Philatelic Google'ing

[darkormex]

Originally posted by bengalpaws;

First let me say I'm a firm believer in YOU collect to YOUR interests and I collect to MY interests... sort of applying the philosophy of "I'm ok, you're ok" to philately.

With that said I like to research and read on philatelic subjects that interest me (i.e. U.S. postage). Many philatelic books are out of print, difficult to find or ghastly expensive.

I recently applied an old Google search trick to finding philatelic material as PDFs and found some interesting things and plenty of not so interesting things.

The search string I used was:

index of" + "pdf" + "philatelic" -html -htm -php

This returns an index listing of PDF files containing the word "philatelic" and does not return any web pages - just PDF files.

You can change the word "philatelic" to anything you like... "stamp collecting", "stamp exhibitions", etc.

Additionally you could swap "pdf" with "mp3" and "philatelic" with "Rolling Stones" and find some music to listen to while you're at it!

Searching indexes of specific file types and specific subjects can dig up some quite interesting material!

[krash]

Thank you. I don't know any search "tricks" so that will almost certainly help out a great deal. Again, Thank you!

[kacyds]

Great information darkormex, I must have missed this thread earlier!!!

[MikeC99]

Darkormex, thanks for the google search string instruction.
Mike

[darkormex]

MikeC99, kacyds, Gentlemen, I would love to take credit for this but it is one of the threads I moved over from SB1 and I failed to give credit to the original poster. I no longer remember who originally posted this.

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Mr. darkormex
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I'm thinking the original poster was Mr. bengalpaws.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

[darkormex]

Sir, I think you are right. I will edit to state this.

[rbridge28570]

Thanks for posting this!! Found a couple of interesting PDF's.

[Ebbo]

Try here also.

brupt.com/

[rbridge28570]

Added that link to my favorites!! Thank You

[Butterfly]

Google images is a good way to get information about stamps.
And it is fun to do too.

Simply copy/paste your stamp image or some internet image into the google image site and google will list what they find that is relevant.

Go to images.google.com/

Wait for the camera to show up in the box (at least if you have dialup, like me)
Click on the camera, then decide whether to browse and upload your own image or paste an internet image. Then hit the search button.

[cbavier]

Thanks for the great information. I too have these all bookmarked. Now if I can just remember what I bookmarked them for. DUH!

[darkormex]

Dec 12, 2013 16:41:36 GMT -5 Butterfly said:

Google images is a good way to get information about stamps.
And it is fun to do too.

Simply copy/paste your stamp image or some internet image into the google image site and google will list what they find that is relevant.

Go to images.google.com/

Wait for the camera to show up in the box (at least if you have dialup, like me)
Click on the camera, then decide whether to browse and upload your own image or paste an internet image. Then hit the search button.

I would like to add that doing a google search for a specific color can give you a palette to work from if you are try to type stamps by color.  Trying looking up a color like bister in google images and see what you get.  There are also a number of art/craft websites that specialize in selling paints, pens, pencils, etc... that have ranges of color palettes available if you are trying to identify stamps by a specific color.

[stampfan]

Very helpful thanks.

[samliu]

Good to know, thanks.

[Ebbo]

You can use this site also to help narrow down your searches.

brupt.com/

[biglavalamp]

Is there a free online resource for USA and or GB errors and varieties (apologies if is the wrong place to post this request for help).