How To Organize World Stamp Collections....

The Ambassador Album was my next album after I out grew the Discovery Album . I got my Dad to buy the Discovery Album for $1.00 from another kid who was quitting stamps .The Ambassador Album was purchased for $3.00 years later at Woolworths .

I would like to give a opinion on how to organize those 10,000 stamps but would need more details on what he is trying to do ,is he looking to sort and place them in a album or stock book or are they duplicate heavy or on paper ,have no clue what is his end goal.

End goal needs clarifying, yes. But, not sure. It's evolving as I go... I bought some mixed collections and (literally) three paper bags of mixed world stamps. I enjoy sorting although it took hours and hours. So, now I'm grouping by continent and in some cases country by just stashing the off paper in envelopes and placing envelopes into shoe boxes. As I learn about these world stamps I am discovering a few countries that I'd like to collect in more detail... I'm setting aside a couple of countries to trade with a few other collectors through the post. The organization that I'm evolving into right now is shoe box by continent with envelopes from individual countries within that continent and mixed. For example, I have too many Europe stamps so for now they are grouped by Eastern and Western and Northern, just my own groupings. Later I'll split them out when needed.

At this stage, might be best just to get a stock book and start organizing alphabetically at first to get you going.

I have a pretty huge all-world collection. I figure that the most economical way to keep them is in 64-page stockbooks, but I don't have enough stockbooks, so in the meantime I sort them into envelopes by country, with the shoeboxes of envelopes sorted by region.

Some countries get their own shoebox, or even two, as I have so many of them -- Germany, US ,Canad, Australia, Turkey, Japan etc.

No idea how many stamps I have -- must be a million or more. I should buy less and sell more!