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.
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