Album Layout And Bob's

Hi gang,

Looking for a consensus on opinions here. And I know there will be lots of them . I'm at the point where I'm about to start generating album pages.

But, what do you guys typically do with your BOB stamps, not so much the revenue and postage due stamps, but the air mail and semi-postal stamps. Do you tend to put them in with the general issue stamps where they were in terms of date of issue, or is it back of book for all that stuff?

Dave

I keep airmails separate from regular/commemorative issues, pretty much keeping in line with how it is presented in the Scott catalog. It makes it much easier to locate a stamp and identify it. (That's my opinion for one, anyway.)

Hi Dave
I always but them in the back, but in chronological like the other issues. Usually airmail first, postage due etc. Sort of follow the catalogue listings.

HI Dave

I keep all my airmails, semi postals etc separate and behind the regular issues.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Hi Dave,

I have both. My Spain album is Minkus, so all the stamps are ordered by date of issue. What that does is force me to remember when certain series and stamps were issued. I don't particularly like that.

By creating separate sections for regular issue, semipostals, airmail, special delivery, registration, Insured, Postage due, etc, etc it makes it easier for me not only to find out where they go, but where they are.

That's my 2 centavos.

I MUCH prefer to put my Airmail at the end, after the regular issues. However, my Canada album has them integrated, by year, with the regular issues. I don't like them that way, but I live with it because my album "dictates" it.

KirkS

I definitely detect a trend here, that being they are BOB's so they go in the back of the book.

Cool And thanks.

Dave.

I follow Stanley Gibbons,
Airmails integrated
(I see no reason to segregate)

Officials, Postage Dues, Revenues, Pefins
each have a dedicated page after the normal issues.

Useful for those countries where sets extend across regular and airmail issues.

with Rod and CD. Stamps are stamps and should not be segregated, especially airmail, as they were available for use as regular postage. Now pretty everything goes airmail.

How so Cj?
do you mean for utilising printed Stamp Album
displays / layouts?
That I can understand, I guess.

I have always wondered why the US
chose to place air on their own.

I prefer to see airmail stamps alongside
their siblings of reg postage, give an overview
of the then current designs.

Rod, I'm agreeing with your "integrated" comment. Why break up a set, so that you might have eight values in the regular section, and then two or three values 20 or more pages away, in the airmail section?

Now, as soon as I type this, someone will pipe up with an example, but it seems like less of an issue with postage dues, and some of the other b.o.b. stuff. But airmails, at least, don't need to get moved to the back, in my mind.

Semi-postals? Obviously, we're on a slippery slope...

I keep stamps in Stockbooks instead of the regular albums, so I mix all of them depending on the country.

Hi

with Rodney.

If the stamp issue consists of regular and airmail issues I put them together, I don't separate them. If there is a special cover I even mount that with the stamps. I am the one that uses blank quadrille pages only so I have the freedom to mount whatever I wish on a page. My dealer friend said that when it comes time to sell some buyers will lower the price because of this practice. At least in the US the buyer wants to see 'Scott Catalog order'. Anything else is deemed a nuisance, therefore the lower price.

Airmails with no regular issue ties, Postal Tax, Postage Dues, etc. are relegated to their own volumes.

Jerry B

Wow! welcome to the club Jerry

Like you, I have free form Quadrille pages,
but I find I have to separate the covers
to another album, it tends to make stamp
albums bulky.
I do the same with cut squares and slogans.

My albums only have stamps, minisheets and multiples.

The only divergence are a few valuable first flight covers
mounted in my pre decimal Australia album.

I only collect back-of-the-book so my BOB starts at the front!