Project description
I have been collecting old postcards for years, and by now there are roughly two hundred cards that still live in shoe boxes on a shelf. I would like to order a binder album built around this particular collection rather than buy a generic one. About half of the cards are the usual postal size, another third are slightly smaller, and some thirty are large view cards that no ready-made page will take. So I need pocket pages for two main sizes, plus several pages made for the oversized ones.
Preservation comes first, and this is the part I will not compromise on. Pockets and interleaving sheets must be made only from acid-free materials with no plasticisers: ordinary soft plastic sticks to paper over the years and ruins it beyond repair, and I have already watched that happen to a friend's collection. I do not write on the cards themselves and I never tape anything down, so every note about the year, the series and the publisher has to go on a margin of the page next to the pocket, not on the card. A card must slide out and back in without effort, without catching at the corners.
The windows should be clear on both sides, so that the picture and the written back with the postmark are both readable; the backs are half the reason I bought these cards in the first place. I want a firm cover with a ring or screw-post spine so that pages can be added as the collection grows, plus a slipcase against dust, because the album will be stored upright, away from sunlight and damp.
What I expect from you:
— a page layout for both card sizes and a separate plan for the large ones;
— a written list of the materials you propose, with confirmation that everything touching the cards is acid-free and plasticiser-free;
— a sample page before the full run, so I can test how a card goes in and comes out;
— ruled margins for the year, the series and short notes;
— a cover and a slipcase in a calm, dark colour;
— delivery within about twelve days and a price that covers the sample.
Preservation comes first, and this is the part I will not compromise on. Pockets and interleaving sheets must be made only from acid-free materials with no plasticisers: ordinary soft plastic sticks to paper over the years and ruins it beyond repair, and I have already watched that happen to a friend's collection. I do not write on the cards themselves and I never tape anything down, so every note about the year, the series and the publisher has to go on a margin of the page next to the pocket, not on the card. A card must slide out and back in without effort, without catching at the corners.
The windows should be clear on both sides, so that the picture and the written back with the postmark are both readable; the backs are half the reason I bought these cards in the first place. I want a firm cover with a ring or screw-post spine so that pages can be added as the collection grows, plus a slipcase against dust, because the album will be stored upright, away from sunlight and damp.
What I expect from you:
— a page layout for both card sizes and a separate plan for the large ones;
— a written list of the materials you propose, with confirmation that everything touching the cards is acid-free and plasticiser-free;
— a sample page before the full run, so I can test how a card goes in and comes out;
— ruled margins for the year, the series and short notes;
— a cover and a slipcase in a calm, dark colour;
— delivery within about twelve days and a price that covers the sample.
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