Album For Stamps, Post Cards, Newspaper

Hi,

It's your newly adopted son, Prince Afa.

As some of you may know, I've come back to stamp collecting. My main interest right now is US Airmail stamps up to World War 2.

Now, I just don't want to do a boring collection of the stamps.

I was thinking about having an album with 32 pages - each page would represent the airmail stamps in sequential order - i.e. C1, C2, C3, etc.

I already have C1-C11, C22 and others. Not sure I'll ever have anything for the Zepps, but that's for another day.

The idea is to put stamp C1 on Page 1 and populate that page with other stuff. It could be newspaper clippings, airmail covers, plate blocks, FDC's, currency from that time, etc. Each page would be a theme page for the time the stamp came out.

My question is: Would one of the "stockbooks" handle this kind of diversity?

Or is this just ScrapBooking and I can ask my sister? Of course, you'll pay scrapbooking prices which will leave your eyes bleeding...

Thanks again (in advance!!)

I would start with a stockbook as you are acquiring your item for each page. When you have enough gathered I would make my own page using cardstock of archival acid free quality and start mounting. Each page could be considered an exhibit. I think scrapbooking ideas could be helpful for this type of setup.

When I could not find any Lioghthouse (Leuchturm) pages to complete my Europa Sympathy issues -- as the older ones only come in something like 5 years put together which I do not need, I copied the heading of the pages and using Word I complete the "boxes" and this way I can put post cards, write-ups and info about the stamps. It makes for a nice page. When Phil shows me how to scan this stuff I will post some pages of my Europa stuff and, of course, windmills!
Jopie