Pocket Calendar
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Pocket Calendar is a calendar printed on a small rectangular card made of paper or cardboard, designed to fit in your pocket. The calendar itself is usually printed on one side of the card, featuring a period between a year or two years on the Gregorian calendar. On the other side of the card usually a large image is printed along with an indication of the year/s displayed on the calendar.
Collectors of Pocket Calendars often collect them according to the theme featured in the image printed on the calendar. Popular themes include Tourism, Railways, Zodiac, Cats and other.
Browsing the catalog
The Colnect Pocket Calendar Catalog can be filtered from the Catalog drop-down menu by the following properties:
- Countries: The country the pocket calendar was issued in.
- Years: The year the pocket calendar displays. For calendars having dates from more than one calendar year this is the earliest year the calendar displays days from.
- Themes: The theme(s) of the motif(s) on the pocket calendar. One pocket calendar can have multiple themes. Only the themes from the Colnect Global Cross-Category Themes List can be used. If you think a new theme should be added, please discuss in the Discussing Themes forum topic.
- Recently updated: Pocket calendars where at least one piece of information was changed in the last 30 calendar days. The last change applied is used to determine the change age of the calendar. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 calendar days.
- Newly added: Calendars added to the Colnect Pocket Calendar Catalog within the last 30 days. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days.
- Import Log: A list of all New Item Forms (NIFs) that have been imported since 2013. It shows date, the person who created the NIF, the coordinator who imported it, the number of pocket calendars imported, and the country of the pocket calendar. Please note that it is not possible to find the pocket calendars that were in the NIF, this information is not stored in the database.
The catalog also contains other properties to further describe the pocket calendars:
- Name: The name of the pocket calendar in English language. This should be a unique name (i.e. no two pocket calendars should have the same name). Do not use non-English characters, even if you use text printed on the pocket calendar. This field can contain a maximum of 60 characters.
- Series: The series, if any, the pocket calendar belongs to.
- Location: The city where this pocket calendar was issued. This is in most cases the seat of the issuing company.
- Catalog Name: The name of the catalog used for the catalog code. Currently only Colnect Codes (Colnect's own numbering system) is used.
- Catalog Code: A catalog code for the pocket calendar. The Colnect Code consists of the ISO 3166-1 ALPHA-2 code, the start year of the dates shown on the calendar, the main theme, a three-digit consecutive number (with leading zeroes where needed), and a two-digit consecutive variant number (with leading zeroes where needed). The pieces of the calalog code are concatenated by hyphens (-), only the number and variant number are combined with a dot (.). The variant number is optional and only used if there is another variant present in the Colnect Pocket Calendar Catalog. Example: RUS-1992-View-004.08.
- Variants: If a pocket calendar is marked as a variant, you can get a list of all variants of this pocket catalog by clicking on Click to see variants.
- Start date: The first date on the pocket calendar. This is often the first of January of the start year.
- End date: The last date on the pocket calendar. This of often the thirty-first of December of the same year as the start date.
- Printing Code: Some pocket catalogs have a code from the printer, sometimes one of the differences in variants.
- Size: The size of the pocket calendar in millimeters. Many modern pocket calendars come in the standard credit card size of 85 mm x 55 mm. This information is captured in the NIF in the separate fields of width in mm and height in mm and should be entered according to the main orientation of the pocket calendar.
- Print run: The total quantity of pocket calendars of this type that were printed, if known.
- Description: A detailed description of the pocket calendar. This may include information on how to distinguish variants.
- Front Picture and Back Picture: Both front and back of the pocket calendar should be pictured, as the back often contains important information about the issuer, author, motif, number and hints to determine the age. Please follow the Picture Guidelines.