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2003
Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue NOW in full colour, on sale at HALF RETAIL !! |
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The following was my review from the May 2003 "Stamp News":
New-look Stanley Gibbons British
Commonwealth COLOUR Catalogue
After many, many, months of
waiting and great indecision as to era of contents inside,
the new "British Commonwealth” Catalogue has
arrived air freight. It is an interesting concept.
The old traditional 2 huge volume "Part One" book is morphed into a single
volume to cover the Commonwealth - around the outer size of one of the usual
volumes. It runs close to 1000 large pages. Stamps are in 4 columns, not 3, so
more data is on each page.
The most striking feature this year is that nearly all
stamps are illustrated in FULL COLOUR.
Now my guess is that there about 15-20 photos a page average meaning
15,000-20,000 colour illustrations. Anyone who
has scanned a few stamps for eBay etc knows how time consuming it is. Imagine
doing 20,000! And THEN pasting them into the correct places in the text.
That was an opus work to get the artwork done. Most especially to source the
actual stamps to scan. After all, who has collections of modern Guyana to use
for reference?! You can bet SG do NOT, that is for sure.
I have been involved in publishing, and the time and COST to get this
together must have been terrifying. Great to see SG enter the world of
colour. The paper stock is excellent too. A nice crisp fresh white, so cheery
and alive compared to my already VERY yellowed 2002 SG with sad grey
illustrations.
I had a friend look at over when it arrived today, and who interestingly works
in publishing. She compared it right next to the old edition and said it is a
1000% improvement visually. I had to agree.
The old "Part One" is no more. This new volume covers 1840 to recent issues and
does so in a simplified manner, with no watermarks, perf varieties or M/S etc.
That is a drawback, but this is the way SG have gone, and seen confident this is
what collectors will buy. They offer no other option.
Cost is not low at $A185, due to weight of books for shipping, and strong
British pound. Bear in mind that the 2 volume mono set was WAY dearer than that
so the cost all becomes relative. I have about ten copies pre-sold to clients,
so it seems many folks are waiting anxiously for this.
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