Collection of Presidents

Interesting question, to which there is no easy answer.

Option 2 would be the "normal" way to collect, Chronological pages sets, series ,issue . Standard conventional and has its merits . It is nice to see a page or two of similar designs laid out for display.

However,

Option 1 is much more adventurous and individual . It strays from the traditional collection into the area of the Topical or Thematic collection where in addition to the stamps, you have the chance to use them to tell a story. Each president can be examined as an individual with a short biography of his life and times. You can then build up supplementary pages with stamps illustrating events that happened in his presidency, sometimes including covers of the period ( might be pricy for the early Presidents but more accessible with recent ones)

I can see your page or two of Lincoln stamps followed by some pages on Civil War and Emancipation, or Roosevelt with the depression the New deal and WW2 , Eisenhower the war general and the Cold War with Russia ...............the opportunities for expansion are limitless, or limited only by your imagination.



The choice is yours , but I know which way I would incline .

If it were me (and of course it's not me), I would like things in presidential chronological order. However, I really like the Prexies. So I would have those at the top of the page as the first stamp on the President's header page, or in a fixed place in the header -- at least you can have up to the last Prexie (Coolidge). That way you can sort of "preserve" the design consistency of the Prexies by having them in an obvious consistent spot on your album page. JMO. Enjoy putting it together!

Hi  bcuddy

I assume you are talking world-wide.  I would organize the "album" as:  Alphabetic Last Name, Year of Office and Country.  That way you can always find a particular president.

Jerry B

Jerry's question could be taken two ways, methinks. Worldwide presidents (all the presidents of the world), or US presidents, worldwide (I say as I just sorted a bunch of FDR stamps into my Argentinian correos aero stockbook). i.e. more than one US president has appeared on the stamps of other nations.

Of course, US presidents on US stamps could keep you busy for quite some time!

Ah, yes. I didn't consider US presidents on other country's stamps. Perhaps that would be an addendum on each president's section. I think I'll start with US Presidents on US stamps. The American Topical Association has a checklist of George Washington that contains 469 stamps. That could fill a binder by itself!

Apropos to this thread, I just received notice from the ATA that one of their upcoming presentations will be about collecting US presidents and election-related stamps, etc. There are, in fact, a number of interesting looking topics being presented by the ATA this fall. The online event is free, but I don't if for all or for ATA members.

americantopical.org/event-3993877

Thank you for the link.  I'll have to check this out.

As for an update, I have worked it out in my mind and I have a vision.  I'm starting to create some pages and I'll post some updates soon.

Ok folks, here is my first update.  I finally have the supplies I need, I settled on a design and created my first page.  Still a couple of holes to fill, but I'm working on it.
Custom made album pages with Showgard mounts.

A user on a Facebook group I shared this to pointed out that I spelled Lyndon wrong.  
In the future, I think I'll have to post the images before I attach the stamps so everyone can tell me where I messed up! 

I started with the more recent presidents, because they were easy.  Now I've gotten all the way to Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.  These are tough because many of the early issues are ones that I know I'm never going to get.  And if I do get them, am I going to keep them in this binder or is a fireproof lockbox?  So the question is do I include spaces for all of the issues knowing that I'll never fill them or do I skip a few of the earliest ones and just start where I know I can collect?  And then there are so many variations and reissues.  I think Lincoln was 4 pages!

But I'm still enjoying it.  Hopefully I'll post some more pictures soon.

That's kind of what I'm thinking.  I'm proceeding with that in mind.  I can always re-print the pages later if I change my mind.  It's just that it will affect the layout of some of the later pages and I don't want to waste the mounts.