Show Us Your Completed Album Pages!

I know this to most definitely be true in my case. Since I am unable to read my own script, I no longer write letters by hand ... instead I rely on a computer, a word processing program & a printer.
On the other hand, my wife's handwriting was both beautiful & elegant. As was she in so very many ways.
Recently I completed upgrading the following page from used with so-so centering to MNH XF+. The last one acquired was the 5-cent denomination. Common stamps, some of which are in not-so-common condition.

Lovely, just lovely. Best Washington Bicentennial set I've ever seen...


John

mootermutt,

Thanks for your comment!!

I do use a color code for different types of stamps. Definitives are on beige, commemoratives on green, plate number coils on white, and back-of-book on a variety of different colors: dark teal for semi-postals, blue for airmail, gray for special delivery, orange for postage due, etc. The border, fonts, etc. did take some time to find something I was happy with. While I enjoy seeing the complex and beautiful pages that others here make, I wanted something simple and utilitarian that would make the stamps be the stars of the page and wouldn't require a huge investment in time and research to create pretty pages. I know that once I'm gone and the collection is sold off, the new owner(s) will simply strip the stamps from the pages without a second thought.

I do design and print my all of my pages as many of the different varieties I collect aren't represented by commercial stamp album makers. The pages are 8½ x 11, offset slightly to the right to accommodate a three hole punch and printed on sturdy 110 lb card stock. It did take some time to get the size of the printed boxes to match up with mounts, but once I got the right size I was able to copy/paste the boxes for subsequent stamps. Every now and then, I'll get a stamp that I don't have a space for and am able to quickly redesign the page and print it out with the change(s). The real challenge in getting the mounts well aligned also took time, but now it's fairly easy to get them nearly perfect.


Scott

I know I should sell off the second set of each page, but they were my late father's and can't yet part with his collection.

I have some stamps, but my main collection is UK Telegraphs. I like this page, It has a telegram from a private Telegraph Company, plus the delivery envelope, plus the receipt given by the messenger for the 6 pence porterage fee. You only see the top half of the telegram sheet.

Lovely page Old Marvel !

Do you think "Badger" "Lady" et al, is telegraphic code?
I checked Universal Commercial, Electric Telegraphic Code
(W. Clauson-Thue) 1881

No success there, but the message appears to me in code. (Solicitor)
Comments?


PS : New nomenclature for me "Porterage fee"

UK
Electric Telegraph Co Stamp

Comments: 'porterage' was a term for the cost of carrying a telegram beyond the free delivery area. The GPO continued to use this term after the UK telegraphs were nationalised in 1870, and run by the Post Office.

I have an accompanying letter which also refers to 'Badger', so there is no doubt in my mind that it is the name of a person.

The stamp shown was issued by the 'United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company', one of the smaller private companies. The letters 'INT' (an overprint) stood for 'interest'. These stamps were issued to shareholders in lieu of a dividend for several years, as the Company was in a poor financial
position.

Thank you.
Lots of meaty information there.

Code Name Badger: The True Life Story of a British Secret Agent

John E. Cottell, Arthur Gordon
HarperCollins Publishers, 1924 - 384 pages
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The fantastic story of a British spy who survived both Buchenwald and Lubjanka prisons in Moscow.

Just for clarity,
I was referencing "code" not only as perhaps a device for anonymity,
but mainly as a code for reducing the word count (cost)
of large messages telegraphically.

I don't collect Italy but I do collect many of its series and themes.
I rode these two yesterday. They are simple and almost current series, there are no rare or valuable stamps, but it is what I like and what entertains me, as well as being cheap.

Thanks everybody for showing your pages ,it is a joy looking at the album pages you put together .

I believe it is safe to say most , yes most collectors never get to the point of mounting their purchases into a organized album pages . It is sad to say most collectors spend a life time accumalting their stamps but there is always a reason they never mount them ,you can see this at any major stamp auction .

Many times you see a estate lot at auction with very expensive albums or self-printed albums but the stamps are in a seperate stockbook or are in glassines between the pages of the album . Sad ,someone spend the money but never found the time to sit down and mounted them .

Lately I've been doing a lot of work on my pages for postmarks of the German Colonies. They include pages for each post office, each naval vessel and shipping line calling on the colony, railway postmarks, auxiliary markings, and censor markings. Here are a few samples:

Those are very impressive pages Postmaster; they do appear a lot of work, but the results are something else!

Those are really spectacular Postmaster. Works of art.