Dividers Or Add-On Tabs For Scott International Albums?

Any sources for either dividers for Scott International album 9.25" x 11.25" pages OR add-on tabs for album pages? Thanks, couldn't find anything in either Search or on the internet, Amos or otherwise ... appreciate any help,

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APS ------ I never seen commercial made dividers for Scott International binders or tabs . I do have cardboard spacers between one set of Internationals these are about one inch wide and go from top to bottom with holes for the post .

Sounds like something that you can make yourself .

Yes. Unless you can find an appropriately sized divider on the web, cut thick card to shape and add a ready-made tab.

I don't remember any dividers either for that series.

You might make your own using light card or heavy paper stock. Tabs are available from stationery stores and can be added to them. I wouldn't add them to the normal album pages – the pages are too thin to hold up over time.

See:
https://www.avery.com/products/tabs
for choices.

I have a bunch of Avery 1" old school plastic tabs where you insert light card (or paper) labels, in 5 different colors, self adhesive. You can have them for nothing, 10-20 of each color plus labels. They do not exactly match the current style of 1" plastic tab being offered. These are not new but I have checked old non-stamp binders and there has been no bleeding of adhesive and they're still stuck well after 25+ years. Plus I pulled one to test and the adhesive is still good. Obviously, you might prefer other styles. Mail me if interested.

I use the heavy plastic Post-It tabs. The heavy plastic, as opposed to the lighter plastic, ones work really well for me. They come in a couple of different sizes. I use the ones that are about an inch wide. I've been using them for many years and am really satisfied with them.

Thanks for all of your input, especially hi-brasil and rugface. I have ordered the Avery and Post It plastic from Amazon and will almost certainly use one or the other.

I don't think Scott International albums are going to fit divider pages or 'tabs' very well. The distance between the outer edges of the pages and the outer edges of the binder cover is pretty small. So dvider tabs are going to stick out into the air well beyond the cover. If that's to your liking, go for it, but it means the divider tabs are going to bend against the back of the bookcase or the back of the slipcases you're using. If you cut down the tabs very narrowly, maybe . . . they'd work, but that would make it hard to label them, and they are always going to be sticking out a little.

I assume the purpose of the divider pages or tabs is to mark the beginning of each country in each volume. To avoid dividers sticking out and wearing out, you might want to try something different. Instead of divider pages with tabs sticking out, how about inserting a colored page of card stock at the beginning of each country? That way, a glance at the edge of the album will show you where each country begins. How do you know it's "Malaysia"? Well, you wouldn't know for certain, but if you put a label on each spine listing all the countries in that volume, you could easily count down to Malaysia, and assuming it's the third country in that volume, the third colored page is Malaysia. The albums would look a lot tidier that way without not tabs sticking out or wearing out.

Or key the divider pages to colors marked for each country on the spine label. If "Malaysia" is marked with a red mark next to it, the red page is Malaysia. Even someone with my eyesight can see the colors on the edges of colored divider pages if they're different enough from each other.

I should point out that my Scott International volumes (all 38 of them) have all pages for each country together in the same volume, organized alphabetically from Volume 1 to 38, so I don't have to do that annoying thing of guessing what year I need to locate in which volume. That means each volume of my albums has only three or maybe four countries in it. On the other hand, if you're using the pages they way they were issued, and putting different decades in different volumes, each volume has all the countries. Of course you could fix that by simply reorganizing your pages. Also, consider taht with dozens of countries in every volume, how in the world is it going to work if you have dozens and dozens of divider tabs sticking out? That is a little weird.

Whatever you do, good luck. Let us know what works for you.

Tab pages can be made slightly narrower to accomodate tabs sticking out. You just want the tab recessed enough to avoid sticking out a ton but still enough that you can read what's on it. You could even cut down the solid-type tabs and mark with a small letter or letters on each if you're just doing things by alphabet or ranges of the alphabet.

Corlored pages might work but check to make sure the colors don't rub off and it's rated "archival" (hard to find the latter if colored). Interleaving needs to be used just in case but will only help if they cover entire pages.