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Development Notes

Contacts - Footnote Conventions - Fractions - Images - Page Credits - Scott designations - Sources - Images needed

Images
Many of the images on the new pages are from from David Olson's website. The newer images there are 700p in height. Those images are used on the site but reduced to half size (350 high), but retaining the original quality.
Images from other sources are shown at the original size, subject to a max height of 350p.
Many of the images from the original site are significantly smaller than that (as was appropriate at the time) and the intention is to replace them in due course. Images needed.

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FICC#s
Frequently used FICC IDs:

169	Jesper Andersen
91	Tim Balm
181	Nick Blackburn
2	E. Clark Buchi
210	Louis Laflamme
1	David Olson
175	Edo Rajh
18	Kurt Streepy
10	Bob Sylvester
[14]	Floyd A. Walker

Page Credits
The original site was written and developed by Jesper Andersen: it is one of the most significant acheivements of FICC and the Club will be forever in his debt. The redevelopment is by Nick Blackburn. On the country detail pages (but nowhere else) credit is given to the original writer. There are two reasons for this: firstly, it is only fair to give Jesper his due and (this being written by Nick B), for me to take the blame where necessary. Secondly, it is hoped that other members of FICC will contribute to the page research and they should be given credit too.

The current credits are:

JA - Jesper Andersen
NB - Nick Blackburn

Sources
For the first two pages of catalogue, the information sources have been cited in some detail as the pages are rewritten. Consideration is being given to having a single list of references which are then cited by number. One potential problem is to decide on a numbering system because the list is bound to grow over time: simple numbering will become unweildy. Here is the first draft of the list.

Ref	Author / Catalog	Title	Date	Edn.	Publisher

JM1	Mackay, J	The World of Classic Stamps 1840-1870	1972		Putnam, New York
JM2	Mackay, J	The Guinness Book of Stamps	1988	2nd	Guiness Publishing, London
JM3	Mackay, J	Philatelic Terms Illustrated	2003	4th	Stanley Gibbons, London
JM4	Mackay, J	1800 Stamps of the World	2007	1st	Southwater, London
KW1	Wood, KA	This is Philately (3 vols.)	1982	1st	Van Dahl Pub., Alany, USA
LMW1	Williams, LN & M	Rare Stamps	1967		Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London
LSI	Linn's	Linn's Stamp Identifier	2001		Amos Press, Ohio
LWSA	Linn's	Linn's World Stamp Almanac	1989	5th	Amos Press
MiK	Michel ↓	Michel Klassik Katalog Europa 1840-1900	2007		Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH ↓
Mi1		Michel Mitteleuropa	2006
Mi2		Michel Südwesteuropa	2007
Mi3		Michel Südeuropa	2007
Mi4		Michel Südosteuropa	2009
Mi6		Michel Westeuropa	2006
Mi9		Michel Mittl- und Ostasian	2006


Mink1	Minkus	Minkus New Worlwide Stamp Catalog, Vol One	1970		Minkus Publications, New York
Mink2	Minkus	Minkus New Worlwide Stamp Catalog, Vol Two	1969		Minkus Publications, New York
NB	Nick Blackburn	I copy some text and images from my web site.
ScA	Mucha, L & Hlinka, B	The Scott Stamp Atlas	1987	1st	Scott (US) Orbis (UK)
ScC	Scott	Scott Classic Specialised Catalogue	2003	10th	Scott, Sidney, OH
ScS	Scott	Scott Standard Catalogue 2009 (6 vols.)	2008	165th	Scott, Sidney, OH
SYB	Paxton, J. (ed.)	The Statesman's Year-Book Historical Companion	1988	1st	Macmillan Press, London
RJS	Sutton, RJ	The Stamp Collector's Encyclopaedia	1959	5th	Stanley Paul & Co., London
SGGBC	Stanley Gibbons ↓	Gibbons GB Concise	2010	25th	Stanley Gibbons, London ↓
SGP1		Gibbons Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1952	2003	106th
SGP2		Gibbons Part 2 Austria & Hungary	2002	6th
SGP3		Gibbons Part 3 Balkans	2009	5th
SGP4		Gibbons Part 4 Benelux	2003	5th
SGP5		Gibbons Part 5 Czechoslovakia and Poland	2002	6th
SGP6		Gibbons Part 6 France	2001	5th
SGP7		Gibbons Part 7 Germany	2011	9th
SGP8		Gibbons Part 8 Italy & Switzerland	1997	5th
SGP9		Gibbons Part 9 Portugal & Spain	1996	4th
SGP10		Gibbons Part 10 Russia	1999	5th
SGP11		Gibbons Part 11 Scandinavia	2001	5th
SGP12		Gibbons Part 12 Africe since Independence A-E	1980	1st
SGP13		Gibbons Part 13 Africe since Independence F-M	1981	1st
SGP14		Gibbons Part 14 Africe since Independence N-Z	1981	1st
SGP15		Gibbons Part 15 Central America	2007	3rd
SGP16		Gibbons Part 16 Central Asia	2006	4th
SGP17		Gibbons Part 17 China	2006	7th
SGP18		Gibbons Part 18 Japan & Korea	1997	4th
SGP19		Gibbons Part 19 Middle East	2009	7th
SGP20		Gibbons Part 20 South America	2008	4th
SGP21		Gibbons Part 21 South-East Asia	2004	4th
SGP22		Gibbons Part 22 United States	2000	5th
SGS	Stanley Gibbons ↑	Gibbons Simplified 2004 (4 vols.)	2003	69th	Stanley Gibbons, London ↑
TB	Tim Balm	(FICC#91) has provided numerous images.
YTC		Yvert & Tellier Classiques du Monde	2010		Yvert & Tellier, Amiens

Several web sites have proved repeatedly useful as sources of both information and images. These include:

Here's an extract from SG's 2016 product list showing the specialised catalogues and a few others that might be of interest (were they not so expensive).

And a 2017 list of the Michel catalogues (click to enlarge)

Coding fractions in HTML
1/2 → ½ or ½
1/4 → ¼ or ¼
3/4 → ¾ or ¾
1/8 → ⅛ or &frac18;
3/8 → ⅜ or &frac38;
5/8 → ⅝ or &frac58;
7/8 → ⅞ or &frac78;
1/3 → ⅓
2/3 → ⅔
1/5 → ⅕
2/5 → ⅖
3/5 → ⅗
4/5 → ⅘
1/6 → ⅙
5/6 → ⅚

or (15/16) ¹⁵/₁₆

Tick ✔ ✔

Thanks to stackoverflow.

Arrows are here. ←↑→↓ ← 3, 4, 5

character-code.com

Hierarchy of footnotes *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶.

asterisk	*	*	*
dagger	†	or &dagger;	†	†
double dagger	‡	or &Dagger;	‡	‡
section sign	§	§ or §	§	§
vertical bar	‖	\| (single bar)	\|	\|\|
pilcrow	¶	¶ or ¶	¶	¶

Schott's version is: dagger, double dagger, asterisk, section, double asterisk, triple asterisk, four dots, asterisk in a circle, bendy square, triangle, diamond. HTML has:

†	‡	*	§		∴		Θ ⊗	¤	Δ	◊
&dagger;	&Dagger;	*	§		&there4;		Θ &otimes;	¤ or ¤	Δ	&loz;
dagger	double dagger	asterisk	section	double asterisk	triple asterisk	four dots	asterisk in a circle	currency sign	triangle	lozenge

- - * -

Incidentally, three dots is a horizontal ellipsis … ( or …). and † &dagger;.

Updating contacts
edit main/contact.php and ficc/main/contacts_c.shtml

Scott designations
Source

Prefix	Category	Other prefixes used by more than one country include the following:
C M P N O Q J RA B E MR	Air Post Military Newspaper Occupation - Regular Issues Official Parcel Post Postage Due Postal Tax Semi-Postal Special Delivery War Tax	H I CO CQ RAC CF CB CBO CE EY S G GY MC Q NC NO NJ NRA NB NE QY AR RAJ RAB F EB EO QE	Acknowledgment of Receipt Late Fee Air Post Official Air Post Parcel Post Air Post Postal Tax Air Post Registration Air Post Semi-Postal Air Post Semi-Postal Official Air Post Special Delivery Authorized Delivery Franchise Insured Letter Marine Insurance Military Air Post Military Parcel Post Occupation - Air Post Occupation - Official Occupation - Postage Due Occupation - Postal Tax Occupation - Semi-Postal Occupation - Special Delivery Parcel Post Authorized Delivery Postal-fiscal Postal Tax Due Postal Tax Semi-Postal Registration Semi-Postal Special Delivery Special Delivery Official Special Handling

Security and other code
Zubrag - password code
Stackoverflow - images
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Stackoverflow - back button - Go Back or Back

w3schools Slideshow

Random image code, Will Botranger.

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