What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

I received 7 Lighthouse binders from various family members for Christmas to add much needed space to my U.S. plate number coil collection. I spent some time designing and applying new labels to the binders. I have more than enough pages already designed and printed out to fill 3 of the binders, but now need to continue adding more pages as I have hundreds of more strips to add to my collection.

Wow those are some nice binders..

I started typing up an inventory of the contents of my two Vario F binders of random topicals. Those pertaining to runes and runestones had already been inventoried, but the rest of them still needed to be catalogued.

My topical collections of Esperanto and other International Auxiliary Languages (three Vario G binders) and J.R.R. Tolkien (two Vario F binders plus overflow) are kept separate and already catalogued.

I also use Vario binders but have resisted the urge to use different colors so I can always change contents so stuck with one color.

Those binders look fantastic. One of my National binders is showing its age, about 60 years old. It would be great if these were two post so I could drop my back-of-the-book pages into a green one.

Only takes five minutes to convert the pages with a hole-punch!

Looks great, Walkman. Next year, I should get my family coordinated the same way!

Just a question, including the slipcases, what is the total height dimension, and the depth dimension on these? My shelves are somewhat constrained without a lot of work redoing them. Around how many pages do you place in these binders before you get another?

Thanks for any help you can give. Those shelves really present well.

Rebuilding my some of my auction templates and related files after I lost some files. I dropped my newer laptop on the floor on the 26th and really busted the hard drive. It makes an interesting clacking noise. I had some files backed up, but not some newer files. I recovered some info off ebay and will have redo others which is part of today's fun. Luckily, I didn't lose any images as I have them all uploaded on my ftp site.

The newer laptop that's in the works will have a SDD drive this time. It should be a little more solid and secure and I'll have an external automatic backup drive. My January auction will probably be pushed back to February.

SSD is a smart choice for a laptop.

Not a pleasant look, IMO.

Boxcar1954 - The binders are (approximately) 3" wide, 13" tall, and 12" deep. I actually searched for and purchased the bookcase specifically for my binders. I use 110lb card stock for my pages and can generally get around 80-100 pages in each binder. Hope this helps.

Scott

That does help indeed, thank you. Of course the shelves in the closet, installed by the homes' previous owner, are thus about .75 inch too short. Will be sure I accommodate your dimensions when I redo them. I am using Avery Binders now, and although I use Scott mounts for everything, I think it will be about the same capacity as you cite since my paper is slightly thinner at 70 pound Domtar Buff stock.

I confess I have been happy with Avery so far, but as the collection grows in size and value, I think the Lighthouse binders are worth it-with the slip cases.

Thanks Again!

Roy

Without the slip cases, my Vario pages would just get loaded with dust.

The three topical collections that I have housed in Vario binders are all color-coded. Esperanto and other International Auxiliary Languages are in green, because green is the (official? unofficial?) color of Esperanto. J.R.R. Tolkien is in red, because of the Red Book of Westmarch (I'm such a nerd). And other random topicals are in burgundy, because... they just are.

While not strictly philatelic in nature, this morning I watched the movie "Charade" staring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. In the movie, the characters are searching for an envelope with some of the world's rarest stamps on it. The Swedish Treskilling Yellow, a 2 cent Hawaiian Missionary, and the 1858 Romanian 81 Parale Blue were the stamps involved. It seems ironic that Audrey Hepburn starred in this film as she became the subject of one of philately's great rarities in 2001 when she was pictured smoking on a German stamp that was never issued. Several made it into circulation, though, and are now worth a fortune.

Good movie, but my reaction was always "How could these people not notice the stamps?!" But I suppose that's what normal people would do in real life.

And that kid always annoyed me, too.