Hello "crazed"
Out of curiosity, in what part of the Country do you live?
Just some random thoughts - the advice you received about the cost of Victorian era stamps is very real - even to get a respectable collection of Canada and the Provinces is going to cost plenty and almost impossible to complete if that is your goal. George V is also expensive, but you can have a lot of fun with that period with all the varieties that exist. With Canada, for example, the Admiral issue has lots of varieties - I've been working on this issue for the past few months and have just obtained most of the basic Unitrade varieties - still many to go. As others have said, George VI is a wonderful collecting area and most of the stamps are still affordable and most can be found on
ebay and other sites.
As far as albums go, my own preference is for Vario 7 pocket pages. If I'm able to acquire complete sets, I mount them using Lighthouse mounts on quadrilled paper interleaving them with the Vario sheets in Lighthouse binders. This is a simple system; but not an inexpensive one as the binders, mounts and pages do cost some money. But they look good to me and I've tried a bunch of alternatives with results that made me less than happy.
Have fun!
Posted 08/13/2018 1:47 pm
