Using StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features with the PowerUser Option
How to use Extended Features if you are looking for a Catalog Number in a Country. For a list of the Countries as entered at StampAuctionNetwork, please click
here.
Start with StampAuctionNetwork Auction History - Put in "RW1" (hint: you can use 'wildcards', RW%=everything that starts with RW, ""=Blank, %RW2%=found anywhere in the catalog
number field. %%=Any Catalog number-use this with a keyword search) Then put in "United States", the search is broken down by year sold with the newest
first. You can download the entire group with the Download option.
Find Missing Records Matching this Search... -- this gives you records with the same country, but with no catalog
number loaded, but the catalog number is in the description. These can be linked back up by entering the catalog
number and going back up to the top of the page and pressing [Update and Save all Changes]
Guidelines for entering Catalogue Numbers. First use the catalogue number that most collectors of that country would use.....
If the number is What to do What it should look like when done
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RW1/RW44 this is ok
RW1-RW39 this is ok
RW1 (og), RW3 (NH), RW5 (NH) drop the (og) and (nh) RW1, RW3, RW5
RW1, RW4, RW5-7 (2), RW8, RW9 (2) drop the (quanties) RW1, RW4, RW5-7, RW8, RW9
#RW1-2 drop the # RW1-2
Download Option -- lets you make a download of your selection.
How to find more matches. Sometimes the item has been coded under the wrong country so use the
Auction History Quick Catalogue Edit and then type in the catalog number or wildcard RW1 or RW% to get all RW's
Check the other countries to find what may be loaded in the wrong country. You can fix the country.
Use the Find more [Catalog Number] where Country is blank to get records with NO country entered. You can fix the
country.
You should now go back to StampAuctionNetwork Auction History and find that you have found most of the missing items of interest.
"DataMiner" tip. Here are a couple of combinations which ought to yield a number of records for datamining.
First set the filter to All stamps (both Open and Sold), this will get you the most to work with.
Enter a blank country and blank catalogue number.
Enter a Country (France or United States) and a blank catalogue number.
Enter a Blank Country and a common catalogue number.
or pick a common combination for postal history, and start mining covers.
Now lets say you are looking for everything in a difficult Country like say Guam
Start with Country Master Edit and pick Guam, this will give you all the records by Catalog number coded as Guam.
You can pick on any of the Catalog Numbers and roam around, but there is more to find.
Lets fix the bad countries first. Pick May be Wrong Country because Text does not include [country]. There may be
many legitimate records in this, but you can quickly find the ones that don't belong.
Then use May be [Country] because text DOES include the [Country]. You can link the missing records up with the
country by pasting the country name in the [New Country] box. In this case you only want to fix the country you are
working on. Also it works best to start at the Last record and work back using [Previous] as everytime you remove some
records, the search gets smaller and pulls some records into your current search. This does take a bit longer to
search as it is looking across the entire database for missing country records.
When you have the Country Code correct, then you can use the Country Master Edit to standardize the Catalog Numbers. We
want to use the catalog system for each country based on the majority of collectors.
You can then pull up all of a Catalog Number, or get [All] to clean up all the catalog numbers at one time. Note use
the [Find Missing records] link for quick updating catalog numbers.
or [New/Empty] records where the catalog number is missing.
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