How Do You Display Your Postal History?

I have this dilemma on how I should display my postal history collection.

Up till now , I store them in the vario two clear pages. This method helps me to display the cover in a way that I can see the front and the back sides. The drawback is that I cant put information about the cover.

If I plan to mount them on pages, I could put the information that I need , yet I wont be able to see the back side (unless I scan the back cover and display a small picture on the page).

your thoughts? How do you store yours?

Aren't the Lighthouse stock-pages firm enough to accommodate a typed or handwritten piece of paper inserted into the section with the cover? If not, black card interleaving, with a typed or hamdwritten note about the ensuing cover. This would also have the benefit of setting off the previous cover.

Different collection, but this is an example of what I mean. The black divider on the left contains the information (sparse in this case) about the material on the right. The divider also has the effect of providing a better setting for the material that sit against it on the right-hand side.

While I have yet to do this (maybe 2018?), I'm thinking of interspersing a page of printed content between each of my Vario 2 sheets that describes the covers on each side.

Alternately, as a fan of the Lindner approach...you can use their pages, which can be bought with all differing sizes and numbers of "pockets", allowing you to view front and back and writing any detailed comments you choose on the page behind the item.

I do what you state in the second part of your initial post. I will mount the cover using photo mounts on my album page. If there are any relevant markings on the back of the cover that I want to have displayed, I will scan/print/cut a copy of what I want to show. Then I will go ahead and hand notate any information about the cover. While it is not always standardized, it is a labor of love and shows the individuality of my collection to anyone who may happen to stumble upon it.

I use corner mounts on card stock and page protectors. When there is something on the reverse, I'll scan that and print it on the preceding page. These pages aren't finished, they will look like the Mendocino page when done.

I create a page for the cover and then use sticky corners to hold the cover in place. I then place the prepared page in a page protector and put it in a binder.

I prefer everything "all in one" so I scan the reverse side onto my page.

Everyday photo corners are OK for run-of-the-mill, $1 covers & cards, but for more serious material "Transparol" photo corners are the go

One way I figured it out on how to display

tratz - an interesting thread - and you arrived at a beautiful solution! Very nice BM cover by the way.

Here's what I did for my Postal history section in my Luxembourg album. Guess it's kind of a very simplified version of your solution

Some wonderfully creative ways to display. Thank you for sharing...

I also do write-ups about my covers and the people who sent and received them. I guess I'm what is called a 'Social Postal Historian'
Here are two examples of some US covers. On the actual pages the covers are mounted with clear photo corners, as with the second page here, but the first page is a digital version with scans.

Jamesw,

Yes I do the same with my De La Rue New South Wales covers. Researching the addressee is relatively easy if the recipient is in NSW as all of our 19th century newspapers have been digitised and are free to access.

NSW birth death and marriage records from this time are free to search and cemetery inscriptions are abundant.

Education in NSW only became compulsory in 1880 so, since my collection stops in 1888, then the addressee is usually (but not always) easy to find.

@jamesw - that's some marvelous pages and covers, well done!

All of you have creative ideas of displaying postal history. Whether to show the transit and the arriving postmarks and writing information about the senders and the recipients.