How Many Binders Does Your Collection Span?

Cursus

Did you know that you can get new versions of the giant Yvert albums?

http://www.thematimbres.com/mobile/...tid=14061775

Geoff

I have been adding binders to keep the number of pages down. A binder stuffed with pages is not easy to work with and puts stress on pages.

i think 6 or 7, but I am combining 3 collections, mine from 30 years ago, my mothers and my inherited collection from my 95 year old neighbor who collected and inherited her fathers.

I appreciate that the Stamp Community Forum is primarily made up of stamp collectors, and I am occasionally amazed at the dedication shown by some of the advanced members in terms of size of their collections, number of albums, and making pages, and remounting collections from time to time, etc.

However, we postal history collectors also know how to accumulate and organize collections of covers -- which are certainly more bulky than those tiny little pieces of paper.

Of course, I still have my 7 volume Big Blue set to 1960, and a number of US and Israel albums, and something like 40 Avery 3-ring Binders with my better cover materials on Vario sheets, but the bulk of my collection is in more common postal covers. My focus at one time wwas to compile a reference collection of all 20th (and now 21st) century postal markings on cover from all Texas post offices, together with what I could afford from the 19th century Texas field.

I currently have THREE large Card File cabinets designed for 5" x 8" file cards, two with 14 drawers and one with 10 drawers, each relatively full (each drawer mostly filled, with some space for expansion at the back of each drawer - full capacity maybe 2000 postal cards or 1500 covers PER DRAWER.) I have another 10 drawer 4" x 6" file card cabinet which is suitable for postal cards which is slowly filling up and I move things around.

Since these file cabinets don't accommodate legal size (No 10) envelopes, I have several dozen shoe boxes, envelopes boxes and the like for these, And larger boxes with unsorted and un-filed covers for the proverbial "rainy day".

And NO, I have no idea just how many covers there might be in all this.

And this doesn't inlcude the multiple bookcases and ordinary file cabinets with reference materials.

And, to help explain it all, no wife to tell me I have too much "stuff" -- although occasionally my son steps in and points this out!

Mike

From where did you get those Card File cabinets?

Dkabq8:

One I had owned for many years, I acquired the other two about ten years ago from a Used Office Supply Equipment company in the Fort Worth TX area (sort of near me). I probably called 50 businesses looking for a used one before I found these two and they were the only ones I found (and at the same place!). Cost was on the order of $150 each at that time, a bargain. [New ones were available at that time but they were in the $1000 range plus shipping which was not cheap]

I discovered them first in a stamp dealers shop, where he had 4 or 5 along one wall with a lot of his inventory. For how I use them, they are great, but they are big, bulky, and ugly!

Here is a link to NEW one on Amazon that is similar (mine have 7 rows of drawers not 8.

https://www.amazon.com/Eight-Drawer...x8+card+file

Here's a used on one ebay - but cheaper. Others there as well, but shipping is the real problem.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-Drawer-ST...122258326990

Be careful as you look and don't get fooled in purchasing a cabinet designed for the old computer punched cards, as their drawers are about 4" and not tall enough for a postal cover.

Mike

rod222 wrote: "I'd like to see a scan of your Ivory Soap album." Sorry, I think there is a scanner on my printer. But I have no knowledge of scanning other than going to my local UPS store to create a PDF of documents that I can then forward over e-mail. I can try that if you want. Steve

Heavens, No.
but thank you all the same Steve.

Geoff: thank you very much. I use my old giant Y&T to house my Baltic 1918/40 First Republics collections and my Bohemia & Moravia Protectorate and the few Solvakia (1939/45) stamps.
The binders, together with the pages, were given to me by a, long time ago passed, good friend.
I don't plan to do anyhting else with the Y&T binders.

Hi, I have no idea how many binders I have, have a stamp room, another closet, and what I working on right now in another room.

Has to be somewhere in excess of 50 binders.

Stampmaster

26 years of collecting and my entire collection fits in one banker's box. Comes in handy during storm season living in Tornado Alley. Narrow specialization has its benefits.

Hi Arrows2Atoms, excellent point.

Stampmaster

Updated count:
5 Scott Nationals, 16 Varios G, 4 Varios F, 5 misc binders = 30 binders

16 Mystic Premium American Heirlooms (almost complete - 20th/21st Century MNH); 19th Century Used

7 Palo KGVI (one volume complete MH)

2 All American's (one with untorn jacket; one vinal) (empty but keep on shelf for sentimental reasons)


Jack Kelley

I have a room and a half. 11 bookcases, which houses 49 64 page stockbooks, five National albums, 24 loose leaf binders, 35 sheet files, 45 photo boxes with glassines and covers, plus a library of over 500 books, catalogs and probably 1,000 periodicals ranging back to the 1800s....perhaps it's time to think about getting a rein on it?

Oh, did I mention I only collect one country? I'd hate to think what it would look like if I did the world...