How Many Binders Does Your Collection Span?

@Stampman2002

Rein it in?!? Oh no, I think you need to double-down and go to three rooms.

Canada 5 albums 3 stock books
Zeppelins 13 albums

Southern and Central Africa stamps 11 ditto postal history 2; East Africa stamps 3; Zanzibar postal history 2; SWA postal history 7; German East Africa postal history 2; Baltic States stamps 4; Estonia postal history 11; Yemen stamps 4; Azerbaijan 4; Iceland stamps 2; Other Scandinavian countries 4; other stuff 3; pending filing, heaven only knows...! About 59 so far.

In 3 words, FAR TOO MANY

US Commemmoratives - 2
US Definitives - 2
US Back of Book - 2
US Plate Number Coils - 7
Other stuff - 5 albums & 2 shoeboxes

Where is the door?!

16 Mystic Premium's for USA
9 Palo's for KGVI Commonwealth
3 Davo's for UK
2 Davo's for Ireland
1 All American (empty but on shelf for sentimental purposes. The jacket still looks brand new!

Jack Kelley

10 Fat Scott Internationals
1 battered Junior IPSA - keeping for sentimental reasons
3 Scott Specialty German & related
5 Lighthouse - Canada & Germany (Berlin & BRD)
1 Canada Harris
3 Palos for French colonies and others
2 US - Liberty and All-American (My All-American still looks great too after so many years stored away)
Bunch of old Minkus for various countries
Plus lots of stock books etc.
That's all I can think of (away so can't check at the moment)...

Around 100, of which about half are from the French area and a dozen from the Commonwealth. Should go down as I get rid of material. I've disposed of most of my individual albums of continental Europe and the Americas over the last few months.

I have:

1) Russia: Russian Empire to 1991 (end USSR) in 16 x 22-ring red albums in slipcases - these use my own designed www.ruskystamps.com illustrated pages (880 pages)

2) GB: - Penny Black to 1952 in a SG hingeless Windsor springback album with slipcase

3) Canada: First issue to 20000 in 4 Lighthouse hingeless albums with slipcases

4) Romania: First issue to 1969 in Schaubek album (a work in progress)

4) Ottoman Turkey: On specialist PDF pages I bought online

I then have thousands of duplicates (e.g. I have 16 x 64 page stockbooks of just Russia stamps), also Hagner pages and about 20 other ringbinder type binders with banknotes, covers, odds, sheets, etc.

Let's see

1. 9 Albums of White Ace pages for US mint

2. 10 soon to be 11 Harris binders for Worldwide collection

3. 11 Scott or Minkus albums for Austria, Burma, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, French Colonies, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Ned. Indies, & Surinam

4. 8 binders of stock pages filled with revenues, cut squares, cinderellas, duplicates, etc


-david

Binders?... what about cartons, shelves, and rooms?

I just re-read, quickly, the entire thread. I replied in Dec., 2016 about the size of my collection. It's a bit smaller now since I've been downsizing my world wide collection.

The original poster, Cardinal Bass, asked a second question about plans for disposing of collections after one is gone. I think this is an important topic. I re-did my estate plan early this year. All my philatelic holdings will go to the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library to support their mission. An amount of cash will go to the APS & APRL.

"I've been downsizing " ---That is what I been telling my wife . Less stamps {sold off about 10 boxes of duplicates } but buying more expensive specialized collections .

I could never sell my stamp collection ,My girls and wife have instructions to call Cherrystone ,Kelleher and pay the flight for Vince from SANDFRAYRE {sp?} to give a buy offers.

I have over 200 binders and counting...…………….