think), except they're vertical. And the fourth (which is the second in the series) is also vertical and about the size of the Seattle Space Needle. Every row on a Vario page is the same height, so I'll have to use a sheet with four rows to accommodate the Space Needle, and the other three stamps will look sort of malnourished and insignificant by comparison. I guess I'd have that problem on any album page, Vario or paper, but it's one of the few circumstances in which I wish I could pull some design tricks that Vario doesn't allow. Oh, well, if that's my biggest headache I shouldn't bellyache about anything.
Liberia is going into the database. Hoping to finish up today
Janet, are you doing recent issues, pre-1960, or both? One of my regrets is at the 2014 APS show in Hartford, I was talking to a bunch of people, and one of them was trying to get us interested in Liberian stamps and, I regret to say, having trouble getting a word in edgewise. (Not really because of me; I know I write like a motormouth, but I'm not like that in public.) As he was walking away, he said, "Check out Liberia!!" and I should have run after him and said something cordial like, "So...what's up with Liberia? And while we're at it, what's up with you?"
I joined ISWSC yesterday. I will try that for a year at least.
You will love it. Not that I'm biased or anything; I just proofread a couple of articles for their journal this afternoon.
Then I polished off my database of Greece through 1970 and am preparing to make tags for Vario pages. The only annoyance I've found with Varios is that...say, right now I'm taking a break from a 1951 series commemorating St. Paul's visit to Athens. One of the stamps is horizontal and slightly smaller than a typical United States commemorative. Two are the same size (I think), except they're vertical. And the fourth (which is the second in the series) is also vertical and about the size of the Seattle Space Needle. Every row on a Vario page is the same height, so I'll have to use a sheet with four rows to accommodate the Space Needle, and the other three stamps will look sort of malnourished and insignificant by comparison. I guess I'd have that problem on any album page, Vario or paper, but it's one of the few circumstances in which I wish I could pull some design tricks that Vario doesn't allow. Oh, well, if that's my biggest headache I shouldn't bellyache about anything.
Janet, are you doing recent issues, pre-1960, or both? One of my regrets is at the 2014 APS show in Hartford, I was talking to a bunch of people, and one of them was trying to get us interested in Liberian stamps and, I regret to say, having trouble getting a word in edgewise. (Not really because of me; I know I write like a motormouth, but I'm not like that in public.) As he was walking away, he said, "Check out Liberia!!" and I should have run after him and said something cordial like, "So...what's up with Liberia? And while we're at it, what's up with you?"
You will love it. Not that I'm biased or anything; I just proofread a couple of articles for their journal this afternoon.
I told her if I could retire from work, I would be more than happy to figure that out.
