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Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 10:39

Diverse Collection No. 83.

: Stamp of The Cook Islands. Mint Miniature sheet of 3 stamps for Easter 1972.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 10:56

Diverse Collection No. 84.

: Stamp of The Cook Islands. Mint Miniature sheet celebrating The Queen Mother's 100th Birthday.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 13:46

Diverse Collection No. 85.

: Stamp of India 2009. Mint miniature sheet of spices of India. Purchased in Goa on a Round the Indian Ocean cruise in 2010.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 13:49

Diverse Collection No 86.

: Stamp of India 1974. Mint miniature sheet for the Centenary of the Union Postale Universale.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 13:52

As from the post above all future posts will have been upgraded to dpi 600 level especially after reading some of the previous comments re my attempts with default level dpi 72. It takes some time and learned experience to master new skills.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 13:57

Diverse Collection No. 87.

: Stamp of The Ukraine. Mint miniature sheet with an Orthodox religion theme.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 13 Mar 2023 13:59

Diverse Collection No. 88.

: Stamp of The Ukraine 2005. Mint miniature sheet for the 60th Anniversary of the end of WW2.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » 13 Mar 2023 17:36

Waffle wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023 06:36 My wife found the dpi resolution button and we upped it to 300 as suggested by VickyVFU and Ubobo.

How high does it go?

I'm curious to know what the top level looks like for individual stamps...

Rigs · Post by **Rigs** » 13 Mar 2023 18:32

Catweazle wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023 17:36
Waffle wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023 06:36 My wife found the dpi resolution button and we upped it to 300 as suggested by VickyVFU and Ubobo.
How high does it go?

I'm curious to know what the top level looks like for individual stamps...

The thing to remember about scan resolution is that it will only ever render at 72dpi on your device, screen etc.

Hence output size is the real consideration - an a4 sized image scanned at 72dpi will actually look no different than the same scanned at 300dpi, when observed side by side on your device.

What will be noticeable is if you zoom in on the higher resolution there will be far more detail.

Doesn’t matter whether cover, stamp or other.

I would imagine for most display requirements on these boards 72dpi at roughly a4 output is adequate - and will save a lot of server space

Philexx · Post by **Philexx** » 13 Mar 2023 22:27

: Postcard showing memorial for JFK in Schoeneberg (Berlin), Germany.

satsuma · Post by **satsuma** » 13 Mar 2023 23:19

Catweazle wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023 17:36
Waffle wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023 06:36 My wife found the dpi resolution button and we upped it to 300 as suggested by VickyVFU and Ubobo.
How high does it go?

I'm curious to know what the top level looks like for individual stamps...

My Epson scanner goes up to 4800*4800 resolution, and I can change my monitor default settings from 600*800 to 1920*1080.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 07:05

Diverse Collection No. 89.

: Stamp of The Cook Islands 1973 . Mint miniature sheet for Easter 1973. Reproduction of a painting by Durer

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 07:12

Diverse Collection No. 90.

: Stamp of The Cook Islands 1973. Mint miniature sheet as C.T.O. of a reproduction of a Painting by Rubens.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 07:19

Diverse Collection No. 91.

: Stamp of India. Mint miniature sheet for the International Year of Biodiversity with a scanner misfunction.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 08:40

Diverse Collection No. 92.

: Stamp of India 2012. Mint miniature sheet of Lighthouses of India.

Stewie1980 · Post by **Stewie1980** » 14 Mar 2023 08:43

Waffle wrote: ↑14 Mar 2023 07:19 with a scanner misfunction

Why not just scan it again?

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 08:45

Good question. CBB.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 08:47

Diverse Collection No.93.

: Stamp of India. Mint miniature sheet of Waterfalls of India.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 14 Mar 2023 09:31

Diverse Collection No. 94.

: Stamp of Aitutaki. Mint Miniature sheet for the Bicentenary of the Discovery of Aitutaki with A Mutiny on The Bounty theme.

jimp · Post by **jimp** » 14 Mar 2023 10:21

Two examples of GB LSD money and Decimal money stamps used together:--

Ip and 5d

4d and 1p

jimp · Post by **jimp** » 14 Mar 2023 10:23

Postmark showing 'collect British stamps, worlds greatest hobby' postmark.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:21

Diverse Collection No. 95.

: Stamp of STAMP! with mint miniature sheet of 6 stamps by Claude Monet. Les Nympheas.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:27

Diverse Collection No. 96.

: Stamp of The Cook Islands. C.T.O. Mint miniature sheet of Scenes from Rarotonga Island

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:30

Diverse Collection No.98.

: Stamp of The cook Islands and Niue. Mint stamps x15 on an album page, sadly adherent to the paper.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:34

Diverse Collection No. 99.

: Frontspiece of stamp pack from The Maldive Islands. Maldives History and Culture.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:38

Diverse Collection No. 100.

: Stamp of The Maldive Islands. Mint Miniature sheet from the Maldives History and Culture stamp pack, titled 848 years of Islam. Bought at Male airport on our departure after a holiday.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:42

Diverse Collection No.101.

: Frontspiece of Stamp Pack of stamps of The Maldive Islands, also bought at Male airport.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:46

Diverse Collection No 102.

: Stamp of The Maldivbe Islands from the above posted stamp pack. Mint miniature sheet titled Celebrating 30 Years Of Tourism. In spite of the piscatorial images on the frontspiece, not a single fish shown on any of the stamps!

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:49

Diverse Collection No. 103.

: Fropntspiece of a Maldives Islands stamp pack of a Chinese Lunar Calendar for Year Of The Tiger. Also bought at Male Airport.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 13:52

Diverse Collection No. 104.

: Stamp of The Maldives. Mint sheet of Maldives stamps, the contents of the above posted Chinese Lunar Calendar.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 17:54

Diverse Collection No. 105.

: Stamp of Papua New Guinea on a 5/8/1964 F.D.C. for a Health issue.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 15 Mar 2023 17:58

Diverse Collection No. 106.

: Stamp of Tristan da Cunha on a 20/11 1972 F.D.C. for the Royal Silver wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip.

lesbootman · Post by **lesbootman** » 15 Mar 2023 18:27

I like this thread Waffle. That maybe because I seem to regularly delight in making random purchases (or accept gifts) and rarely rule anything out.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 06:58

A man after my own heart!

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 12:38

Diverse Collection No. 107.

: Stamp of Thailand. Large mint stamp sheet.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 12:41

Diverse Collection N0. 108.

: Stamp of Malaysia. Mint miniature sheet for Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition '93.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 12:50

Diverse Collection No. 109.

: Stamp of Malaysia 2007. Mint miniature sheet of Air Transportation In Malaysia.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 12:56

Diverse Collection No. 110.

: Stamp of Luxembourg 1998. 4 mint stamps from 1998.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 16 Mar 2023 13:40

Diverse Collection No. 111`.

: Stamp of Luxembourg. & mint stamps, one of which is the 1997 Christmas issue.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 17 Mar 2023 08:15

Diverse Collection No. 112.

: Stamp of New Zealand on a 6/10/1976 F.D.C. The complete 1976 Christmas Issue.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 17 Mar 2023 08:26

Diverse Collection No. 113.

: Large information Card of U.S.A. troops in Northern Ireland during WW2. The War Memorial information Centre is in a street beside St. Anne's Cathedral. Never been there before and but for my last return to settle my late sister's affairs, I would still have been unaware of its whereabouts.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 17 Mar 2023 08:28

Diverse Collection No.114.

: Card for H.M.S. Belfast( WW2 veteran) moored in the Thames. She visited Londonderry in 1943/4 and was in turn visited by Generals Montgomery and Eisenhower.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 17 Mar 2023 08:32

Diverse Collection No. 115.

: Reverse of above card, also picked up at the Belfast War Memorial Information Centre.

norvic · Post by **norvic** » 17 Mar 2023 18:28

Rigs wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023 18:32
Catweazle wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023 17:36
Waffle wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023 06:36 My wife found the dpi resolution button and we upped it to 300 as suggested by VickyVFU and Ubobo.
How high does it go?

I'm curious to know what the top level looks like for individual stamps...
The thing to remember about scan resolution is that it will only ever render at 72dpi on your device, screen etc.

Hence output size is the real consideration - an a4 sized image scanned at 72dpi will actually look no different than the same scanned at 300dpi, when observed side by side on your device.

What will be noticeable is if you zoom in on the higher resolution there will be far more detail.

Doesn’t matter whether cover, stamp or other.

I would imagine for most display requirements on these boards 72dpi at roughly a4 output is adequate - and will save a lot of server space

That’s fine if you are scanning an A4 sheet of stamps, but if you on,y scan one of them at 72dpi ….. for a single stamp to be seen as big as possible here you need to scan at a higher resolution.

Depending on whether it’s stamp or cover I use anything between 150-600, more for detail on a stamp.

Rigs · Post by **Rigs** » 17 Mar 2023 18:56

Ian, if you read what I said:

“Output size is the real consideration”

Set your output size to roughly A4 at 72dpi.

Or resample your hires scan so that it is approx 72dpi at A4 size will be sufficient for the vast majority of images, such as the wonderful material Waffle has posted here to date in Odds and Sods.

But perhaps this aspect is off topic for this thread - and scanning have a thread of its own?

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » 18 Mar 2023 23:06

Waffle wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023 08:28 Diverse Collection No.114.

I must be a real nerd these days. Saw the name of this ship and immediately thought oh! That sounds familiar. Turns out she'd completed regular beats up and down the North sea on Arctic convoy duty.

Imperial War Museum wrote:HMS Belfast was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 5 August 1939 but its war service came to a premature end on 21 November, when it detonated a German magnetic mine. On Christmas Day 1942, repaired and modernised, it arrived under the command of Captain Frederick Parham to join the 10th Cruiser Squadron at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands. There followed a punishing 18 months operating in support of the Arctic Convoys, delivering essential supplies to the Soviet Union.

By 1942 the Arctic Convoy route to Russia via Iceland had become one of the great naval battlegrounds of the Second World War, and HMS Belfast's first year was a demanding one. Its role included convoy screening (defending the ships in convoy) and endless duty on the Northern Patrol off Iceland, watching for attempts by enemy warships to break out into the Atlantic.

In the Arctic the weather was arguably a greater threat than the Germans, and the special Arctic clothing issued was barely adequate. Just moving around the icy decks in rough seas and darkness could be lethal for the unwary, despite the safety ropes which were provided. Veterans remember mess decks inches deep in dirty sea water and going months without mail or leave, other than brief runs ashore to the tiny island of Flotta, the site of Scapa Flow’s Fleet Cinema.

I may have a cover related to HMS Belfast - will have a hunt and share it here if you're interested.

: Royal Marines and seamen on the quarterdeck of HMS Belfast in November 1943.

Note how some of those men pictured have axes in hand. My guess is that they would be for chipping away at the ice before the ship became top heavy!

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 19 Mar 2023 09:48

Excellent addition to the posts on H.M.S. Belfast, Catweazle. Yes indeed the ratings and often lower grade officerd would spend long hours chipping away at the ice that formed on the superstructure and railings lest the ship became top heavy and turned turtle. Immersion in the subzero Arctic waters gave the sailors less than 5-10 minutes of survival from hypothermia.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 19 Mar 2023 09:50

Diverse Collection No 116.

: Stamp of Germany on a free girt from Philexx. Many thanks for it and the next 8 posts.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 19 Mar 2023 09:53

Diverse Collection No. 117.

: Stamp of East Germany on a 15/7/1977 F.D.C. for the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Waffle · Post by **Waffle** » 19 Mar 2023 09:56

Diverse Collection No. 118.

: Stamp of East Germany on a 6/9/1977 F.D.C. Miniature sheet for the Centenary of the birth of F.E. Dzierzynski.