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postmaster adding an extra series does not come in the standard version from someone who enters, you only see it if you click on ALL. and there are already 2 series
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I understood  postmaster's message of November 22, 3:06 PM as follows (and I think it was intended that way):
- the items there now are 'Varieties'.   If you really want to go that far, indicate it in his collection or wish list. Whoever is able to determine which variety he has for sale also puts those items in his shop. All these items have the type 'Variety' and are not shown with the standard filter on.
- who doesn't want to go that far, wants an item where those specific things (Offset printing or Rastergravure) are not listed. The stamp. As a seller you then sell the Christmas stamp 3590 (NVPH). As a collector, that 'gap' is filled if you own an NVPH 2590 stamp. It doesn't matter what kind of pressure (which you can't even detect with the naked eye without aids). That (default) item with type 'Seal' is not yet present on LD. If it is added, printing technique will not be filled in (it doesn't matter).
Therefore 'Seal' has sort of disappeared from those items that are now present on LD.
An item is either 'Seal' ' or 'Variety'. Both are not possible.

Consideration (dream): at some point it may be possible on LD to make sure that the detail of an item of type 'Seal', if varieties are known , a button appears to show the varieties and the seal in one overview as a detail). With emphasis on the differences.
Anyone who doubts (limit themselves to collecting the stamp, or wants to collect all varieties of a stamp) would then have a good tool with such a screen to determine what collector wants, has, and possibly still searches.

Note: whoever wants all the varieties will not collect the stamps in a Davo book. There is only one box where you can put the NVPH 3590 Christmas stamp. A collector of varieties usually makes his own blades. Sometimes several sheets for one stamp (if issued in many different forms, varieties).
It's a personal choice, but LD could serve and help both.

@Frageria Don't hesitate Charles, just add. There's nothing wrong with that. In principle, every change (or addition) is checked by an administrator (this is called 'reviewed'). Sometimes it takes a while, but it will eventually get there. If something is wrong or missing, everyone can adjust or supplement. First read the stamp handbook (not much work) that contains most of the agreements.
If you follow those agreements, I am convinced that it will be OK.
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The Post of the Netherlands has issued on December 20th 2017: 
- a miniature sheet of 2 x 5 stamps x 2, with printing technique photogravure;
- a block of 10 similar stamps, with printing technique offset.
Since both were issued at the same time, the stamps of the miniature sheet can never be called varieties of the block stamps or vice versa.
I make explicit reference in this matter to what is stipulated in the instructions 10.2  Perforation variety first sentence: 
Variety of perforation is, as the word itself says, a variety of an originally existing perforation…
By analogy the same principle is valid for all varieties of colour, watermarks, luminescence, printing technique, paper type, gom, and so on.
I presume that nobody can tell us in this case which printing technique was originally used. Therefore varieties are non-existing and each stamp falls within the type “stamp”. Each of them should be seen immediately in the standard overview.
The solution to resolve the problem?
Create two series as follows:
2017 December stamps (photogravure)
2017 December stamps (offset).
And if the question should remain how to see the difference between the two techniques, information can be added in the details' fields.


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That's also a possibility, but not in line with what I referred to in my previous post (the principle from the post of November 22, 15:06).
Many possibilities are fine. On a platform with many users, it is necessary to make a choice that everyone on that platform follows.
It is allowed to think about it, there is nothing wrong with that.

The principle can be justified for the benefit of the standard collectors, who usually collect the Netherlands in a pre-print album. I gave the example Davo (very much used in the Netherlands) but there are other publishers of preprint albums.
For the 10 stamps issued, there are 10 catalog numbers NVPH (the specialized catalog of the Netherlands), and there are 10 boxes (whether or not not with a crystal strip if it is a luxury album) to put in the series of 10 issued Christmas stamps.

Your proposal can be motivated by the more advanced or specialized collector. That type of collector is also not limited to what is shown with the standard filter on. The ordinary collector (the majority) works with the standard filter on. And it then sees both series on LD. How do you see an ordinary collector deciding which stamps from the 2 series he/she can designate on LD in his collection?
And that was the problem that started this thread initially:
Maybe these have been entered twice
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I suppose that your message is meant for me?

1.  Again, in this case there are NO VARIANTS. All 30 stamps were issued at the same time and deserve to be treated in the same manner as other items. 
2. Creating a "standard" series of 10 stamps without mentioning the printing technique  is creating all sorts of problems (image is always specific and catalogue numbers cannot be correctly filled in, for instance  the Michel catalogue mentions 6359 I#6368 I (photogravure) and 6359 II#6368 II (offset). 
And, as for the discussions on the forum about perforations, the result will be that instead of the specific printing technique, Collectioneur will be obliged to change it all in "printed"?
3. Do you really think that DAVO is only meant to be used by beginning collectors in the Netherlands? To my knowledge most of the collectors are intelligent enough to see more than the front gallery, and you'd be surprised that a great number of those collectors are specialized in one of more aspects of philately. They aren't helpless at all.
This argument of yours has not a lot of importance (unless of course you are one of the shareholders of the company...?;)  And I suppose that the page of DAVO is problably big enough to place 10 stamps more.     



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Just as there are no stamps with "different perforations", there are also no stamps with "different printing techniques". There is from 2017 December stamps a series of stamps in gravure and there is a series in offset. A third variant does not exist.
The most important principle of this catalog is that we only include items that actually exist.

I understand that from the original Collect-A-Rom entry there are so-called "base stamps", which combine all variants, for the benefit of collectors who don't care which version they have. But from the point of view of a clean database, that's an abomination.
I believe that those base stamps (in time, when all variants are present in the catalog) should be removed.
And with that wish in mind don't keep adding more items that don't exist.

Note: I am aware that the Stamps section has an exceptional position within LastDodo in this regard. Hence my ask to postmaster. If the administrators of the section want to continue in this way by all means, then I will not interfere further.
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Peter, are you now - as administrator of another section - asking me ... to rebel against my main administrator? I hope it wasn't intended that way, but that's pretty much how it sounds.

Again: See post of November 22, 3:06 PM. And keep in mind the original start of this thread, by a user on LD, a collector, "Could it be that these were duplicated". A very valid and normal question/comment. When I clicked on my collection (with the green behind my ears, almost a year ago anyway) I also looked at this one as if on a sick cow. I think I then based on the number of people who had the stamp in their collection to click on the stamp in my collection. I don't care whether those printed dots of the colors are closer together or not at 1000x magnification. I am an ordinary collector for the Netherlands. I only need to see one set of 10 items with the default filter on.

With guidelines and procedures / processes to follow I do not express preferences. I like to follow the instructions of people who (dare to) take responsibility, based on many years of experience. only in this way do I contribute to the build-up. Not in the dismantling stage.

Oh yes, agreements can indeed change, after a while, if there is a better alternative (that also on all hundreds of thousands of items already present in the stamp category must be applied). But not in that way.
And also not going with the wind every month. That's not how it works.

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It all gets a bit complicated, but I still have a question. Loriot is now talking about 30 stamps that have been issued. Are the stamps of the double sheet with raster intaglio printing also different and how can they be distinguished? keep each other?.
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And to come back to Loriot's first message in which he says that the two versions of the December stamps should be included in the standard. Could it be that, for example, the first issue of the Netherlands also includes several items in the standard, because these stamps are also different.
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Frageria don't be so difficult, there are only 10 stamps with raster depth and 10 stamps offset in the catalog and 1 sheet with 10 offset, and a sheet with 20 raster depth, and 1 sheet with 10 stamps as duplication item 8201875
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and the stamps on the sheet of 20 are all raster deep, that's why there are only 10 in the catalog
and 10 offset stamps
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aartinge, read Loriot's message carefully.
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Because it's just hard.
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Frageria what do you think is difficult?
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these stamps are in there twice.

No, two printing techniques were used.
in fact, these 2 series should simply be in the standard version.
even if the offset series would have been released later.


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see message 24 November 2021 09.26
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No, it was not a call for revolution ;-)

I just wanted to remind you of the anomaly in the stamp section. It has to be corrected at some point, and then it won't help if you keep adding incorrect items in the meantime.
Now that programmers are available, a good solution must be thought of. As far as I am concerned (as manager of another section), the stamp section should take precedence. The integrity of the LastDodo database is more important to me than the wishes of certain groups of collectors.

Analogous to this problem, for example, the Comics section has long ago opted for a "Main Series" showing the "basic albums" of a comic book hero, for collectors who don't care what print they have. Those are specific albums, in a specific version, that actually exist. The countless editions and printings that resemble it are of course all included in the catalog (just like varieties with stamps), for advanced collectors.
At the moment you cannot simply indicate in the Books section that you have e.g. The Da Vinci Code in your bookcase, you have to tick a certain edition. There is no "basic book".

Perhaps a more elegant solution can be devised than a "Main Sequence" (because that always requires the choice of an administrator), perhaps a creative programmer will come up with an alternative.
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And to come back to Loriot's first message in which he says that the two versions of the December stamps must be placed in the standard. Could it be that, for example, the first issue of the Netherlands must also leave several items in the standard? because these seals are also different.

Which stamps are you talking about? the first issues are, for example, the intaglio or offset, and which stamps are the multiple items that are also different according to you, there are only 10 intaglio and 10 offset, that's all there is.



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 it was not a call to
Whew :)
It seems the same problem to me too. In stamps: 'I have that stamp'. For books: 'I have that book.
For the benefit of the ordinary collector (like Charles and I) in a certain area / country. Or for the seller who is not in touch with philately, but wants to sell his copies. For example, a book collector who buys a large lottery ticket and it turns out that there are some stamp books among them. I don't see someone like that going straight into the books and buying special devices to determine very specifically which variant or variety of a Christmas stamp Netherlands 2017 he should place in his shop to get rid of it. Such a user on LD simply wants to see that bycatch end up with a justified collector as quickly and as simply as possible (in exchange for a few cents on the count, of course).

With the extensive option behind it for those who if a collector wants to go a little further in that area / country. Or for the seller who, with the right knowledge, wants to very specifically recommend a (usually more expensive) version.

That's why the principle (which has to be followed, it's just the way it is) can be used as a starting point (see my story about the 'knoppeke').
It is a choice. Very conscious and thoughtful. Without choice (decision) you have to allow all possibilities (creative, fun or horrible) that a person can think of in the catalog. And that, that would be disastrous. One way, whether you like it or not, for everyone and everywhere in the stamp section. If a 'more elegant solution' is devised later, then at least there is certainty as to how such items - everywhere in the catalog - are present. You can do something with that.
And never forget: there are advanced collectors and ordinary (simple) collectors. All welcome. Collecting is a hobby, a relaxation. If LD can support all of that, we're on the right track.
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November 24, 2021 18:47
 the first issue of the Netherlands
I suspect that Frageria means the issue 1852 King Willem III.
But I don't think more variants have appeared at the same time.
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Sorry aartinge I mean the first stamps of the Netherlands. Sometimes I can't express myself very well - too long in Germany.
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It seems to me the same problem.
I mean, it IS the same problem. Only stamps are allowed to use a "solution" that goes against a basic principle of this catalog. That's my problem.
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Frageria you have questions about the Christmas stamps 2017 and then you get the first stamps of the Netherlands, don't do it
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Do you know what I'm doing?.I'll leave the December stamps 2017 for another year and go straight to the December stamps 2018. Good evening, Charles
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