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Post by gillian on Jul 18, 2021 21:10:59 GMT
I came across a stamp from the St Thomas & Prince Islands in a pack of stamps gifted to me by my son. When I went to mount it in a stamp album I discovered that not all my albums had a place for it.
I have the stamp albums which my husband and I had as kids growing up in the 50s and those indicated that stamps from these islands should be mounted with stamps from Portugal.
I no longer use those albums, just have them as memorabilia, but I have four other albums. One, printed in 1979 has no page for St Thomas and Prince Islands, another, printed in 2005 also has no pages for said islands. In a third album, printed in 2004, the islands share a page with another country. The fourth album, which belongs to my son - who no longer collects stamps - also has a page devoted to the islands plus one other country.
My question is, does anyone know of any particular reason why stamps from these islands are not given space in some stamp albums?
Just curious.
Gillian
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darkormex
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Post by darkormex on Jul 18, 2021 21:54:13 GMT
gillian , if you are working with a general world-wide pre-printed album, they can sometimes be skimpy on space for smaller countries or island nations such as St. Tome & Principe. Below is a photo from one of 3 old HE Harris Ambassador albums that someone housed their collection in.  As you can see, there are only 3 stamp images plus one vertical blank area and a long horizontal blank area that seem to be associated with these images and which you could use for St. Tome & Principe or for St. Vincent or even for St. Pierre & Miquelon above it. It doesn't really matter. The only way to really add space to one of these types of albums is to go to the publisher and order blank pages of the same design and incorporate them into your album. I use to have an old HE Harris Traveler album and did just that. The blank pages even came with country labels that I could add to the top of the blank page. I buy old albums like this and I often see this as a solution where there is not enough space for all the stamps you might have gathered for a given country.
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Post by gillian on Aug 8, 2021 13:05:51 GMT
Darkormex, I do not have a problem with where to put my one St Thomas and Prince Islands stamp. My question was why this nation is not mentioned in several of the stamp albums I have. It's the first country I've come across that isn't mentioned at all.
Like I said, I'm just curious.
Gillian
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renden
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Post by renden on Aug 8, 2021 14:13:17 GMT
It is mentioned in an old 1943 Scott Junior International Album where St Thomas and Prince have lots of stamp spaces, some filled by my stamps - I agree with the fact that WW Albums (certain) do not have it.
René
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Post by angore on Aug 9, 2021 10:37:33 GMT
I had never heard of the country but did check Steiner and he has pages for them. From www.worldstampalbum.com/main.aspx?Mode=2&Index=0&pageid=195São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about 140 kilometers apart and about 250 and 225 kilometers respectively, off the northwestern coast of Gabon. |
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 9, 2021 11:25:12 GMT
It is possible gillian that in some stamp albums where several small countries appear on the same page, it its not listed alphabetically under "S" for St Thomas & Prince, but listed under "P" for Portuguese Colonies. |
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Post by gillian on Sept 13, 2021 19:36:03 GMT
Silly me found them in all my albums, with stamps of mine even mounted there. I don't know how I missed them when I looked again
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