Germany---Ddr , Little Red Book 1953

Need help in writing up album page for the 1953 DDR ,little red book , it contains 10 pages with each page having a postage stamp printed on it from the 1953 set that has Marx and Engels . The book is much like the Little Red Book of Moa . Do collectors save the book or do they cut out the proof like stamps and add them to a album page ?

I can't imagine taking the stamps from their original context.

Here's an ebay listing for the book:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/KARL-MARX-JA...em5afbf54567

I agree with KGB - for what purpose would anyone cut out the stamps? Imperfs (or souvenir sheets) of this stamp series are readily available for purchase.

I agree with KGB and Jenny2U; cutting this item up would be a mistake.

My two copies of this book sit in boxes. While the price was was right, they are on my list of "why did I ever buy it?" items.

Thanks for everyone's input ,the book will be mounted intact in my Cinderella collection .One interesting note is that my pages are more tan colored and on rough paper and not the white or cream color that the scans show . thanks again ...........sitting around today waiting for the stamp auction firm to call when the lots I am interested in bidding on .

I agree with the previous posters. Whatever interest it may have, it would be as a historical item left intact.

These stamps were all issued in a S/S as imperfs. Cutting out the pictures would create a confusion with the actual imperforate stamps.







Dan

Thanks Dan , I do keep a separate collection on anything that someone can purchase cheaper and cut out and claim it is something else .A few months ago, I cut the cover off of a stamp auction catalog and reduce the size of the pictures to make it look like a souvenir sheet ,and offered it here as a unknown discovery . It didn't go over too well but the point was made . Like your sheet above ,it would be easy to cut out the stamps and offer them on the internet as some kind of trial-poofs at ten times the price of the sheet above .