Minkus Supreme Global Albums (The Big Red Thread)

Thank you floortrader and statesmanstamper; well said. To each their own. After having started out with Harris moving through a couple iterations I landed on Minkus. I like the stamps sorted by their issue date.

That said I have a National for US, Davo for Canada, Scott Spec for Germany, homemade for Hungary, and a Windsor Sovereign for GB.

I'm happy with each of the various brands and can appreciate both their qualities and their deficiencies.

The Binders I bought that I discovered on this forum cause me to repunch the black Vario stock sheets. They tend to bind or maybe the rings need a little Vaseline. (HA!) I have the Minkus pages, the Minkus binders, a lot of stamps but not much time. I prefer the old Minkus binders that are round rather than the new flat ones. I wonder if the flat binders are as tough as the old ones?
Are the pages sold by Nolo original Minkus or reprints on similar paper stock? Just before I discovered the 10 Supremes at a local stamp shop I considered buying a new set of pages but I saved some $ and didn't have to wait for delivery.

k7prz,

The Minkus parts I get from NOLA are the Amos reprints of the MSG. The paper has the feel of a light cardstock. Much nicer than the paper in the Master editions of 1958/1965.

Dale

Hello GT350Anny -

I finally found a NOS set of the Minkus China Update pages a while back. I believe they were dated 1974. The set I found were double sided for updating a Supreme or Master global album. My understanding is that the same pages were also available single-sided for updating a Minkus China single country album. The only unusual thing I noticed about the pages was that there were spaces for souvenir sheets, which aren't typically included in the worldwide albums or updates.

I had a saved search on ebay for years before the China Supplement finally showed up. My recommendation is that you do the same.

Over the course of years, I managed to update my Global Supreme album to the early 2000s by watching ebay and talking to local dealers. I'm still unsure whether there were Part II's published for 2000 and 2001 (the only supplements I'm missing). I've never found them and a local stamp supply dealer never created stock numbers in their system for them and insists that means they never existed. I'm not sure whether to believe them and I continue to keep my eyes open.

Varios are not cheap (was $35 when I started) but cheaper and can be used for aspects compared to proprietary expensive binders. We put our money in different. Scott did sell a cheaper 3 ring.

I repunch Vario pages if I put in a standard 3 ring binder. The ring diameter on a Vario binder is around 2.1mm and my 3 rings are 2.6mm. The holes in Vario pages are around 6mm with a standard punch makes almost 7mm holes This helps turn pages with less dragging.