Sample Slab Book - News

2025-07-31

3rd Edition - Volume 1 (NCS, NGC, and PCGS) is done, proof copies are being printed at the Print-on-Demand (POD) sites.

Look for the "official" release at the Slab Collector's BoAF (Birds of a Feather) meeting at the ANA WFoM in Oklahoma City.

The cutoff was 2025-03-31 (still after FUN before CSNS, but 2025 for realsies).

2025-06-13

A new white paper, "How To Collect," content extracted from the 2nd Edition, to save us all on printing costs.

2025-03-26

New white paper about the renumbering/ retirement of the PCGS-025-4-## samples has been posted.

2023-08-10

Updated versions (and a new one) of the White Papers have been posted.

A really bad (but automatically generated) sample of the Sample Slab book, 3rd Edition, was shown at the ANA WFoM BOAF meeting (which I was unable to attend). At least this time the front cover was on the front of the book and the back cover on the back. Progress.

In all seriousness, a lot of invisible progress. The database now has 1,234 items. The cut-off for the 3rd edition is 31 March 2023. And the book generation is mostly getting pagination right. There are a couple of edge cases where it's doing funky image sizing. But the remaining work is mostly finishing the data entry, the cross-referencing and proof-reading. With over 500 new items and many older entries revised, LOTS of proof-reading.

2022-09-17

Site updates to the main page. Added the International Numbering and Submission links.

2022-09-08, 2021-12-14 and 2021-11-13

The 3rd version of the Whats In / Whats Out white paper has been posted off the main page. v1 was a bad idea. While v2 was better, ... v3 actually seems complete. And of course the 1st version wouldn't download from the site either.

2022-01-08

Site font changed from Google's Raleway to Spline Sans - I just like the look better. That's what you get for reading random newsletters and sites on the web. Also added some preconnect stuff for crossorigin.

2021-11-05

Added Dark Mode

2021-10-30

Cloned copy of Cameron Kiefer's SampleSlabs.com - updated to more modern html, but minimal changes to content - added after the original site went down (it's now back up)

2021-10-18

The site moved here to https://sampleslabs.info/