Collecting Miniature Sheets

Hello, out there!

Does anyone, on a regular basis, and with pleasure aforethought, collect Miniature Sheets?

Or am I alone in this preoccupation with objects at once more intrinsically interesting and satisfying than mere pre-payment labels?

Sperati.

I don't actively collect them as I think they are normally a money spinner for the postal services but if something comes along that I like I don't have an issue with buying them.

Hi

One reason I stopped Venezuela new issues. It seemed all new issues were issued in miniature sheets of ten and it was getting too expensive. However, I do collect miniature sheets for Colombia if the stamp designs are all different (currently being issued are miniature sheets for each province).

Jerry B

I'm not entirely sure what the difference is, if there is one, between miniature sheets and souvenir sheets; but I do collect souvenir sheets for South Korea. The older stamp issues (50s-70s) always seemed to have an accompanying souvenir sheet; however, nowadays only a handful a year are produced. I house them in Vario stock pages 6 per side.

At present almost all US commemoratives come out in a 20-stamp sheetlet format. I don't consider these to be truly souvenir sheets.

To me a souvenir sheet is a sheet issued as a commemoration of an event. For example, the 1947 sheet of two stamps for the centenary of US stamps.

I collect US and Panama mini-sheets/souvenir sheets only.

If they have hexagon shaped stamps or cancels on / in them.

Looking at canada listings on ebay I notice that Canada souvenir sheets sell well, used are hard to find. They are usually 2 or 3 stamp with extra art work around them.

Yes I collect minisheets, have several albums of them,
I am a collector not a philatelist, they represent
a moment in time, like all my stamps.
I have begun to place them in their pertinent place in
country albums, rather than separated.

There's no hope for me, I'll collect anything .

I'm not the biggest fan of miniature sheets. I don't go actively on the search for them, and I don't mind missing the miniature sheets in my country collections. The exception is when I use albums with a place for every stamp, then I have to fill up the places for the miniature sheets as well.

But since I prefer to use stockbooks due to the price and flexibility, miniature sheets mess up the pages. I tend to put them in their own stockbooks, and they don't become an integrated part of the collections.

Does anybody here have any suggestions on how to store them, and making them into collection in stead of an accumulation? I have been thinking about using something similar to FDC albums.

I think a person would have to either make their own paper page to mount the sheets on or use Vario or Hagner plastic storage pages with large pockets, which seems to be a bit untidy but flexible. You can stick a 2 or 3 pocket page in between the regular Vario 6, 7 or 8 pocket pages and they all seem seamless .

Too bad someone wouldn't make a page where you could place a couple of 6 sized pockets and a 3 sized pocket and then a 9 sized pocket or something. Velcro or self adhesive perl and stick (horrors) page parts.

Sperati interesting you should ask...for some reason I am buying Argentine sheetlets and souvineer sheets..there are a lot of them and they will never be rare or valuable.. You can't be the Sperati that forged the Guatemala small quetzals in the 1880's..you would be too old !!

If the current US stamps are issued in "mini sheets", then yes, I do collect them, but now I only get the ones that strike me somehow, by design or topic.

As for sheetlets, I love them. I don't have a whole lot of them, but in time I hope to get more. It seems strange that sheetlets are more popular outside the USA...

Puzzler: That seems like a sensible way to go. Thanks for the suggestion.

I am about to embark into a new (for me) Topical on 'Space' and after looking at a number of sites I have decided to stick to just collecting minisheets and perhaps souvenir sheets as they seem to illustrate the topic better than just solitary stamps.

I am not sure how I will display them yet, but initially they will go in x2 or x3 Hagners (or Varios) but I am guessing that eventually I will make album pages with background info. for each minisheet.

I love them:

I collect mini sheets for US - I collect sheetlets (20 stamps?) if I like the theme or appearance. But I am going to raise a similar question in another topic.