28 • The American Stamp Dealer & Collector • April 2012

ExhibitingTIPS

Steve Zwillinger’s

Tip 63 - Be Creative in Exhibiting Long Envelopes

Many exhibitors are challenged and frustrated with trying to display a long number 10 envelope. It won’t fit horizontally and showing it vertically or on a diagonal takes up a lot of space. It can be hard to justify a single page for a single cover. Alfred Kugel, the individual who has exhibited more fequently than anyone else in North America (and perhaps the world), has successfully addressed this situation. He overlaps a short cover over a long cover. In Al’s own words:

“While some exhibitors suggest horizontal mounting using two pages, I try very hard to conserve space since I usually have a lot of material that I would like to show. Thus, I have often used long covers mounted diagonally since I regard them as easier to study than vertically mounted ones. Over-lapping is a technique that can be used when it doesn’t cover up something on the envelope below that is significant. It is especially useful to get two covers on a page in a single-frame exhibit….”

See Figure 1 for an example of how Al shows two covers – including one long one – on a single page from his Regis-tered Mail of the American Expeditionary Forces 1917-1923 exhibit. His technique doubles the material that can be shown on a single page.

Tip 64 - Use Color to Your AdvantageStriking pages makes viewers want to look closely at your

exhibit. One of the ways to make a striking page is to use color-rich items in preparing an exhibit page, as color attracts our eyes. Figure 2 from Sandeep Jaiswal’s Dhar Philately is a striking page. We may not think we are interested in Ac-knowledgement Due Reciepts from a small Indian Fuedatory State, but after seeing this page, most of us will take a second or third look to see exactly what this page is showing. San-deep could have showed these receipts on separate pages or he could have shown fewer forms to prevent overlapping, but his arrangement of these forms makes a page that elicits our interest.

Figure 2.

Figure 1.