How Many Albums Do You Have -- 2011

Following Andrew's suggestion, I'll create a new poll for those who already voted in the 2009 Poll

How many Albums house your collection (including stockbooks)?

I have 5 USA, 5 UN, 5 Canada, 1 stock book with 1 page of British Antarctic Territory.

KirkS

And here I go again, with some more detail!

So, I have:

- 17 stockbooks (7 with 60 pages, 9 with 32 and 1 with 16)
- 8 albums (1 of the albums is a Norwegian LT album but is being shared by a number of countries until it is full)

Breakdown by country:

- Canada (5): 3 Davo albums until 1999; 1 LT album thereafter; 1 60 page stockbook for minisheets I don't have mounts for in the Davo albums
- Portugal (5): 4 32 page stockbooks and 1 60 page
- Macau (2): 1 LT Macau Post album (for 2000 forwards), and 1 60 page stockbook
- Netherlands (3): 2 Davo albums (specialized Dutch pages) for post 2005, and 1 60 page stockbook
- Sweden (1): 1 60 page stockbook; and LT pages for post-2006 stamps
- Norway (2): 1 60 page stockbook; and LT specialized album for post-2007
- UN (1): 32 page stockbook
- The remaining stockbooks (6) are a mixture of everything else I have

I'll soon be adding 2 60-page stockbooks that will substitute 2 of the 32-page ones.

I have 21 stockbooks, and a couple of shoeboxes of irredeemable rubbish.
Barwani: 4
Cochin: 2
Jaipur: 2
Jammu & Kashmir: 2
Other Indian States, one or part of a stockbook each
'Other' (Afghanistan, Indian revenues, China and other detritus I've gathered and couldn't bring myself to get rid of): 4

U.S. Precancels 7 albums
U.S. 12 albums
U.S. Perfins 1 album
WW 2 albums (large seemingly dust collectors)
U.S. 7 60 page stockbooks
Cinderellas 1 60 page stockbook
and about 20 boxes of mostly U.S. plus ????
Remember, anything over 10 is obsessive

Hi

I do not use pre-printed albums. For the 50+ years I have been collecting I have only used blank quadrilled pages and regular non-vinyl binders. I originally started with a Scott Modern for US and a Minkus World Wide. A dealer in my home town who was mentoring those of us in the school stamp club said get rid of the albums and use the quadrilled pages (note: he did not sell pages so an aunt sent them from New York). I have now at least 20 binders and not one page of pre-printed. For a few countries this works well as one of my pages may contain a stamp, its varieties and a cover. I do have a friend who collects world wide and uses the same system, he must have at least 100+ binders.

Jerry B

Not much has changed since the first episode.
Except the secret place in the bedroom is no longer secret !!

Londonbus1.....and those drawers are still the same !

How you keep something secret in the bedroom, for this long, amazes me!

I have a couple of binders for FDCs and covers but I'm thinking of substituting them by a filing box or else I'll soon have big problems with space, and I'd like to not overdue it... I'm already using almost 2 rows of a shelf.
But if I use a filing box, I'd probably need to buy some protective sheets to conserve the covers. It would occupy a lot less space than a bunch of binders though.

Oh lets see. I have

- 7 for the Continent of Africa (all 16 pages ones)
- 7 for the continent of Asia (6 16, 1 60)
- 6 for the Continent of Oceania (all 16)
- 6 for the combined regions of Central Asia and the Middle East (5 16, 1 60)
- 12 for the combined regions of North America, South America and Central America (11 16, 1 32)
- 17 for the continent of Europe (12 16, 3 32, 2 60)
- 1 for the combined region of the UN and Antarctica and the Arctic.
- 1 for the Sovenier Sheets
- 1 holder for large sheets

There is also 3 60 page ones that are empty and need to be filled alongside 2 16 page ones. There are also 2 smaller ones (8 pages) that are just there alongside one 60's book that needed to be cleaned for stamps.

So in total I have 60 stockbooks at my disposal.

6 for overprints
17 for Africa
3 for misc sets that I enjoy collecting
1 for Airmail etiquettes
11 for Germany
1 for omnibus sets
2 for Australia
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Total of 41
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Listed in order of enjoyment at present.

+ 4 empty folders I got from an Op Shop
+ 12 packets of Hagners waiting to be populated

Well let's see if I Can get this right
Canada 2 + 3 stock book
US 3 + 2 stock book
Japan 2
Netherlands 2
Poland 2
Hungary 2
Autralia 2 + 1 stock book
New Zealand 1 stock book
Austria 2
Germany 3
Denmark 1
Vatican City 1
Venezuela 1 Stock Book

All these are albums that I printed myself with the exeption of the US wich is a Mystic 3 volume Album.

The remainder of my collection is stored by Country in 50 small boxes by country and 8 photoboxes 2 of wich have about 260 envelopes of different Countries.

Dianne

My shot at this..
USA 2 Albums first one from 1800+ to 1989, second album 1990-2010
World - 3 albums , 1 worldwide general, one Australian, one Indo-China, and a stock book or two to contain the ones I haven't sorted yet.
Cover albums x 7
4 or 5 misc stock books, mostly empty (waiting for stamps)
My collection is not large at all. I have very few duplicates, and very few World Wide stamps. Since I have limited my WW collecting to GB, colonies, Canada and Indo-China, I am just selling the rest off.

Right now I am working on putting together a Great Britain album. My philatelic new year's resolution is to put a hold on all stamp acquisition (aside from trades) until I get some serious progress made on what I already have.

It's worth a try anyway.

I have one Mystic Heritage album, one Mystic Lotta stamp album, two stockbooks and 4 homemade binders, and about 4 shoe boxes.

I enjoy the Scott Specialty and National pages and the smaller Scott 3-ring binders.

I have a total of 30 albums to house my US, Canada, Germany, Vatican City, Great Britain and Monaco collections. I use 3 Scott Internationals, parts I-III, for my WW collection to 1955 and also use 6 Lighthouse cover albums for my FDC/cover collections.

Has anyone else made the resolution not to purchase any new items until all stamps and covers are catalogued and mounted in albums?
I wonder how long that will last!

Lou

If I had made that resolution, it would mean I would never buy another stamp !

Londonbus1......I'll leave that bottom drawer for now.....