Steiner / Great Britain / Scott / Gibbons / Regional / Machin = Migraine?

For the last year or so, I've been happily unloading my 20lb, 7-inch thick, childhood (1957-1980-ish) H.E. Harris Citation Album into 3-ring binders with Steiner Pages. Everything went fine until I got to Great Britain (which I had never paid much attention to).

Steiner apparently provides a number of different formats and groupings resulting in duplications or omissions.

Scott, in their wisdom, has numbered all the Machins separately with "MH", "NIMH", "SMH", and "WMMH" prefixes in-between the normal numbers for the Regionals (SMH!); very few of their color descriptions match what the Steiner pages say; and for the most part ignore phophorus banding varieties.

I've just placed an order for a Stanley Gibbons Concise Catalogue to see if that will help to mitigate the confusion a little, but to quote Han Solo, "I've got a bad feeling about this!".

Just wondering if anyone else has any thoughts or suggestions...

Al

I know this feeling. My Machins are still just going into a box for "someday".

But I have been using some of the materials put together by Robin Harris on his website to help me sort through things. There are also some album pages here as well.

https://adminware.ca/machin/Index.php?About

Thanks Mainer!

That looks to be a great resource - put it in my favorites.

Al

I found it best to confine myself to the pre-decimal issue, and humanely dispose of any others that passed through my hands.
We have a few devoted Machin amateurs here who will have done the hard work for you.

LOL!

...sound advice GeoffHa!

If my frustration continues on its current trajectory and I should decide to follow your lead, I will be careful not to incur the wrath of the *ISPCPS!

Al

*(International Society for the Prevention of Cruely to Postage Stamps)

I use SG Concise as the foundation for numbering supplemented with information from Adminware. I do not like Deegam's cataloging method although it is a great reference. The adminware album pages are a nice reference.

Scott ignores phosphor and printers but does list some value shapes (thick thin) and EME. SG ignores EME.