Catalogues

WHOOPS! THE TEXT IN RED DID NOT WORK! BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME!! Bruce

Mr Moderator Please delete the above request as I located a copy of the original Post in my DTCA files - fortunately, and have added the missing words to the Post. Kind regards Bruce (150) 5 January 2016 #744

New catalogues have been added to the publications section today! I'll try to grasp some more of my catalogues, flyers etc. from the discs in the near future and make them available for the website. I hope many others will share their catalogues and other publications too, for the sake of further research into Dinky Toys. And, Dave, apparently I somehow missed your observation/request above: yes, French Dinkies were in minority in their programme (also as the range was in fact smaller than the British series), but not neglected! It is remarkable that certain French Dinky Toys were not available to the Dutch market every now and then, possibly because they 'competed' with the ones from Liverpool. Kind regards, Jan

Hi Jan Just I sent a scan of the DT Catalogue UK 1954 to Dave Kaun to publish it in the list of catalogues. I promised that, but did not yet find the time to do it. In the next months I shall try to fill up the gaps in the list with the catalogues I have, as much as I can, but it takes much time. I shall do my best. I saw that you added much catalogues, so I have much less to do. Best regards, Jan.

Jan--As usual, thanks for your ongoing contributions to the site, and especially to these catalogs....they are such a valuable resource. I noticed that many of the early 1950 French catalogs are not listed. I have all of them, from 1952 through 1960.....should I submit them? And how do we do that? Scan them as a PDF and just send to Dave K.? Best regards, Terry

Hi Jan and Terry, thanks for your actions and intentions for new contributions to the catalogues collection on the website! Together we can amass a lot of them, for fun and research. Please, continue to do so! I do not have many catalogues, but I will try to add some more and other PR stuff in the near future. I am now very busy with the completion of my 2010-2015 catalogue supplement (!). Terry, yes, please, do scan (some of) your French (and other?) catalogues. You can send the pdf files to Dave Kaun. They should not exceed about 60 mb each. Kind regards, Jan

Jan--I will do that.....can I assume that scanning them at 200 dpi should be adequate resolution? I usually do 300 dpi for nice photographs, but that would lead to large files and likely not necessary.......... Regards, Terry

Hi Terry, I sent pdf's based on 300 dpi scans, because I always scan at that resolution for printing quality. But indeed,200 dpi will do as well (perhaps even better!). Kind regards, Jan

Terry if you do the French DT catalogues of 1952-1960 I do the missing 1949-1951 and the lacking between 1960-1971. Then we do not double work. Best regards, Jan

Jan--Yes I will be glad to scan and send all of the French Dinky catalogs from 1952 through 1960, and you can do the others....sounds like a good plan! Regards, Terry

Well, I was able to scan & send the 1952 through 1960 French Dinky catalogs to Dave this afternoon, and he has already posted several of them. I will also look at cleaning up the US issues. Regards, Terry

I've done the 1949-1951 French and start today with the missing French ones from 1960 onwards. After that I look for the missing Dutch ones.You did it very quickly. It apparently takes me more time. First of all I scann all the pages to a JPEG image. Then I copy the JPEG images into a Word document in landscape format,. Finally I save the Word document as a PDF file. I do also 200 dpi. Is this the correct way to make these PDF files or is there an other way?Regards, Jan