Show your DIY album pages

That's the trouble with English/ French spellings. I've always seen it as toque.

I purchased an accumulation of Lighthouse mounts some years ago, these are the only mounts I have ever used.

Stan 
stainlessb

I like your pages, simple and well done - the important info is there for me and you use 2 catalogs - great !!

René

and another  some of the stamps have very heavy obliterations... but it is what I have-

3 pages to go until I catch up to the 1893-1900 issues with delivery/non-delivery tabs (completed).  Once thats done, back to France, or maybe start Austria, or some of the German States (the minor states may only take a few pages to complete!)

Vintage Album Page Headers
Customized for Use on Hagner Stock Sheets

Most of you know by now that I formerly used pre-printed albums, but I have switched in the last 2-3 years over to Hagner stock sheets.  But I like the look and feel of vintage album page headers, so I have tried to incorporate those into my collection.  I started by simply cutting out the actual page headers from old albums that I bought in mixed lots, but the main problem there is that the original headers are too big vertically to fit neatly on a stock page with 7 or 8 rows in it.


Composite image showing original vintage album pages (circa 1901-1909) and a few other headers at the top, and images printed from scans at the bottom.

So, I have started scanning and reprinting the headers, which allows me to reduce the size so that it will fit into pages with shorter strip heights.  I have also learned how to further customize the headers by manipulating the images.  As you can see in the photo above, some pages are split between two countries.  In those cases, I am able to use MS PowerPoint to modify the images to create a header for a single country out of one that originally had two.  I find that it works quite well.

Opinions are welcome, of course.  I can also show more detailed images of my work, if anyone is interested.

I will remain a "simple" DIY guy until stamps do not interest me anymore........KISS (keep it simple.......)

As long as you have the data on your stamps in a controlled computer environment.....and you can refer to it anytime

René

Thanks for your kind comments, Mark (madbaker) and Peter (brightonpete).  Mark, is this image below what you meant?  This is an example of my first page for Germany now, with the newly printed header.  I also got some nice old ivory-toned blank album pages from Michael (Londonbus1) that I use for the headers.  Modern white paper just didn't look right.... it's too bright.  I really like the look of the ivory.

Very nice Clive.

I agree on binder quality, I know in the business world (likely main consumer) they are a commodity and price (so cost) is king. I have some Lighthouse binders but their ring mechanism is not that robust.

It's been more than a hot minute since I've shown progress on my Canada Page Layouts for my Vario Album, but tonight I finally finished up laying out the Admiral issues and integrating them into my pages that I had already made.  Result is over 8 pages of Admirals for my album, covering pages 25 through 33 of the volume.



I prefer to follow as strictly chronological an order as possible, so the Admirals are split up with sets for the 50th Anniversary of Confederation in 1917 (I did put the OHMS version of this issue with the main issue, rather than have a 1 stamp outlier several years later), new printings of Special Delivery and Postage Due items, etc.  Also a tried to parse out the Wet and Dry printings into separate groups based on the appearance of Dry print varieties starting in late 1922.  Also worked in the OHMS perfins within the regular listings, created spaces for both Wet and Dry versions of OHMS values where such differences exist in the main stamp listings (although Unitrade does not parse the wet vs dry printing differences for the OHMS issues, logically if a stamp exists with both print styles they should exist for the OHMS perfins I think. In any case I made space for them, and the search will begin - which is half the fun of collecting!)