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you’re missing. You can find many
of them on your favourite site: The plan
Delcampe. The plan is your collection’s guide-
It’s a fact that all of the ideas won’t line. It summarises the subject and
come to you in a day, but rather as breaks it down. Generally spea-
you put your collection together king, the items you select must fit
and, sometimes, as you make new together logically and, preferably,
discoveries, new avenues will open chronologically, in order to ensure
up to you. It’s a long-term project, that visitors and the jury unders-
which you’ll find captivating and tand the collection and how it de-
culturally enriching (although a litt- veloped. The plan must appear at
le less so for your wallet). the start of the collection (on one
If you don’t mind my giving you of the two first pages, and never at
a little advice: take your time and the end of the collection).
ease into things while slowly but
surely collecting items related to The jury’s grading system.
you subject. Your collection will This is the grading sheet the jury
be better and you won’t ruin your- will use to give you points. As you
self by buying items at any price can see, in open philately, both the
because you’ve run out of time. philatelic and the non-philatelic
Don’t go overboard either. For a material is taken into account
beginner, one frame (16 sheets) in assessing the collection. This
or 3 frames (48 sheets) will be a is contrary to the themed class,
good start. You’ll be able to show which means that it’s important to
for a first time in a regional compe- also present high-quality and va-
tition and correct any little errors ried non-philatelic items to ensure
France 1889, Obverse and reverse of a
medal dedicated to the construction of afterwards. that you don’t lose points.
the Eiffel Tower. As is the case with any collection, The jury assigns points to obtain a
you can start and do very nice percentage, which then translates
things with a relatively small bud- into an award based on a medals
get. However, it would be wrong table.
to say that this will always be the The jury will also comment and
case, because, if you’re ambitious provide some advice. In this case,
about competing, you’ll have to in- it’s best to take this into account
vest in rarer, and more expensive to correct small mistakes and ap-
items at some point. You’ll have to ply the recommendations for later
improve on your previous exhibits showings of the collection
at each stage of competition.

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