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December 23, 2020 21:52

At pressure you can choose from:

Third print

First print

First edition of a reissue

Reprint

Second edition

Now in the series "Flags of all countries" there are 4 albums that are in the catalog, 2 of which are with a higher pressure (concerns 3662969 and 2922847 ) than what can be chosen and that have been given Reprint as pressure.

Can the option Fourth edition and Fifth edition be added to the choices for this?

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December 23, 2020 22:20

Can the option Fourth edition and Fifth edition also be added to the options?


No, we do not go further than the 3rd edition for Books and Comic books either. In this case, the pressure is already well indicated in the Details field.

Too bad the 2nd edition has not yet been entered.

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December 23, 2020 23:22

Thank you for the explanation.

And indeed a pity about the 2nd edition which is not yet available and to make this complete it would be great if the 6th edition also shows up somewhere.

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December 24, 2020 00:16

Incidentally, it is not the intention to distinguish the different pressures with number additions a, b, c, d, etc (although it is very tempting to do so). This field is only intended to distinguish between different editions or variants within the same publication year.

See art. 18 of the Handboek Comics, which also applies to similar fields in Books and Collection albums.

The ANPA gives the release date for this issue "April 1952". This is also the first mention in newspapers, as far as it can be found on Delpher. I do not know on the basis of which information the years 1950 and 1951 appear in the first and third editions.

(And if we just put all prints - for lack of evidence to the contrary - in 1952, then of course those number additions are allowed again.)

P.S. The sixth edition is not yet in the catalog, but it is for sale at the 5th edition. If someone wants to hit Joost, he might enter it.

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December 24, 2020 01:14

@stripspeldjes,

Thank you for explaining the number additions. To be honest, I have never taken a good look at the Comics Handbook.

I thought with that addition to nicely indicate the order of the printing so that it was clear

I don't know Delpher, but I will definitely see if I can learn something about old compilation albums and album pictures, thanks for this tip.

And finally it is a nice challenge to find the dates for these albums.

edit:

"Six editions were published without mentioning the year of issue" is a text that frequently appears in the search for the year, and 1952 is also a year that is often mentioned.

So it seems a logical choice to use 1952 as the year for this.

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December 24, 2020 13:26

Delpher has become an indispensable source of information for me. It does not provide all the answers (some information has really disappeared in the fog of time), but you can sometimes make surprising discoveries.

I did wrong with those number additions, and then I was reprimanded by Arco. It is often difficult to understand the exact logic of all agreements based on the manual, but there is a well thought-out system behind it and Arco was also keen to apply everything as consistently as possible throughout the entire catalog ( even though most sections do not yet have a Handbook).

I saw that most Album pictures from Flags of all countries are undated, but based on the preface I suspect that they were in circulation at least a year before the publication of the book (1950-1951). Presumably they have been reprinted countless times, which can also be seen on the back, where initially no mention was made of the compilation album, but later on. Unfortunately not all backsides have been entered, otherwise they would have been easier to distinguish.

P.S. Can anyone explain why the flag of East Germany is not listed?

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An explanation could be that this picture (3376803) was printed in 1948 or 1949 as the back of the picture mentions the 4 sectors into which Germany was divided at that time.

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December 24, 2020 15:54
East Germany did not exist then, it is really primary school knowledge
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December 24, 2020 16:42

I don't know which primary school you attended, but the GDR (with flag) existed from October 1949. The album was released more than 2 years later.

Does anyone have the album? Does it contain exactly the same information about Germany?

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