World Stamps Early 20th Century-How Should I Proceed?

Tsmatx,
Had I known you had an interest in these I would have given it to you. I removed the remaining pages in order to scan them, and chucked the loose empty ones.

Yes, antique stamp albums are collected/collectible.

On the tangent of Captain Tim, there are 3 major covers.
The upper left type has 66 pages.
The other two and the "Adventurer Album" all have 128-130 pages.



I have two copies of the lower left album, with different title pages the first is headlined on the title page: "The Ivory Album for" (on yellowing newsprint paper) and the second is ""The Adventurer Album for" (with fairly nice paper). There are some other title page differences, beyond what I want to do here.



To do a full study of Captain Tim and other Harris albums of this period, I would start with Wayne Youngblood's article on Captain Tim the "American Philatelist" about 15 years ago.

Not just here. Philately is a very exact hobby; "simple" collections are only so because the owner has chosen to ignore one or more details: for example, the Stanley Gibbons color key describes ~200 colors used over the centuries for stamps, changes in perforation can be measured down to 0.06mm, and some cancelations were used for only a few hours at a single post office.

Hi Nora,
GRACECHURCH STREET (LONDON) (A Branch Office)

I believe the "L1" in the hexagonal duplex half
refers to a code "TOO LATE" for whatever service the sender was trying to achieve.
(To catch a certain Coach and four, for example)

This code is pertinent to Gracechurch Street Only.
see correction in later post

Rod,
That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. What a great thing, to know that! That's the past coming alive, right there.
Thanks. You made my night.
ADD: And thanks Nora, for asking about that cancel!

If you plan to collect in stock books, why do you feel the need to keep the integrity of the falling apart Harris album? To sell to antique albums collectors?
For used stamps, I'd go with Nora's recommendation, remove and soak them to clean and remove hinges and album leftovers. It will also enable you to correct and straighten folded corners.
If some of them are mint-hinged - I'd cut the hinges and try not to soak them, depending on their condition. I'm a novice WW collector too. Very novice.

This is what I wrote:

"My question is, how would you collectors suggest I remove them from this dirty, damaged book and transfer them to a better album."

I said nothing about preserving the integrity of the original album. It's a complete mess.

I'd go with Nora's recommendation, remove and soak them to clean and remove hinges and album leftovers. It will also enable you to correct and straighten folded corners.
If some of them are mint-hinged - I'd cut the hinges and try not to soak them, depending on their condition

Thank you RR. This is what I think I'm going to attempt.

RobRoy,
I like your thought about smoothing out the corners. I also think a lot of the perfs will clean up. There are stamps with nice perfs that appear to be a little soiled around the very edge.. So I hope they'll clean up.

Also note that the two Russian stamps in the Finland section that have overprints are from Siberia, which at the time was a breakaway from the Bolshevik government.

The 9p Jamaica George V stamp catalogs over a dollar, most of the others not so much, and are often sold by the pound

Thanks, Willwood!

Many thanks for displaying

"Many thanks for displaying"

Pleasure's mine. Thanks.

After exhaustive searching, finally found information on the
GRACECHURCH (TOO LATE) Hammer impressions.

I was thinking they did not exist.

Note: correction, L1 code also used at Mark Lane and Ludgate Circus
mis-posted articles.

Still up for confirmation, (I am still a student of this discipline)
but here you go.......

Rod,
Man, thanks for this. I really appreciate you finding that. I find it so interesting. It's much earlier than I thought. I'm glad that so much of the cancel was on the stamp. I have been looking for examples of this stamp. It seems the more valuable ones have am "IR Official" overprint. Am I to understand this stamp was doubly employed as a postage and tax stamp?
Again, I thank you, Rod222.
Stephen