Report on the Mail Art Networking congress with Ed Vamey and other participants (in and out) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada about "Artistamp Sheets"

This subject is very appropriate in this countn-. since Canada has a tradition in making artists' postage stamps, especially more than

one in coherent form.
Not accidentally Mike Didner, who worked on the big arristamp catalogue, was a Canadian. The late Bidner's former partner Rosie attends the discussion.
She is still trying to have Mike's "Bible" published, \von't however agree to a black-and-white version only wants to have the book in color. Ed agrees: black-and-white repr-oduction just can't show their beauty properly.

On the other hand, the costly production of color· CO~~~ stalny sheets Limits him to small editions, not to speak of a catalogue.

Opinions varied greatly as to whether one should combine cinderellasrarups and artistamps or not, like Anna Banana does.

On the other hand, this ma)r be the only way for most mail artists to have at least a few of their own stamps ever printed. Not only the expensive production, but also access to perforators makes artistamp production obviously an exclusive pleasure. Their great popularity makes them more easily marketable items, which means a problem for mail-art purists.