Description

This app is based on the book 'ThePostageStamps of Great Britain' by W. M. Ward published in 1918 bySevernWylie Jewett Co. and can be used as a regular catalog,including ahave and want list.

The catalog uses an own numbering system, but withkindpermission from Stanley Gibbons, the main numbers from theGreatBritain Concise Stamp Catalog are included.

Shades and varieties of main numbers have a subnumber a, b,c,etc. For example, 1a, 1b, 1c are shades of number 1. Platesanddies of main numbers have the plate or die number separated byadot. For example, 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.2 are plates of number 1.

Plates and dies do have SG numbers but are hidden in thelistingsexcept at the stamp details where it is visible.

This catalog follows the same order as in the book withtheexception of SG numbers 121 (2s. brown) and 151 (1s. orangebrown).This means that some Stanley Gibbons numbers are foundelsewhere inthis catalog. For example, the die I and II of thefirst perforatedissue are grouped and mixed in the Stanley Gibbonscatalog, but areseparated in the book, where first die I isdiscussed and then dieII.

The visibility of subnumbers in the regular stamp list, havelistand want list, can be changed by an option on the mainmenu;initially subnumbers are visible. Likewise, the visibilityofplates and dies can be changed; initially plates and diesarevisible.

The book does not list every shade (or names theshadedifferently) that is listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalog; inthatcase, a masculine ordinal indicator ° is used to indicatethis.Issues later than 1917 are not included in the book but areaddedto complete the King George V period.

Only main numbers have images, sub numbers, plates and dieshavenot. At the stamp details, gray scale images of main numbersareused for the sub numbers. In the regular stamp list, images ofsubnumbers are not displayed. In the have and want list, thecolourimages of main numbers are used for the sub numbers.

Other catalog numbers from the major worldwide catalogpublisherscan be added manually. The codes used for the catalogsare: 'SG' forStanley Gibbons, 'Sc' for Scott, 'Mi' for Michel and'Yv' for Yvert& Tellier.

You can manually add a price, but the catalog does notdistinctbetween the condition of stamps like used, mint, hinged,etc. Withkind permission from Arthur Ryan & Co., the catalogcan importstamp prices of various grades as published in July 2014on the website www.gbstamps.co.uk.

The Find by Design option gives an overview with allstamps.Scrolling for the first time in this overview might be slowbecauseof the many images that must be loaded! Scrolling a nexttime willbe faster. For fast scrolling, it is tried to load allimages intomemory and it depends on the available memory on thedevice if thisis possible. If this is not possible, a message isshown andscrolling in this overview will be slower than usual.