Question about Collector's Sheets (Smilers)

Waiting for the pic of what you are referring to........a sheet can be many things......my souvenir sheets (S/S) fit well in Scott Albums and are also Mounted
Thanks - René

Thank you elfstone99 !

What is the size of this sheet ? Very Nice

René

They are A4 size. That's what the problem is for me. The entire sheet won't fit on a Scott Specialty page. It's too tall. I have about 10 of these collector's sheets (Bond, Tomb Raider, DC Comics, etc). 

I use Vario pages for such sheets. I have several binders, organized by country and/or continent. You can find pages that can fit A4 format and even a little bigger.

The A series of paper sizes are standard internationally accepted over here …...Except in USA of course which does its own thing,! Hence the problem.

Use an American album and A4 does not fit

The most common sizes used are A3 , A4 and A5. Each is exactly half of the previous.

For renden ‘s information GB smiler sheets have first class stamps + a selected illustration label which is appropriate to the stamp series but has no extra postal value. Royal Mail produced these often in association with a major stamp show.

The first two caught collectors by surprise and went astronomic . Issued at the time Royal Mail was privatised and for a short time adopted the silly and unrecognisable name “CONSIGNIA” . Later ones were gimmicks simply added to collector purchasing costs (if they wanted complete ness) and breaking down to individual stamp+ label defeats the purpose , wasteful destruction. The actual stamps on the sheet are available for less as mini sheet or block of 10 anyway .


trying to fit items like that in a conventional album is why I design my own , use sleeve protectors , and store all my stuff in box files.

simples! 

I'm actually a little curious where the term "smilers" originated for these sheets. For me, that's the first time I've heard that term in philately.

EDIT: OK, I see that is the term that Royal Mail uses on their website. One more new thing I learned today. Likely to forget by next week...

The 'Smiles' and 'Smilers' obsession on the GB Philatelic scene started back in 1990 when Royal Mail issued the first in a series of 'Greetings' Booklets (1990-98) which showed 10 smiling faces, those that are shown in the sheet shown by michael. The first booklet had values of 20 (p) and was reproduced as the third Greetings Series Booklet in 1991 with a '1st' value.
For the 'StampShow 2000' at Earls Court in London a service was made available for the first time in the UK whereby one could have their stamps personalized in a sheet of 10 stamps with their own labels attached. Royal Mail also issued a generic Sheet (the one shown above). The stamps chosen were the same stamps used in that 1991 'Smiles' Booklet so the term 'Smilers' was lovingly used by many or most even though subsequent sheets had no connection to our facial expressions !!
It is an endearing term for such a series.
From 2006, RM issued a series of Booklets which contained the Teddy Bear design from that series but in a definitive format and these too became known as 'Smilers' but with the Booklet addition !!

Complicated isn't it ? Well, not really but a huge money spinner at the time. Today, most of the sheets can be found quite cheaply with a little searching and buying at below face is not difficult.

So, are we all smiling ?   

Just checkled E-Bay and they have  an array of A4 ring binders, sheet prtotectors and pages.... granted in quantities of 100 may be a life time supply...

I keep mine in a large tin, inside the original protectors from R.M. which came with the sheets (in issue order). Also in the tin are a couple of sachets of silica gel. I need just over 30 sheets to complete the run since the first issue. O.K. its not the same as displaying them in an album or folder, but you still have to open albums/folders to view the items & at least they are kept flat.