GB And Australia Album Advice

Hello Everyone, this is my first post here.

I am looking to move my secondary collections of used Great Britain and used Australia from their current 1985 Stanley Gibbons one country pvc albums to something newer and of higher quality. I would like to go up to approx 1990 issues.

My main collection (KGVI) is housed in 8 volumes of the Seahorse Philatelic Publishers George VI series and I also have Canada to 1991 in a Davo Luxe album. So I have familiarity with these 2 brands.

The easy answer here is to purchase Davo but I find that it wouldn't be comprehensive enough for my GB stamps and there are irritants with things like se-tenant pairs in the newer issue layouts. That aside, the general quality of the album itself is good.

I have spent some time on Stanley Gibbons website and find myself worse off, there is near zero information in their album section and it would be buying something blind imo. The lighthouse website while better offers almost no insight into layouts or details of the pages either, not to mention its approx $2500 here in Canada to get both countries to 1990 since they only have pages available with mounts.

I would appreciate any recommendations or perhaps pointed in a direction that would be helpful.

Thanks
Chris

Hello. The standard SG GB album is the Windsor, which is still available in the non-hingeless form that's much to be preferred for used stamps. Looking at the attached, £260 would buy four volumes running to 1995.

https://www.worldstamps.co.uk/searc...der=0&page=5

Hi Chris, your Collection sounds very comprehensive! Good luck with finding the right albums.

Chris,

You didn't mention Palo. Any reason?

Jack Kelley

Thank you Geoff and Jack

I have checked out the Paloalbums website and the Premium pages look very nice, I dont think the color illustrations are a good idea so Im going to order 1 album in black and white without mounts just to see how I like them. Cost wise it seems inline with Davo so that is fine.

Im assuming the pages have a Scott layout which will be very helpful in entering stamps into my inventory program.

Looking at the list of countries they have pages for is very impressive and opens up options for the future.

thanks again.

Palo's GB albums follow Gibbons's arrangement. That shouldn't be too different from Scott, as GB hasn't really issued air-mail or charity stamps, which is where the silliness of the Scott system kicks in.