Booklets - love 'em or not?

some do quite well- several different years of the France Red Cross booklets are pricey and not that easy to find (despite relative high print runs).  They are a PITA to display. In the case of the France Red Crossbooklets I was able to make a page with a cut-out, as the cover was larger than the stamp pane. photo corners on the back side, and the stamps show on the front. Fortunately not much printed on the inside of the booklet cover, and what little is on some, I simply made a notation of it.

With booklets that are stapled together or 'bound" I think that would present more of a challenge (not to mention if opened is bigger than the page!  Fortunately I have not got too interested in other France booklets (the early ones are $$$)

This is how I have arrange mine.  I thought I was looking at one of my own pages.  More modern one are displayed as shown in your other photos.  My long term plans for the modern ones is to add a single stamp as well. That way I can see the stamp with out having to pull the booklet out to or even break the seal.

David

I've never really collected booklets, but I got a whole bunch of Norwegian booklets in an auction where - amazingly - nobody was paying much attention to the Norway offerings and I was able to get them for considerably less than I should have had to pay.

I haven't thought out exactly what to do with them. I've never liked having souvenir sheets and stamps on the same page, and with Varios it's pretty impossible anyway. I break up the single-country collections into segments (for instance, between World Wars I and II, constitutional changes like going from a monarchy to a republic, or every 15 years or so for countries - like Norway - that I keep up with all the way into modern times). I start the page numbers over with each new section.

I've been doing that more largely because if I make a large mistake and have to add or subtract a page, or move a block of stamps over to the next page and keep on doing that, I only have to repaginate 20 pages, not 80. I'm experimenting with putting large items such as souvenir sheets at the end of the section where they belong chronologically, and it makes sense to do the same with booklets. I'll go with Vario 5's (five rows a page) for them, and they'll look a bit like what dgdecker showed us a couple of posts before this one but without the vertical mid-page seams (which do look helpful).

Unfortunately, there is no ideal way to display booklets; it's either the cover or the page inside, but not both. The thought crossed my mind of making a color copy of one leaf of the contents and putting that next to the actual booklet, but something about that idea strikes me as too bizarre for me to deal with for the moment.

Three members of My stamp club are serious collectors of booklets especially if there are plate numbers. Two collect GB and the third collects France. For modern ones eg Prestige booklets they tend to buy 2 examples, one to display complete and the other to " explode " to show the text and the various panes included in the booklet. For older ones they will hunt dealers' boxes for empty booklets to collect the outer covers or info pages inside.

Never saw the fascination myself, but each to his own>