Posted 07/25/2015 4:55 pm
Charlton has remained relevant only because of the third-parties (several members on here) that have generated AMAZING back-of-book special sections.
Charlton's own editorial has evolved too slowly, kept blatant obvious errors in place for years, and had pricing that clearly was there to serve the dealerships and not the collectors.
To me the purpose of a pictorial book like Charlton is to be a guide to identifying varieties. And they remain depressing weak. More and more pictures, but little supporting text to let you know what exactly they are trying to point out as the variety features. Each variety should have a labelled drawing or picture to point out the key differentiating features for the variety. The improvement in the wide/narrow 50c is where they should be for ALL varieties.
Just look at the large number of "Is this an X?" posts on here to show how badly Charlton is failing at the education they have the platform with which to shine.
