You did a beautiful job, Stan, well worth the time spent. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Mike
Very nice, Stan!
Excellent display! Appreciate your sharing your efforts. Great narrative stamp history.
David
Yes indeed, nice page! A question: Are you using black mounts?
Bob
I'm using clear mounts, and what I did was put an image of each stamp into the document to have a reference for placing the stamps.
The borders on the stamp images were black so it looks like the mount is black.
Thanks to everyone for their feedback.
Stan
Hi Everyone;
I can't even afford one of those gems, but you have two of each?? The Brown one and the blue one have two stamps in the clear pocket. Just below the brown one I can see another stamp, and below and to the left I can see the second stamp behind the blue one.
Great looking page and write-up by the way. I guess you got a lot of great advice on here, because you sure got up to speed on collecting in a short time. You must have also done a lot of research on your own as well.
I'm a research nut too. I frequently scour the other forums on the net for ideas. Most of them are not clubs tho, just forums, and nobody has the stamp selling savvy of this great site. It is obvious that all the most friendly and knowledgeable collectors have moved over to here.
Keep on stampin'
TuskenRaider
It's a single of each stamp, and a printed image of the stamp below that. I used the images as a placeholder to know how to position my stamps.
I do a ton of reading and research and am particularly interested in that time period. This is the sole forum I use for asking questions and getting advice. I also read most forum posts to glean information that I might have missed.
Thanks to everyone for their advice and help.
Stan
Well, we're pretty good, we Stamporamanians are, but we aren't the be-all and end-all. I do a great deal of research, and Stamporama is indeed a good source of information, but I use libraries, Google, books (many, many books, both the dead-paper and e-book varieties), newspapers, museums, archives, eBay, stamp dealers, etc. On occasion — I'm getting ready to do it again — I hire researchers who have access to libraries and archives that are in other cities and provinces. I suppose that I actually collect information rather than stamps and covers, but the stamps and covers are what get me interested in finding the information.
Bob
Hi Everyone;
You are right Bob, about the research, I do it too.
I recently found a Machin with a nice clear Falmouth England cancel. Here is what I learned about Falmouth from Google.
1) Falmouth is at the mouth of the Fal River (bet you didn't see that coming).
2) It is also the third deepest seaport.
3) The ship that carried the news of Lord Admiral Nelson's death aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar against Napolean, made landfall at Falmouth and carried by coach the terrible news to London.
4) The Beagle, the research ship of Charles Darwin was anchored there, when he presented his paper to The Royal Society of London.
I guess I'm a bit of an Anglophile and love reading of the places in the United Kingdom, and all that history.
Did you know where Worcestershire Sauce was first produced? Lea & Perrin of Wales developed a fermented fish sauce made from anchovies (check the ingredient label). It was intended as an accompanyment to Welsh Rarebit. Welsh Rarebit has no meat at all, else it would have been called Welsh Rabbit instead!!
Just another rambling bit of useless trivia....
TuskenRaider
"Well, we're pretty good, we Stamporamanians are, but we aren't the be-all and end-all."
Here there be dragons!: "Never being one to attempt to re-invent the wheel, I always seek the less onerous pathway to knowledge. That is why, when faced by a perplexing question, or when confused, I always ask Bob!"
And that is how Bobby becomes more perplexed, more confused, and still facing an onerous pathway!
boB
I have decided that for certain stamp issues that I would like to have my own album page for that specific set or specific issue. First criteria was quality of materials and I chose Southworth Parchment Cover Paper - Acid Free - Archival Quality - 65lb along with Scott Clear Mounts. The application I used for this page is Adobe InDesign desktop publishing software. I set to work yesterday to create my "perfect" page to display the Zepps.
There's only one problem with doing things this way, is that I'm a little retentive when it comes to getting things laid out exactly how I want them, and it took about 3 hours just to get the page the way I wanted it. But, I think it turned out exactly like I had in mind.
What does this group think? And, if anyone wants a PDF of the designed page, I will email it to you.
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
You did a beautiful job, Stan, well worth the time spent. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Mike
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Very nice, Stan!
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Excellent display! Appreciate your sharing your efforts. Great narrative stamp history.
David
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Yes indeed, nice page! A question: Are you using black mounts?
Bob
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
I'm using clear mounts, and what I did was put an image of each stamp into the document to have a reference for placing the stamps.
The borders on the stamp images were black so it looks like the mount is black.
Thanks to everyone for their feedback.
Stan
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Hi Everyone;
I can't even afford one of those gems, but you have two of each?? The Brown one and the blue one have two stamps in the clear pocket. Just below the brown one I can see another stamp, and below and to the left I can see the second stamp behind the blue one.
Great looking page and write-up by the way. I guess you got a lot of great advice on here, because you sure got up to speed on collecting in a short time. You must have also done a lot of research on your own as well.
I'm a research nut too. I frequently scour the other forums on the net for ideas. Most of them are not clubs tho, just forums, and nobody has the stamp selling savvy of this great site. It is obvious that all the most friendly and knowledgeable collectors have moved over to here.
Keep on stampin'
TuskenRaider
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
It's a single of each stamp, and a printed image of the stamp below that. I used the images as a placeholder to know how to position my stamps.
I do a ton of reading and research and am particularly interested in that time period. This is the sole forum I use for asking questions and getting advice. I also read most forum posts to glean information that I might have missed.
Thanks to everyone for their advice and help.
Stan
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Well, we're pretty good, we Stamporamanians are, but we aren't the be-all and end-all. I do a great deal of research, and Stamporama is indeed a good source of information, but I use libraries, Google, books (many, many books, both the dead-paper and e-book varieties), newspapers, museums, archives, eBay, stamp dealers, etc. On occasion — I'm getting ready to do it again — I hire researchers who have access to libraries and archives that are in other cities and provinces. I suppose that I actually collect information rather than stamps and covers, but the stamps and covers are what get me interested in finding the information.
Bob
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Hi Everyone;
You are right Bob, about the research, I do it too.
I recently found a Machin with a nice clear Falmouth England cancel. Here is what I learned about Falmouth from Google.
1) Falmouth is at the mouth of the Fal River (bet you didn't see that coming).
2) It is also the third deepest seaport.
3) The ship that carried the news of Lord Admiral Nelson's death aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar against Napolean, made landfall at Falmouth and carried by coach the terrible news to London.
4) The Beagle, the research ship of Charles Darwin was anchored there, when he presented his paper to The Royal Society of London.
I guess I'm a bit of an Anglophile and love reading of the places in the United Kingdom, and all that history.
Did you know where Worcestershire Sauce was first produced? Lea & Perrin of Wales developed a fermented fish sauce made from anchovies (check the ingredient label). It was intended as an accompanyment to Welsh Rarebit. Welsh Rarebit has no meat at all, else it would have been called Welsh Rabbit instead!!
Just another rambling bit of useless trivia....
TuskenRaider
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
"Well, we're pretty good, we Stamporamanians are, but we aren't the be-all and end-all."
re: 1930 Graf Zeppelin Set - Created Album Page
Here there be dragons!: "Never being one to attempt to re-invent the wheel, I always seek the less onerous pathway to knowledge. That is why, when faced by a perplexing question, or when confused, I always ask Bob!"
And that is how Bobby becomes more perplexed, more confused, and still facing an onerous pathway!
boB