What's New

The following list shows the major revisions to the website since it became live in 2011.

September 2020

collective deluxe proofs - added a new collective deluxe proof gallery with images of 70 collective deluxe proofs from France, Andorra and FSAT, including many Europa topicals
bird topicals - added a new gallery of bird topicals, with more than 100 artist's proofs photos, including an extensive selection of penguin proofs,
new topical galleries - added new galleries for the topics animals, aviation, flora, famous people, space, and sports
Andorra - more than 100 new artist's proofs photos, including 50 new Europa artist's proofs photos
FSAT - more than 100 new photos of artist's proofs produced after 1999
St. Pierre & Miquelon - photos of more than 40 additional artist's proofs produced after 1999
ships - more than 30 new photos of artist's proofs, mainly from FSAT
photos of entire artist's proofs - photos of more than 200 entire artist's proofs (in addition to existing close-ups of the stamp portion of the proof) added to gallery pages
collective deluxe proofs - images of 70 collective deluxe proofs from France, Andorra and FSAT, including many Europa topicals
catalogs - added more than 30 new items to the FSAT artist's proof catalog and 20 items to the St. Pierre & Miquelon artist's proof catalog
improved menus - simplified main and side menus

Andorra - 90 new artist's proofs photos
New Caledonia - 23 new artist's proofs photos
FSAT - more than 400 new photos of artist's proofs
French art stamps - photos of 19 additional artist's proofs from the 1980s and 1990s proofs
French Europa - more than 30 additional photos of artist's proof from the 1980s and 1990s

Andorra - new gallery of 70+ artist's proofs
famous people topicals artist's proofs
Andorra - new gallery of 70+ artist's proofs
French Polynesia - new gallery of 130+ artist's proofs, including souvenir sheets
New Caledonia - new gallery of 240+ artist's proofs
Wallis & Futuna - new gallery of 230+ artist's proofs
ships - new gallery of 100+ artist's proofs
FSAT - 50 additional artist's proofs
St. Pierre & Miquelon - 30 additional artist's proofs
French art stamps - expanded to include the period 1973-99 with more than 80 new artist's proofs
French Europa - 8 additional artist's proofs from the period 1991-93
new intro pages listing the main engravers and other information for each country and topic

new FSAT artist's proofs section with a catalog and 400+ images
new St. Pierre & Miquelon trial color proof section with catalog and 500+ images
new topical artist proofs section with 300+ images of art, Europa, and trains proofs
new highlights section with 250+ images of some of the most beautiful artist's proofs and trial color proofs from my collection
new section of 100+ images of artist's proofs used for official philatelic documents
100+ new images of FSAT trial color proofs
250+ new images of St. Pierre & Miquelon artist's proofs
resolution of all images increased by 4x for better viewing on retina and other high-resolution screens
new research on paper types, watermarks, and quantities printed for artist's proofs

2020-2021

additional images of FSAT artist's proofs
more images of complete artist's proofs from FSAT, St. Pierre, New Caledonia, Wallis & and Futuna and on the topics art, Europa, ships, and trains
artist's proofs color comparison
trial color proofs color code comparison
additional trial color proofs selections
more trial color sheets
close-ups of engraving detail