Sharing My "New" Collection

I finally found some D-Ring binders that I liked. I've been wanting to divide up my collection into different volumes, from the single binder that it's in now.

I have an awful lot of stamps put in in those old 70's style Scott mounts where you slide the stamps in and out of either side of the mount for display. This was before I became aware, or just before they started making the mounts with the slit along the back center where you flip the bottom up to remove the stamp. Many stamps in the older mounts start to work their way out, or fall out, after the pages have been turned many times.

I threw away the idea of re-mounting hundreds of stamps long ago.

I haven't lost a stamp yet and I'm not going to. Dividing my collection into separate binders means I don't have to turn as many or all of the pages anymore to get to where I want to be. I divided my collection into 5 binders with about 40 pages each, so only the pages in one particular binder need to be disturbed in trying to get to a certain page. Besides, It looks neatly done compared to the "Single Album Theory".

First step, out with the old album...(I kept the Stamp Collecting Merit Badge)...



Here is the new divided set...



No more having to grab on to the end of the pages when I close the album to prevent the holes on the last pages from tearing. The pages lie flat, and now so does the whole cover...



The front of each of the Regular Issues/Commemoratives albums are adorned with US Scott #1, the first US stamp...



For the Air Mail, I just couldn't resist this take-off from the old Led Zeppelin I Debut Album for the front. Here, the crash symbolizes the tendency of the USPS since 1988 of putting images on Air Mail stamps that mostly have nothing to do with Air Mail, air, or mail...



Thanks for looking. Hope you enjoyed.


-IBFS

I have been thinking the same thing. Mine currently has over 200 Vario pages in it, and is a bit unwieldy.

Looks Great!

Love the Led Zeppelin album cover too :)

Nice display!

Nice job, Braker. It was only after buying two Official Collectors' Binders (at Official Collectors' Prices) that I was passing thru my local CostCo ... low prices for batches of 1/2" 1", 2", 3" ... calming words about archival materials, etc. Live & learn.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

That's gorgeous! Great work.

Awesome job! I too have been thinking of tinkering with my binders and storage and may do something similar? Looks great!

Great Job.

Love the binders where may I ask did you find them

Dianne

No waste of time there. It simply look fantastic!

Did the clip-on label holder on the album in the first photo of this thread come with the album or do you have a separate source for them. I have been looking for some label holders like that to identify the contents of my albums.

Thanks.

Don

A place called Stamp Paraphernalia. This was what I saw on the internet...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-5-Airmail...400146155824

They are listed as 1-1/2" binders but when they came, I saw they were actually 2". But they still worked for me. I talked to him on the phone. Swell guy.




Don-- I found this for you...

http://www.officesupplyking.com/Pro...5DMgodRyIACA

You might call the place and ask if they have different sizes. You hit it on the head... "clip on label holders" were actually the perfect words to type into Google. I wouldn't have known what to call them.

Mine was a very old binder. I got it about 1986 from the VP of the business I was working for. I'm sure it was older than that then. I wanted to buy the thing but he told me that it would cost him more to sell it to me than to just let me have it. So he did.

I got it so I could throw in the trash the original 2-post Scott Minuteman Album and so the pages would lay flat. Also I would not have to take the whole thing apart to add supplement pages.

There's most of the story on the old album. Hopefully I won't have a story to tell about the new ones in 30 years.


Hope this helps.
-IBFS

I get all my stamp supplies from Stamp Paraphernalia. I agree the service is great and they don't gauge on shipping.

If you don't do ebay, they have their own shop:

http://www.stampparaphernalia.com/

While I am not a customer of "Stamp Paraphernalia", I do know a collector who is ... he swears by their products. And, as I recall, they are located south of Oklahoma City and were caught up in one of the tornadoes that struck there a couple of years ago. I believe they had to temporarily move their business.

It looks great. I am in the process of finding the best way to organize and present my collection at the moment, and it seems you have found your way to do so here.

Brake for Stamps:

Thank you, thank you. I've been looking for a source for these for a long time. I'll order some and see if they are as good as they look.

Don

Love your new layout and organization. I must do something similar to mine; while I have good pages and layouts the number of pages per binder really should be trimmed down...