For a while, I've considered doing a catalog, but in looseleaf form.
But very detailed.
So if someone wanted to collect one set, they wouldn't need the full catalog with thousands of pages, just the pages for that one set.
Having been through collecting a couple sets in extreme detail, It's a massive task, one that would probably never be truly finished for any year.
One of the catalogs I use in a different hobby has basically three sections.
Here's the set you can pretty much see from a short distance.
Here's the specialized listings, shades, papers, etc. Stuff a specialist would work on.
Then a section for most of the major plate varieties.
And occasionally a note that if you're completely nuts there's a book with still more detail
Something like that, with listings and pictures for the set with all the major variations, and additional listings for the minor and trivial ones.
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