Iraq stamp catalogue 1990-2003 – in print soon
I have been working on a this project with the aim to release a catalogue of all the Iraqi stamps with full colour images and I decided to start on the period between 1990 and 2003, mostly because I have a full collection of those stamps and because its probably one of the most confusing periods for a collector with so many overprinted/surcharged stamps.
I see the catalogue being used in a number of ways:
1) As a catalogue, i.e. a reference to the issues of this period with full colour images of the stamps rather than a list. The stamps will be to scale (100% scale). Ofcourse this includes miniture sheets.
2) As an album, I want to print this on card paper which means they can hold stamps if needs be.
3) As a value guide, I have used stamps values from Stanley Gibbons latest catalgue, this just give an indication of how much the stamp is worth, it certainly would be easier to look through a small catalogue rather than the normal stanley gibbons big one.
4) As a collection guide, well this is the second most useful feature from my point of view after including all the stamp images, and the way this works is that each stamp has tick boxes next to it for the collector to indicate whether they have this stamp in their collection or not, and in what condition. This way when you find a set you don't know if you have in your collection, it won't be necessary to open up big albums and try to find the set, you just look at this catalogue and you will know.
I'm hoping within the next two weeks this will be ready, I just need to go over the content and re-check it.
If you are interested in pre-ordering this let me know by using the contact form, you don't need to pay now, it just gives me an idea of how many I should print for the first print run.
