Piece De Resistance On Steiner Pages .

floor trader your pages/collections are wonderful - I have been going through page by page. Great viewing and learning for seasoned and new collectors alike.

Thanks Mrita , I just printed up two more countries on Steiner Pages and hope to start mounting them , made up Monaco and Libya . Monaco will have a lot of Mint Never Hinged in mounts .

Just finish this page

Very nice pages

I especially like the page from Iran and the Queen Victoria

Dianne

Thanks Dianne , trying to show the new collectors how stamp collecting was seen back in the 1950's and 1960's . Back then the most popular way to collect was a Worldwide Collection .

To me as a collector it was always special to fill a complete page ,it was a point to show everybody where I was at , now it is a race to see how many pages I can add that don't show up in other peoples Worldwide Collections .

Due to the huge increase in the cost of stamp hinges , I am thinking of showing the underside of stamps mounted on pages with stamps mounted with Dennison hinges

Re the back of those expensively hinged stamps. Possibly apocryphal anecdote, More people came to see the spot on the wall where the Mona Lisa had hung in the days after it was stolen in 1911 than had come to see the painting itself in the previous year.

For many years I filled my collection with stamps from the 2 cent tables at many different stamp shows and stamp bourses around Chicago and the MidWest . Now to think that I would pay 3 cents for a hinge to mount them .

Heck, I did a whole exhibit with the stamps all mounted backward... It was on the stamp papers and those inked designs just got in the way. For some reason I never got higher than a gold and more often a silver with it. :)