Do You Use Vario Pages - And How Do You Organize Your Stamps On Them?

area66 - I've missed your latest contribution in this thread until today.... Thanks for sharing your ideas, it's always interesting to see different approaches .

area66
so did I having been out of town - great contributions but I still need a course on Vario....Blaamand will contribute it to me (maybe !) as I use my own bought software to make my Album pages - name of software withheld since the Forum Gurus do not like any name mentioned that would be "publicity" !

By reading the first pages of this thread, I feel that I ca understand the VARIO process without a course from Blaamand
Quite interesting, useful and a great choice !

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Don

Don !

Renden - I'm glad to hear that

I feel so... well... dull after reading all this.

For me, Vario pages simply provide hinge-less, snazzy display of most of my stamps. No special images or labels added. They just go in according to country/topic/era/etc and by size. And it is a PAIN when you run out of space and need to shift everything onto new ones!

But I have never had any issued with the pages. I'd say about 98% of the stamps do not shift (as long as they are not too large for the pockets).

Only customization I have are computer printed tabs to try and keep things separated.

Nells250 - Nothing is dull in stamp collecting! Your way is as good as anyones.



Well, yes it is always a pain if you need to re-arrange - but Vario pages is the easiest of any storage option in that circumstance! Simply add one page in between the others - and distribute the stamps from the page before and after onto that new sheet - done! That''s impossible in a stockalbum - it's impossible or at least very awkward on DYI pre-printed pages - and will require re-hinging or re-mounting on album pages. On a Vario page it is therefore actually the least of a pain of any opther storage solution - that's my main argument for starting to use the Vario pages in the first place.

One thing's for sure... they are GREAT if you have some degree of OCD! ;-)

he he - your absolutely right!
....and I'm guilty as charged

These are pages from my Dahomey Album for the 1913-1922 Man Climbing Palm Definitives.

First page has spaces for the Regular Paper set and shade varieties thereof, Second Page has spaces for the Chalky Paper versions and shade varieties thereof, as well as shade and other varieties to the issues 1914 Postage Dues and of definitives of 1915, 1917 and 1922.

OCD...hmmm maybe

OCD can be a quality ......not all of the time

Gene - those French colonials are looking marvelous on the Vario pages - and - the 3 stamps with SOTN postmarks makes no harm

I had originally tried to use Varios to keep my US mini-sheets but a number of them are just to tight. The mint sheet albums work better since two sides are open but due to their characteristics (static cling?) they hold them well. I want to look at the Vario Grande (9½x12) or Maximum (13x13) size pages.

Angore - I'm using the Vario Grande - and those extra centimeters in either direction makes a significant difference.
Only backside I can see with the Grande pages is that they are a little bit too large for scanning on a normal lettersheet 'household' scanner (as can be seen on my scanned album pages)