It is many years since I have been collecting and scanning in old Filofax/Lefax catalogues. It started with the 1937 catalogue that my late father in law gave me in the early 1990's
It went missing for a number of years, then I got involved in Philofaxy in 2009 and I was wanting to find it again!! Then in 2010 when we moved house to France, the catalogue was found inside one of our books!
Since then the 'collection' of catalogues has grown, helped by many readers donating catalogues or sharing scans of catalogues. Back in about 2015 Filofax UK lent me their own catalogue archive for about 6 months. Although our collection far exceeds theirs now!
When I've had catalogues donated to me from various readers around the world, I have often also been sent a lot of old (pre 1990) inserts.
It is therefore time to start scanning those in to build up as comprehensive archive as possible of all of the tens/hundreds of old designs.
They are very diverse in their subject matter from Film Exposure Record to Oil Well Record, to Minister's Monthly Record etc etc!
It isn't going to be '5 minute job' but I'm sure with your help, we can fill in as many of the 'gaps' as possible.
It will be interesting to see them once you have finished scanning/uploading. I miss how FIlofax used to have really useful preprinted pages for various niche topics.
ReplyDeleteAlways keen to see 'new' inserts...
ReplyDeleteI started my insert recreation using the little thumbnails in the 1984 catalogue, and have filled in the gaps using images trawled from eBay, from the 'Filofax Facts' book, and some scans gmax kindly provided.
So I have an almost full set of 1984 insert recreations, and a set using '1987 style'. For Personal & Pocket (even though Pocket wasn't introduced until 1989...).
They're not perfect reproductions, as I couldn't get the Bodoni MT font into GhostScript, but they are close.
I also have the FreeForm Management booklet (with Bodoni font...), and the FreeForm reminders and inserts.
All available (free for non-commercial use) as print-ready copy, imposed 3-up (2x2 for Pocket), double sided, to A4. Just ask.
Kevin, where can I download them? I am really into idea of recreating vintage inserts digitally.
DeleteI'm afraid I don't have them uploaded anywhere, but you can email me. There's an email address at the bottom of the second picture of this article about my insert generation:
Deletehttps://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2024/05/guest-post-using-filofax-organisers-as.html
Apologies for the somewhat 'cloak and dagger' means of providing an email. You might find the article interesting, and part 2, published a few days later.
ReplyDeleteWell done Steve - that will be a most interesting archive, but does involve a lot of graft. We're all glad you never took up golf!
I'm in the process of properly cataloguing my collection - another Herculean task (or perhaps in my case a Sisyphean one). I'll pull out any unusual inserts I find and see if they're needed.
Shout out to Kevin, who has produced some excellent reproductions. And of course, the late, great technical author Ian Robertson Sinclair whose book 'Filofax Facts' has informed much of the research on inserts.