Best Binder For New "Thin" Country Collection

I recently decided that Newfoundland stamps interest me and have started buying them. I had bought the Steiner pages CD-ROM a while ago, so I modified the Newfoundland pages to include a Scott number under each square. It comes to about 20 or so pages. I printed the pages on blank White Ace page paper.

In my zeal I bought a Lighthouse 3-ring binder with slip cover which now seems like overkill.

Can anyone recommend a nice quality 3 ring binder (with slipcover) for such a small amount of pages? Does such a thing exist with a slipcover?

Went through a similar process a couple years ago, and didn't find something as nice as the Lighthouse binder in a narrow format. So I ended up collecting a couple more "dead countries" to fill the binder better :)

You could also add pages to include varieties, blocks and multiples, covers, etc, to help bulk up the album.

Amazon has a number of 3 ring binders less than 1". This one is 3/4" wide
https://www.amazon.com/Gallery-Leat...05887&sr=8-6
Don

I use Bindertek One-Touch Classic 3-Ring binders in evergreen for my worldwide stamp collection.


They offer a 1" binder, but it doesn't seem to be available with a slipcover. The 2" binder actually has a 1.25" ring size, so that might be small enough for just Newfoundland.

Robert

I appreciate the suggestions. None of them are grabbing me yet. The slipcase is a must.
Has anyone any experience with Amos's Universal 3 ring binders/slipcase? They're only $19 so I am suspect as to the durability.

I use the Amos three-ring binder with slipcase (item # SSBSBL, $19.99) for Vario pages. They seem OK, but I haven't been using them for long, so I can't comment on durability. They have a pocket for a label but it is only 1"x1" at the bottom of the spine, and they come in only two colors: blue and black.

Robert

I think gmot and Spain have good ideas. If I wasn't going to add multiples or covers, I would add countries to help stabilize the pages.

Have you considered joining the British North America Philatelic Society (www.bnaps.org)? They have a Newfoundland Study Group that does occasional virtual/Zoom meetings. I belong to both, since I started to build a new Newfoundland collection about 15 years ago, after selling the first 30 years ago.

Well, if you're willing to either reprint the Steiner pages on a different size, or buy preprinted pages, you could go with Stanley Gibbons or Schaubek, both companies offer thin binders with slipcases:

• https://www.schaubek.de/set-Genius-...herette-blue
• https://www.schaubek.de/screw-post-binder-slim
• https://www.stanleygibbons.com/shop...+Supplements

The SG ones (22-ring) hold 40-60 pages, the springback about 75 pages. Schaubek's screwpost model holds 40-50 pages and the ring binder one is just shy of 1.5" for however many pages that holds.

Again, thanks for the suggestions. I want to stick with 3 ring since I like to print my own pages. I really have no interest in any other dead countries, so I'm afraid Newfoundland is destined to stand alone. I used to have it tucked in the back of my final volume of White Ace Canada, but decided it merited its own binder. I say final because my Canada collection purposely ends with year 2000.

I recently bought a large lot that contained several dozen Unikeep binders, like this:
https://www.unikeep.com/binders-and...ing-binders/

It is a binder and slipcase in one, has provision for adding labels to the front cover and spine, and comes in several widths starting at 0.5 inches. And the price is attractive, too.

Those Unikeep binders look intriguing and useful for some other collectibles I'm involved with. Thanks, Germania.

BwanaBob, I notice you collect Canada and now Newfoundland. You may be interested in finishing the rest of the country with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia. The extra pages would also fill out your volume a bit more.
As far as albums, I love springbacks. Eespecially the older Stanley Gibbons smaller format strand and similar, as you can do the Provinces or small countries and add or remove pages with ease but they are becoming harder to obtain with time.

The best binder for smaller-sized pages that I've found is the basic three-ring Scott/Amos binder in blue or black vinyl. It's about $20 and it comes with a slipcase -- which in the world of stamp albums is a stone-cold bargain.

If you want a binder that's a little fancier and looks more like a stamp album, the green Scott three-ring Specialty binder can be had with a slipcase, too, but it costs extra so maybe around $50-60 for the two? It's narrow enough not to look quite as enormous as the larger three-ring binder they also sell. It takes the larger Scott Specialty pages, though. To deal with this, you might try what I've done. I print out Steiner pages and use them as the originals to photocopy onto all-blank Specialty-size pages. The result is larger pages with Steiner layouts on them.

Or if you can manipulate the Steiner pages to remove his borders (using a pdf to Word convertor program) and then print his now borderless pages onto actual Scott Specialty pages with Specialty border. Now that's a good looking album.

I get the all-blank Specialty pages from this guy:

http://www.albumpages.net

No1philatelist - thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have any interest in any of the other entities that became provinces. I had a special interest in Newfoundland because when I was a child a flight I was on had to stop there for fuel. I have vowed to visit there properly (and squeeze in a trip to St-Pierre and Miquelon).

Bwana: just a thought that you might consider adding St. Pierre as another country to go with your Newfoundland, since they are so closely connected. When I downsized my former worldwide collection, St. Pierre was the only solely French area that I retained.

It's housed in my North America binder that goes to about 1970, with US & possessions, Canada & provinces, Greenland, Mexico, and United Nations-New York. At least that's how I define "North America."