Sheetlets Etc

Hi,
I just received the Mystic Premium hingeless album. The intent was to get my stamps out of piles of envelopes which the PO has been sending me for years now. I guess I had a standing order for a plate block and a single stamp but I have oodles of sheetlets of maybe 20 stamps or so depicting various special commemorative issues. Quite frankly, I hate to tear these sheets up and had assumed that there would be places for them in the albums. For example: Scott #4406 (Bob Hope) has room for a single stamp while the sheetlet has 20 stamps with a dancing Bob Hope and several pictures of him on the sheet. I don't want to tear that apart and save it as is but I guess I would need a blank page and a giant mount to put it in the album. The Hope stamp is a single, the Gulf Coast Lighthouses is similar but has 5 different stamps in a row on a sheet of 20. The album only provides for that strip of 5. The only sheets that are provided for are those with all different stamps. I guess Mystic made that call but how does the rest of the philatelic community handle this sheetlet issue? Do you tear them up or collect them whole?

Fred

I think I may have an answer to my own question. I will collect both the single and the sheetlet where I put the sheet into a stock book page designed for large plate blocks (3 rows per sheet). This only for special release sheets with commentary or pictures on them. The plain sheetlets like Scott #4416 (Eid) I will tear open and save the four plate blocks while using the inner row as my single stamp for the album. How is that for a self-created solution?

Many modern plate blocks are the entire sheetlet. Check your Scott catalog. Many of us saved some of the early multiple number sheetlets as a strip of pairs only to discover we were wrong and our plate number blocks were worth more as postage.

Hmmm, the new Scott's Specialized doesn't even mention Plate Blocks.