What Would You Buy? Album?

Sorry no pictures. Just taking into consideration that you have unlimited funds, what world/US you buy? Thanks!

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Unlimited funds sot of takes the fun out, don't you think?

I personally don't like anything pre-made. I have always kept my stamps in binders with home made pages. I use acid-free paper and sheet protectors and mount my stamps on sheets with minimal printing. It makes for a clean appearance and I can change anything at any time.
With US stamps, when I went from collecting singles to plate blocks, then to booklet panes or small sheets, It was easy to update one or two pages at a time. I can have several to many varieties of a particular stamp or pane without my albums appearing cluttered or sparse looking.
But that's not for everyone, I'm sure. Stamps are a wonderful hobby because you can organize your collection any way you like. For me, fewer restrictions are better. I don't have limitless funds, but if I did, I can't imagine doing it another way.

Unlimited funds...I would hire the world's foremost calligraphy expert to hand make pages on true archival, 100% rag based paper. I would then hire the worlds best book binder use the very best leather cover adorn it with 24 kt. gold lettering.
Don

Don! You've hit on my retirement project! Someday I plan on learning calligraphy and my ultimate project is some album pages. Have you ever seen any actual hang calligraphed stamp album pages?

Don's suggestion is good but it will be a while before you can start mounting stamps. With this you can get started faster:

If you wanted to start with binders with quadrilled pages, you could get the Frank Godden DeLuxe albums, though I'n not sure that Stanley Gibbons is still making them (not on their website).

If you wanted to stick to generic pages and have a nice three-ring binder, I'd probably pick something like this from Exposures:
https://www.exposuresonline.com/sho...tinum-albums

My biggest barrier is not money for stamps or albums, so much as time and energy! I would probably buy some more handsome albums, but that would be a relatvely small part of what I would do if I could. I'd like to do more research, writing up, cataloguing and generally broaden out my areas of interest.

Even with unlimited funds, I wouldn't change a thing. I would continue using what I currently have. Lighthouse binders with pages that I design myself. My collection is a bit eclectic in some areas and pre-printed pages would never work as I constantly change and evolve as to what appeals to me. I always found ready-made albums to be too limiting and the pages too thin. My 2¢.

If funds weren't an issue, I would buy the complete line of Palo albums in the hingeless versions. I would then have the world covered in albums based on the Scott catalog. It might take awhile to get them all, though, as they print the pages and add the mounts on demand. I'm sure that such an order would backlog them for quite some time and other collectors wishing to purchase their albums may have a few choice words for me.

If money were no issue, I'd get Amos to make all of the Minkus Global supplements available again.

Dale

For US, I still say Mystic is the best buy for the buck.

Jack Kelley

If unlimited funds, I'd ditch the day job and spend all the time I wanted designing my own pages with all the right apps and tools. Maybe nice padded album binders. To be honest, it is more about time than money - I just can't think that expensive.