Do You Mount Extra Stamps Outside The Lines, Or ?

Hi,
I collect WW and they are housed on Scott's International pages going thru 1960. So far, all stamps are mounted in their designated spaces. However, I've got well over 1000 stamps for the time period that do not have "designated spaces". Of course most all of you have been in the same situation.

I do have Scotts quadrille pages (all now blank) installed behind each major country. My original thought was that any stamps (falling in the 1840-1960 timeframe) that does not have a designated space will be mounted on the quadrille pages. But now I'm wondering if that is my best option.

Scotts has a lot of partial pages and of course blank squares. So I could use those too.

My goal is to end up with neat and organized pages, and just am not certain what will work best for me.

So my question is, where (in your albums) do you mount those extra stamps?

I used the extra white spaces on some pages. I currently have 18 International albums (organized by country) and really don't want to be adding more. Like you, I also use blank pages to hold larger sets or for issues beyond my self-imposed supplement limit (after 1970).
Don

For BB album pages and the like....

As I see it, there are two major ways to approach the page presentation for already printed albums.

If the highest goal is aesthetics,then only stamps that have a space would be put on the page. (Stamps of the issue not on the page that one has would be put on a separate quadrilled page, or elsewhere.)


Page built for presentation and aesthetics

OTOH, if one is building a "working" collection for oneself with interesting extra stamps available- 2nd copies with stunning cancellations, shades, minor numbers etc, why not put them on the same page (if physically possible)? It is more interesting educationally, even if some of the aesthetics is lost. That is what I tend to do with my Steiner pages. (And, after all, how many people besides the collector actually look at the pages?)

No right answer, depends on one's priorities.

If this is the case, I would mount the extras on quadrille pages. I use labels I print out on the computer and paste them on the page with glue stick.

He hit the nail..... nothing look more beautiful than a Scott International 100% pure, that means no stamps added outside the box and only hinges used for mount the stamps. But then here the problem I have not yet resolve in 40 years start....... what to do with the others stamps.

You gone say I'm crazy, but few years ago I transfer all my stamps from an old 1967 ( I think ) part 1 edition, to the new one in 4 parts. And I'm seriously thinking to reorder part 1 in 4 volumes and transfer all the stamps who are in mounts in this set of pages with hinges.

It's sound crazy but it's 40 years that I think, think and think to find other solutions, recently I spent hours to try to design a new albums..what a waste of time.

So enough is enough I will collect the album I like and dislike so much instead of think and think.

What do do with extra, well as example I'm working on Hungary, I'm doing very specialized pages for the 2 first series , Josef and Crown, that will be host separately.

All other countries not interesting I will throw the extra stamps with duplicates in bags and sell them as kiloware, they are just not worth enough to loose time to sell them other way.


JKKBue have a great idea with his Stamps on Steiner's and virtual in Scott, If I was going that way I will do the opposite, or do I, wait I change again my mind...see it's a crazy thing..

But please for Hungary don't use Steiner's pages, he his completely in the ditch,( actually it's Scott who are first and Steiner's add more to the mix of confusion ) I'm finishing a set of better represented pages for that country ( for the fists series ) without borders that can't be print on Steiner's borders style and integrated with Steiner's pages

Here's an example of how I handle the 'extra' stamps...

I totally agree with JkjBlue..mine is a working WW collection and very few others have ever seen it. I do mount interesting varieties in the white space outside the lines, but try to keep things appearing neat. I will print a blank page to insert next in order if I have a lot...and I often do. Hey, it's for me!

Hi again,
Thanks for your thoughts on this. Looks like many are faced with the same situation. I suspect I will keep the Scotts pages as is, and continue to add blank quadrille pages as needed.

Am I the only guy who uses Avery self-adhesive labels?

I created a set of spreadsheets (not hard), so I can choose 1,2,3,4,5 lines of text inside of each size label.

It is easy to vary fonts, sizes, text alignment, etc, as required.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I'm a recent convert to stockbooks. There's never a problem of figuring out what to do with extra stamps, nor any problems with empty or expensive spaces. And of course you save the time and expense of mounts or hinges.

Depending on available space, I will go outside the lines on the Part I international pages. I find that it tends to break up a "monotony" of line after line of evenly mounted stamps. I've discarded my Part I pages for a number of countries (some Portuguese colonies, Newfoundland) in favor of blank quadrille pages. Then I resume use of the printed Intl. pages with Part II.

The Big Blue pages are particularly deficient in the Portuguese colonial area. I acknowledge that they're printed to allow for collection of the more inexpensive stamps; and also representative examples. However, I have many complete sets, with varieties, and the blank pages are the only way to go.

Here's another vote for coloring outside the lines. I will admit to how nice a clean page can look, but I am more likely to get excited about a page when someone has added relevant and interesting stamps in the white space. My Cape of Good Hope page, for example, has two additional triangles and is waiting until I can find an affordable woodblock to make number three.

I am amused that Stanley Gibbons felt it necessary to tell collectors using their worldwide albums not to do that. "WARNING. Nothing makes a collection mounted in a 'New Ideal' Album look more unsightly than sticking stamps on the margins of the pages outside the printed squares, as the balanced appearance of the the pages is at once destroyed…You will be repaid a thousandfold by the improved appearance of your main collection [if you use blank pages for other stamps]." What I find ironic is that while I like the Ideal albums, to my eye the spaces on their pages are more unbalanced than Scott, Minkus or Steiner. To each their own!

When I want to add a page in the album, I print it on a 8½x11 and place it in a plastic protector sheet ( with news holes) The plastic protector will replace the glassine. I sometime print on black Scott page ( may or not need glassine, it depend if something is on the back of the page before )

Ok, I think a lot about it today and here what I'm gone do

No outside the box
I will use a plastic protector betwen the pages of the album

In these plastics Protectors I will insert pages of quadrille paper

I will place the stamps who don't have space in the Scott on the quadrille

Main advantages: each broken series wild be on the opposite page , if possible at same high so it's easy to see.

Plastic Protectors cost less than glassine

If nothing to place, I just leave the Plastic protector empty

It will take more binders, more shelf space and will look more huge ( that's an advantage for me, bigger is better )

Pages of Scott will be preserved original.

I already printed 100 quadrille pages, I will make few tomorrow to show you , but here a drawing to explain

I use the MYSTIC album. In 2015, the USPS issued (reissued) a $.01 bobcat stamp. Scott cataloged it as 4672a. MYSTIC does not provide a space for the stamp so I just put it on the page containing 4672 (issued back in 2012).

Jack Kelley

I colored outside the lines as a kid... and mount stamps outside the lines as an adult!