Andy Pastuszak
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Aug 6, 2021 1:48:32 GMT
I'm curious how people feel stamp albums should be laid out. I find the entire idea of a "back of book" section silly. When I look in my album at 2015 stamps, I want to see all the 2015 stamps. I don't want to go to the back of the album to see the 2015 airmail and other stamps.
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Post by classicalstamps on Aug 6, 2021 6:49:07 GMT
There are a lot of "old habits" in the world of stamps. Why are certain things done in a certain way? Often just because that's how things have been for decades. If you like Scott catalogs, you typically don't question the "Back of the book" separations (<-- who came up with that name anyway?). Makers of albums and catalogs are typically not interested in changing much either. (some are not able to, because they are stuck in a pre-digital world). Having gone through all commercial offerings on the market, I can honestly say I dislike them all. So I went with designing my own albums. Here's a few pages from my Albanian album: (and to answer your question, I don't have a BoB section): Pages are double A4. Stamps on the right side, with relevant information on the left.      |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 6, 2021 8:26:16 GMT
I have been through the whole gamut of general albums, stockbooks, printed pages, quadrille pages , blank pages with headings and now I am with member classicalstamps, I use entirely DIY! My Samoa pages are minimalist, 120g weight light card, pre cut at the warehouse to standard album page size to fit exhibition frames ...I have to print them on an A3 printer as this gives me a slightly wider than A4 working area which is useful for longer covers, but it explains why they do not quite fit a standard A4 Scanner (see missing 1cm on the side of my scans below.)   I can include covers, postcards, and ephemera, such as this Cigarette packet silk. No boxy frames round the individual stamps, so I can add as many varieties of shade, postmark, etc as I can find. Only enough text to explain, (anyone viewing will not take time to wade through a lot of repetitive text). I do work chronologically in this collection as indicated by the SG catalogue, but see no point in writing catalogue numbers on my pages . I refuse to be hidebound by catalogues nor am I a slave to be dictated to by a printed album with all its limitations. Each page fits in a transparent protective sleeve and resides in a boxfile not an album. For my Tobacco collection with loads of ephemera plus stamps, like morten classicalstamps , I use double size A3 pages, but that is another story. Since it is a kind of thematic collection like JeffS ' "Citrus" , it tells a story and no pre-printed album page will be any use !! |
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Jerry B
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Post by Jerry B on Aug 6, 2021 9:26:46 GMT
Hi
If a stamp set contains Regular Issue and Air Mails and BOB I put them all together on a page. If only issued as Airmail or BOB, the Airmail goes in its own section and the BOB in another section. The BOB is divided by type.
It is one reason I prefer foreign catalogs as they don't split things up.
Jerry B
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 6, 2021 10:08:12 GMT
I would prefer to see general, airmails, semi-postal in the main section but then the question is where do you stop when BOB can include revenues and other fiscal issues (used to collect taxes) etc.
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Post by classicalstamps on Aug 6, 2021 10:14:30 GMT
I would prefer to see general, airmails, semi-postal in the main section but then the question is where do you stop when BOB can include revenues, etc. I stop when I want to stop. For each country, I look at "what's out there". Then I decide what to include. Like vikingeck I don't want to be a slave to a catalog. I gather a lot of literature prior to making my albums. There's so much information left out of catalogs.. often this is what makes the stamps interesting. The storytelling. |
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Aug 6, 2021 10:48:32 GMT
I don't like the separation between definitive, commemorative, airmail and charity ("semi-postals" for Scott) stamps. So, even when using Steiner pages, I place stamp pages following year order. Although some times it's a little complicate, it gives the collection a more coherent look. Samps of the same years, tend to have the same style. Postage due, I place at the back of the book.
As for offical stamps and other, I keep on different albums.
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stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 6, 2021 14:00:03 GMT
I'm also in the DIY camp
I start "at the beginning" and definitives, airmail, BOB, etc, are grouped together by denomination/year of issue as I want to see the entire series without having to hunt through countless pages for all of them. I also prefer pages that are not heavily populated and (as many here know) I like to see description, catalogue number, color and date of issue, date withdrawn. I also loke some 'backstory' about the stamp, reason for, or who designed, who engraved, printing-
basically, enough information so Ionly look elsewhere for info if I want to dig deeper intot he history of the stamp
My page designs would never be a commercial success, and that's just fine by me!
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Andy Pastuszak
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Aug 6, 2021 14:20:52 GMT
I'm working on my 2006 supplement for the US, and I really don't want to break up stamps. I just want everything together by year in date of issue order. If it was stuck on a package or letter to send something it should be grouped together, whether it's Airmail or Official Mail, or Postage Due.
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djcmh
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Post by djcmh on Aug 6, 2021 14:39:08 GMT
The historian in me likes to see the chronological evolution of the stamps issued so BOB like Dues and Parcel Post are inserted among the "regular" issues, while varieties like shades if known to be issued in a different year from original issue will be separated out to come later in the album. I use Vario pages so I have the flexibility to make my albums follow the principles I choose (see my posts in the DIY Album page thread to see my ideas in practice) thestampforum.boards.net/thread/6438/show-diy-album-pages |
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Andy Pastuszak
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Praying for my family and everyone in Ukraine.
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Aug 6, 2021 15:26:55 GMT
If it's a stamp issued by the USPS, I think it belongs in the front. If it's a revenue stamp, a tax stamp, or a hunting permit stamp, then I think it should be in it's own section or album.
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eggdog
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Post by eggdog on Aug 8, 2021 1:25:13 GMT
I make my own pages - or, more precisely, I use Vario pages with only stamps on them, and I type up identification, comments, and opinions on separate paper and interleaf them with the Varios.
Standard postage, semis, and airmail go together. Some other "back of the book" stamps - special delivery, postal tax - are mixed in if they fit well visually and don't dominate. I tried mixing Yugoslavia's many postal tax and postal tax due stamps in with standards/semis/airmails; the result was brutally ugly and I had to start all over. Postage due and official stamps stay in their own sections.
Occupation stamps generally go in with the country or area that's being occupied. For instance, Lombardy and Venetia go with Italy, not Austria, because if Venice isn't Italian, what is? And I try to put occupation stamps in chronological order as much as I can. Lombardy and Venetia scurry to the front of the book with the Two Sicilies, Modena, and them. Not that I have enough of the Italian States to make a difference. With Belgium, I stop what I'm doing in 1915 and put the stamps issued by the German occupation forces. The transitions can look pretty bizarre, but the chronology makes sense to me.
Moving the occupation stamps around like that probably wouldn't work well for people who study postal history and military history in relation to one another or who like to keep stamps with overprints near the originals. Keeping little chunks of geography together appeals to me the most.
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