How Many Binders Does Your Collection Span?

I guess I forgot to mention all the boxes and plastic bins loaded with stamps to sort as well. That, plus my wife's collection seems to be getting bigger too.

Chimo

Bujutsu

in 3 years my collection has grown from 2 binders to 30.

plus 2 bankers boxes, 1 full of covers, and the other full of stuff I haven't gotten to yet.

WW
3 long boxes of filled glassine envelopes sorted by country.
2 Harris Standard Albums
2 Scott Blue Classic Albums

US
2 Scott Albums for Plate blocks
1 Scott Album for MNH
1 Harris Liberty for MH
1 Harris Liberty for used
5 Stockbooks for sheets, unmounted and duplicates.

I especially liked the shoebox count. I just gave away my "grocery bags" of stamps on paper.

Does anyone have trouble with their stamps staying in place in hingeless albums?

Only on open-top mounts. It's not a problem with split-back mounts. Unfortunately, I prefer the former. However, it is not a serious problem. If you find certain stamps shifting in open-top mounts, just push the stamp downward so that it fits a little more snugly in the mount. Of course, when you do that, then sometimes the stamp is not "well-centered" in the mount/box.

k, couldn't you just use a little tiny bit of a hinge to hold it in place in the middle of the mount? Or don't hinges stick to the inside of mounts?

I have seen collections in which the collector used an additional hinge to hold a stamp in place within the mount; so yes, the hinges will stick to the inside of mounts. However...

My reason for using a hingeless album is to avoid using hinges. If I have to use hinges to hold it in place, then I might as well hinge everything in a normal album instead of using a hingeless album.

Also, the reason I prefer open-top hingeless albums is because I like to be able to quickly remove and re-examine a stamp. Using an additional hinge defeats that purpose.

And of course, my hingeless albums are primarily for MNH stamps, so affixing a conventional hinge would make them LH.

I have 85 Binders/Albums/Stockbooks in Total.

11 for Cinderellas
7 for Flags
7 for GB
5 for Israel
3 for Bulgaria

and the rest for other countries/worldwide/themes/covers/'don't know what' !

On top of that there are 6 shoe boxes of covers; another 6 shoe boxes of covers but without the shoe boxes ; 6 Box files of covers,On paper,small envelopes of 'I don't know what' and Clippings [not 'on piece'...clippings !]; All that lot are in the bedroom closet along with a ton of journals,magazines,information leaflets and the wife pesters me every day to 'GET RID'.

Also, there are two large drawers in the lounge with oversize items and stuff waiting to go into albums ! [I call them retirement drawers because they are only added to !]

I also have a great affection for little boxes, especially the ornate kind. I have a number of these and some have stamps in too.

[But don't tell the wife !!]

Londonbus1.....auctions anyone?

I only collect US...

I do happen to have one UN Binder, 98% full.
3 UN FDC binders

I have 2 Disney topical binders, I promised those to my daughter.

For my US:
1 Scott Regular issues
2 Scott Commem issues
1 BoB
11 FDC binders
2 binders housing a Mystic state quarter collection, with several pages per state with
all sorts of state related topical stamps mounted within.
1 binder housing a Mystic presidential dollars collection, again, with topical stamps.
1 postal envelope binder
5 misc binders with sheets, booklets, advertising cover, postal history, cinderellas, etc...
1 old stamp album, my father's old one, from the 60s, now housing duplicates.
1 very nice Lighthouse stock album with leaf separated pages and such, for my top notch duplicates.
1 Harris album, I got as part of a collection I purchased, that I still have to empty out.
(I took out the 'good' ones already, but it's full of common stuff.

I have several other empty albums that I got as part of the collection I bought.
I'll probably never need them though. They are on a bookshelf...

The albums that I actually have stuff in, that I listed above, are in a trophy case.

How many binders ? In my case probably too many..but theres always another one waiting to get started !!

1. United States (1847-1989)
2. United States (1990-2000, BoB)
3. Australia
4. Canada
5. Liechtenstein
6. Poland
7. Latin America & Scandinavia
8. Ships/Watercraft and Nudes & Pin-Ups (WW)
9. New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana (US)
10. National Parks (US)
11. Nondenominated Postage (US)
12. Love & Special Occasions
13. Chris Calle Engraved Stamps (US) and Baseball (WW)
14. Stock (US)
15. Stock (US)
16. Stock (US)
17. Stock (WW)
18. American Revolution & Bicentennial (WW)
19. American Revolution & Bicentennial (WW)
20. American Revolution & Bicentennial (WW)
21. American Revolution & Bicentennial (WW)
22. Native Americans (WW)

I think that's it... I'm not at home to see what I missed...

Right now I am at eight..

2 Volumes of Harris Liberty for US
2 Volumes of Harris Ambassador for WW
2 Volumes for US Plateblocks (although I never seriously collected them)
2 Stockbooks for dupes and Chile/Egypt

I have just started the process of re-organizing onto Steiner pages, so I plan on 3-4 for US, 1 for Chile, 1 for Egypt, a stock book for topicals (although I haven't yet decided what to pursue)

I have a Minkus All American with ShowGard mounts and a Lindner for my US
I have 2 Lindner for 3rd Reich
I have one Lindner each for West Germany and West Berlin
I have 3 Lindner for UN, New York
I have 1 Lindner for UN, Flag sheets
I have 2 Lindner for UN, Geneva
I have 2 Lindner for UN, Vienna

I have a mess of things that need an album home someday.

I'm at 23 Lighthouse albums at the moment but I just bought a 12 volume collection which I will find time to absorb into my collection some day plus many containers of stored extras and unprocessed material.

I don't have enough albums/binders to keep my stamps in.. But I have 5-6 at least. My stamps are mainly in large envelopes and as I sort them, I put them in smaller envelopes within the large one.. :( Certain types which I have 500+ duplicates I keep in smaller boxes.. My unsorted German collection (probably 4000-5000) are in two larger boxes, waiting.. and waiting..