Minkus Supreme Global Albums (The Big Red Thread)

WOW!. Those are really nice looking.

Does the color spine you have shown provide a "slip-in" place to put a Spine Label, and if so, what is the dimension for that label?
It looks like you are adding some sort of gummed label above that circular feature. Is that circular feature decorative or functional?

Thanks!

These types of binder were standard items in the days of paper filing (and obviously still are to a degree). The circular holes help you yank them off the office shelf.

I am brand-new to this group. My collection of about 46,000 stamps is housed in 5 Minkus Supreme Global Binders (to 1966) plus an additional binder for a portion of the 67-70 supplements ordered from Amos Advantage.

I was disappointed at the paper change in the AA product as I was hoping to replace erroneous pages like New Caledonia and Fiji in the main set with corrected ones, but, being obsessive, I would like the same style of paper.

Does anyone know where I could get a copy of the original 1967 supplement?

You are probably going to find it on ebay before you find it anywhere else. I just checked ebay USA and found several supplements for other years, but not 1967.

John

Welcome TRH I'm on a bit of a Supreme Global journey as well... 46K to 1966 is quite an accomplishment in those! Are you planning on interleaving those countries to 1970 in the binders? I can understand why you would want the original supplements. They are are out there and I have seen them on ebay like johnsim03 says. You could get them the hard way and find a Minkus collection that has those pages. They are out there too.

I've always used Scott's International albums but read the blog regarding BigBlues and BigReds and decided to move all my duplicates into Minkus Supremes. I don't think I have a full set of Supremes until I see what might be missing from the three I've purchased on ebay. I guess some folks have combined pages into the binders from the Master Globals which may have missing spaces for some stamps? I'm not sure. When I was a kid I was too poor to even consider the Minkus albums while shopping at Meier & Franks department store's huge Minkus department. (Well, it seemed huge at the time to a 15 year old.) I asked Copilot AI about original album prices. It says the ads were not digitalized. No digitalization----no AI answer. Need an analog AI with a camera I guess.

I can't seem to find Wallis et Futuna in my Supreme Globals. Found FSAT and Fr Poly but no Wallis. I have #B9 of 1944 but may have to get some blank Minkus pages. Well, I guess there's always stock pages.

Should be between Virgin Islands and Wurttemberg in both the 2 volume and the 6 volume editions. At least several pages of them. I've had to resort to blank pages myself sometimes.

K7prz, I can upload the Wallis and Fatuna Minkus supreme pages that I have. It may help in laying out blank pages?

Thanks for offer Gbgolf---I think some are coming via ebay with a few stamps. I'm missing some countries but I have so much work to do mounting I can wait a bit. More work collecting albums than it is collecting stamps! lol I have two full sets (full meaning all the pages not the stamps) of Scott BigBlues up to 1940 and 2000 respectively and have never used Minkus before. It's not easy mounting stamps in the small squares of Minkus but it's kind of fun. I picked up some feeder stock books last weekend keeping me busy. Mostly using Dennison hinges rather than mounts which saves a lot of time. I'm dumping some of the Scott pages1973 to year 2000 on ebay for the stamps from countries I'll never obtain. Modern independent Africa and certain Asia in that year range are just too expensive. I guess us worldwide collectors have to have some limits unless $ are unlimited.

You folks talk about feeder albums. I assume that's where much of your stamps come from that are put into a worldwide collection/album. I assume if you have not already obtained same, you buy at auctions or off ebay? I don't want to run around the city buying estates although there is a dealer here that sells box lots. What auction houses offer collections of cheap stamps to help fill the gaps in a WW collection?

K7prz -----I have active accounts with three firms . All of them give me excellent service .

First is Rasdale in Chicago {been with them over 50 years and bought hundreds of lots } . The next is Kelleher {have been with them 35 years} . The third is Dutch Country {been with them 15 years }.

Have accounts with two others , not as good as the above

Lesson I learned is the firms like to get paid quick . Don't play around with them. They got enough problems with other buyers . Over the past and it will happen again I win a lot and it was a dog but out of all I bought I came out ahead of the game .Over paid a few times too but I eat it and move on .

Replying to Landoquakes. I use glassine interleaves wherever perforations are hooking on each other. I've gone through a couple packages of those.

The original 2 Vol Supreme Global to 1954 with spaces for 76K stamps cost $27.50
The 2 Volume Supreme Global to 1959 Supplement (I think) with spaces for 93K stamps $39.50
The 2 volume Supreme Global to 1966 with spaces for 125K stamps $49.50
Even in the 70s and early 80s single volume parts were about $32
Seems so cheap now.

Did everyone miss when Statesman Stamper said: "I bought the two sections of Part 1 of the Supreme last year via NOLA Stamp Shop. They are punched for both three ring and two post binders. I would assume the other parts are also sold new this way." If they are now three-hole punching the Minkus Global pages, that should save a lot of trouble.

For missing pages, it's very easy to print Bill Steiner's nearly-free page layouts onto blank pages that match whatever album you're using. It' much easier than endlessly searching for missing pages on ebay which is what convinced me to do this. Here's how:

1/ After downloading the Steiner pages files, put the appropriate file into PDF Candy (or any similar website) and select the option to change it from pdf format to Word. (I save that file with a slightly different name to differentiate from the originally-named Steiner file so I don't get confused later). Takes only a minute or two.

2/ On the newly-formatted Word pages, highlight each page border with a double-click and delete them all one by one by hitting "backspace" or whatever key does that. You can also highlight the country name on each page and change it to a font that closely matches the font on your other pages. (Engravers MT size 12 or 14 closely matches Scott International album country names, but I don't know what font matches the Minkus headings).

3/ Print out those now borderless pages on your computer, and take them as your 'originals' to Fedex to be copied on your blank but bordered paper. Load those blanks in the side hopper for larger paper, and then print them onto the bordered blank pages one page at a time and you have pages with a matching border that look like they belong in that album. Bill Steiner's added stamp identifying info is a plus.