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I have returned to some of my topical collections as a means of escaping the routine of regular country collecting. Also, as your country collections reach the avance stage, it is harder and harder to find the stamps you are looking for (at the prices you can afford).
Topical collections offer a change of pace. They tend to be more limited in scope and offer lots more creative display potential. They make you travel virtually worldwide.
Topically, I collect a number of UN related worldwide campaigns (1960 World Refugee Year, UN 1963 Freedom from Hunger campaign, UN 1962 WHO Malaria Eradication campaign, UN 1964 Save the monuments of Nubia....and I have just began to collect the International Women's Year (1975). )
And of course EUROPA (stopped in 2000, with 24 2 inch binders...talk about saturating, but I still miss a few hard to find stamps and covers!)
For a change of pace for my regular country collections, I try to collect the stamps in both Used and Mint form, S/S and possibly blocks, and the FDC associated. This can prove to be a good chalenge, especially for the FDC, but above all it is a different way of collecting, displaying, and commenting on a subject. It is also a different way of thinking about a collection, and I find my brain works differently.
It is a change in pace.
From the many topical collectors here, I am looking for ideas about displaying your collections. Do you include descriptive text? How do you go about it, How limited is your range of collecting, etc... etc..
Given the wide range of Topical subjects, there must be many ways of approaching it. Here are a few pages from my topical collections, but I could use some ideas from others who specialize in Topicals, or just have fun with it.
rrr....
From my topical collections:
IWY (2 scans)
Save the Nubia
WHO Malaria Eradication
IRY
FFH
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Of course every collector will have their own ideas on displaying a topical or thematic collection. For me the descriptive text would be important. In fact I'm going the whole hog with my DC-3 collection which will be a book illustrated with postage stamps. (Mind you if I don't get it finished this year I doubt it will ever be done.)
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rrraphy,
The illustration on the Swiss cover.... are those supposed to be printing press rollers? Or did someone really celebrate the "International Women's Year" with a cover depicting three kitchen rolling pins?
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Tom (partsguy) excellent observation. 
The Swiss are showing a bit of Machismo, or sexual bias...LOL
I had nor noticed!
rrr....
For a few of these topics, I have been helped by the existence of specialty pages, in particular from White Ace. I have used their page design to fashion blanks for my extra pages...as I collect used, mint and FDC for topical. Although I am not in color as this started before color printers and copiers.
But I am now hitting subjects (International Year of Women - 1975) where I have not found a suitable design. I am looking for ideas from what some of you have done with your own designs.
I am looking for more topics of a similar nature, as topical is a real mental change of pace from regular collections. Maybe next, 1968 International Human Rights Year? I have to open my eyes for seed collections to get me started.
rrr...
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Retired Ap. Book Mod, Pres Golden Gate Stamp Club, Hi Tech Consultant
03 Jan 2021
05:51:42pm
Seldom covered here as a topic of discussion, I wish to reopen this subject.
I have returned to some of my topical collections as a means of escaping the routine of regular country collecting. Also, as your country collections reach the avance stage, it is harder and harder to find the stamps you are looking for (at the prices you can afford).
Topical collections offer a change of pace. They tend to be more limited in scope and offer lots more creative display potential. They make you travel virtually worldwide.
Topically, I collect a number of UN related worldwide campaigns (1960 World Refugee Year, UN 1963 Freedom from Hunger campaign, UN 1962 WHO Malaria Eradication campaign, UN 1964 Save the monuments of Nubia....and I have just began to collect the International Women's Year (1975). )
And of course EUROPA (stopped in 2000, with 24 2 inch binders...talk about saturating, but I still miss a few hard to find stamps and covers!)
For a change of pace for my regular country collections, I try to collect the stamps in both Used and Mint form, S/S and possibly blocks, and the FDC associated. This can prove to be a good chalenge, especially for the FDC, but above all it is a different way of collecting, displaying, and commenting on a subject. It is also a different way of thinking about a collection, and I find my brain works differently.
It is a change in pace.
From the many topical collectors here, I am looking for ideas about displaying your collections. Do you include descriptive text? How do you go about it, How limited is your range of collecting, etc... etc..
Given the wide range of Topical subjects, there must be many ways of approaching it. Here are a few pages from my topical collections, but I could use some ideas from others who specialize in Topicals, or just have fun with it.
rrr....
From my topical collections:
IWY (2 scans)
Save the Nubia
WHO Malaria Eradication
IRY
FFH
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re: Topical Collections...Display ideas?
Of course every collector will have their own ideas on displaying a topical or thematic collection. For me the descriptive text would be important. In fact I'm going the whole hog with my DC-3 collection which will be a book illustrated with postage stamps. (Mind you if I don't get it finished this year I doubt it will ever be done.)
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re: Topical Collections...Display ideas?
rrraphy,
The illustration on the Swiss cover.... are those supposed to be printing press rollers? Or did someone really celebrate the "International Women's Year" with a cover depicting three kitchen rolling pins?
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Retired Ap. Book Mod, Pres Golden Gate Stamp Club, Hi Tech Consultant
08 Jan 2021
12:49:53pm
re: Topical Collections...Display ideas?
Tom (partsguy) excellent observation. The Swiss are showing a bit of Machismo, or sexual bias...LOL
I had nor noticed!
rrr....
For a few of these topics, I have been helped by the existence of specialty pages, in particular from White Ace. I have used their page design to fashion blanks for my extra pages...as I collect used, mint and FDC for topical. Although I am not in color as this started before color printers and copiers.
But I am now hitting subjects (International Year of Women - 1975) where I have not found a suitable design. I am looking for ideas from what some of you have done with your own designs.
I am looking for more topics of a similar nature, as topical is a real mental change of pace from regular collections. Maybe next, 1968 International Human Rights Year? I have to open my eyes for seed collections to get me started.
rrr...
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