Thursday, March 5, 2009

Davo Album Update

Thanks to Henry Gitner, I now have a copy of the new DAVO United Nations personalized sheet album. This album is the perfect place to store and display my collection. This DAVO album contain removable pages which allow you to work on your sheets and then place them in archival-quality clear stamp mounts. These seem to hold the sheets firmly in place, without any damage. This also allows you to insert pages where you might want to display sheet varieties.

The album itself is a black, high quality, heavy stock. It includes a dust case, to protect the sheets and the binder itself from outside influences. Each sheet has a gray-scale picture of the relevant sheet and the album included four extra blank sheets to help cover the varieties. Extra sheets can be purchased from DAVO. It is a very impressive album.

My only quibble is that the Microcredit sheet is assigned to 2003 instead of 2005. DAVO uses a numbering scheme that starts with the year, followed by the sheets in the order they were issued. So, for 2003, the first United Nations personalized sheet is given the designation 2003-1 (S1). Their designations are fine, they've just misplaced the Microcredit sheet (unless they know something more about this sheet than we do!). Perhaps this can be corrected when the pages are reprinted.

For now, I am very, very happy to have a copy of this album.

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