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Richard Frajola This mounted group of British Africa was the start of a "project" collection of inexpensive stamps intended to explore the possibilities of a UPU collection for would-be collectors. With available print-on-demand pages, and every stamp being common, I was thinking maybe this could be a way to start a new collector with something beyond first day souvenirs and plate blocks. How the various countries complied with the UPU color regulations would make a good topic. For example, the US Washington-Franklins and Canada's "Maple Leaf" designs had to be be changed to include numerals rather than the denomination in text only. Ethiopia had to overprint stamps with Roman numerals, and the British stamp printer, De La Rue, feared there was not enough ink available so first tried to get by with colored value tablets before being forced to change. A person could start with common material, add postal cards and then add covers showing the rates, and hopefully learn about the possibilities of stamp collection beyond a catalog. However, availability of material is not enough to start a collection - good information is also needed. The project was aborted when I discovered that the readily available information on the subject was so flawed as to be worse than useless.
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Richard Frajola (Sep 25, 2018) |