2012年3月10日土曜日

How to organize covers

I couldn't decide the arrangement of covers, however, I've finally found whe way.  I have to write a report because many philatelists advise me about this issue.

I was thinking on the assumption that I should use filing system such as Album binder etc. until the last minute. When I use filing system for philately, my policy is "don't use it without dustcase"! As I wrote in my previous blogs, however, there are few manufacturer who sell filing system with dust case. Only Philatelic company manufacture ones, thus it costs me much more.

JPS is the biggest philatelic manufacturers in Japan and they sells one binder at around 20USD. it's not cheap but so so but what is bad is they use very small leaf and you can't place two covers in a page unless it is very small. I also have to give up big material. So I quit this way.

Next I planned to use products of Lindner,German company which I've already used in the arrangement of unused foreign stamps. The binder of Lindner costs 70USD per one. This price is much higher than JPS. But you can place two covers per a page and you can also place big materials. So I thought I should go this way.

By the way, I bought 20 plastic drawer systems recently at very cheap cost ( 8USD per one ) to get ready for placing covers to the filing system.Contrary to expectations, this way to place covers to drawer systems works nice and I decided to use this system for a while to check if it is really good. 

 

The biggest reason that filing system does not work for arranging covers is its low view. For example, if you see 10 covers, you have to see more than 5 pages when you use filing systems. When you use drawer systems, however, you can place 10 covers on the desk at once and you can also check behind of them or even inside of them. In my experience, I have many covers of German States, the theme I participated in the International exhibition, in the album binders and the frequency I check them is very low just because its low view.

The point in using the drawer systems is two. One is not classifing inside one drawer too much. 5or 6 is enough. Second is don't use rubber band which hurts covers and stamps quickly by chemical change. Having many not-special-covers is important to research philately and make collections. I'll try this way for a while. 

 

 

that the provisional arrangement, whereas stamps Stock Leaf is the best, is not the best cover that is located in the low may be viewed. But not to see the cover sheet of 10, you have to look into more than five leaf binder album page and organize it, or side by side and watching a bunch Papa~tsu s drawer storage, free to see the wording back and is universal. I, may also have participated in international exhibitions, the cover of German States, but I have put into a binder number, I was very much less be seen either because of low viewing will.

Organized as a point of withdrawal is that not too much broken into in the drawer of one. What classification at most five or six. Also, use a rubber band directly to that summarize each chestnut divided want is to absolutely avoid. It will be useless now, that fry and stamps since it is covered by a chemical change reliably. That you have a two cover a lot more than the army used to cover the exhibition is necessary for further research. I'll try to continue this way for a while.

2012年3月9日金曜日

The Local Form Cards issued by Japan Post, Used one and mini-card

I don't  aim to complete-collect the Local Form cards issued by Japan Post  because they are something like many post cards without printed stamps and cost too much.
However, I sent some philatelic cover when I go to the local parts of Japan.
This example was made last month when I've been to Kyoto and the destination is Germany. It costs 110 yen for envelope + 410 yen for Express. JP charges the envelope fee for the deformed postcards.

To exhibit this post card, I have difficulty showing what is depicted, this post card is in fact showing Amano-Hashidate, beautiful scenery of Kyoto.
Mr. Osawa , a friend of mine, thematic collector as well as From cards collector advised me to show the mini-card which you can get one per five purchase of a form-card.
I don't know the existence until his advice.

Buy five and get a mini-card on the left. Please compare the size of the form card on the ritht. In fact I can get this mini-card for free in certain post office.

Postscript: Regarding Ken's comment yesterday, we've already scanned all the Japanese stamps but the release-date has not been fixed just because we'd like to  release it as high level as possible with some information about manufacturing, watermarks and so on. Ken, thank you for the message!

2012年3月8日木曜日

I found a single line perforation > Chrysanthemum

Is it a single line perforation, I think ? (please see the crossing point of the perforation.)

Shimotsuke, Kanuma Telegram Post Office May 20, 1901

 

Studying with Mr. Miwa Furuya's Chrysanthemum stamp!

I've been collecting and placing Japanese stamps stil. In order to study the classification of single-line perforation and comb perforation , I bought a manual of Chrysanthemum stamp which Mr. Miwa Furuya wrote. I bought the same manual series of Koban last year with author's autograph, however I don't have the one of Chrysanthemum. 

Now I can tell the difference of the perforation of Chrysanthemum stamp if it is block. I have little confidence on pairs and singles.

This one is comb perforated because it is beautifully crosses in the middle.
I think the pair of 1.5 sen blue I showed in the preveous blog is single-line perforation, though I'm not sure enough.