Extraordinary Way To Build An Album

Don't know if anyone's seen this. He breaks every rule in the book, as you will see when he starts leafing through at around two and a half minutes.

Never seen anything like it, but I must say I admire the end result. A cross between a stamp album and a scrap book, and quite impressive as an object. As they say, there's no right or wrong way to collect stamps...

channel=Kyle%27sStamps

What a mess!

Dutch = German. Portuguese stamps made of real cork (spelled quark). Oh dear!
Let's hope for this guy catalogue prices do not change.

But very impressive and fun.
Indeed proving there is no wrong way to collect stamps. Just enjoy the hobby.

This nearly-three-hour video is fascinating, and so is the album.

Both are Joycean (if you are a reader, think Finnegans Wake and Ulysses).

The write-up for the Portuguese stamp ("Made of real quark") is priceless.

What fun he is having.

Thanks for posting the link, Ringo.

Kyle has a ton of stamp collecting vids on YouTube. The issue with most of them is he kind of free-associates and goes through materials stamp by stamp for an hour or more, sometimes A LOT more than an hour. He has learned a lot but still makes lots of mistakes and doesn't make time to correct most of them. And most of the stamps he shows are common and many are damaged.

Still, he clearly does have a lot of fun while stamping and makes a decent contribution to the philatelic library on YouTube, but I do wish he would limit his vids to about 15 or so minutes. For more advanced collectors, there are several good channels on YouTube such as Ted Talks Stamps, Exploring Stamps (which unfortunately has ended at 50 total episodes), Silk on the Web, and Ken's Stamp Collection.

I occasionally watch his videos, and I very much appreciate his enthusiasm for the hobby.

You can tell he gets a lot of joy from the hobby and I think that's a great thing. I enjoy the videos.

Good to see he enjoys making the album and showing it off . Not my kind of collecting but his enjoyment comes across to everyone .

Very much a case of each to their own, he seems to be happy doing it his way and thats all that matters.

A friend sent me a video of him buying some 20 something boxes from apelbaum for some ludicrous price and I can say that this man represents the best in all of us and I hope he continues to stay in the hobby. Such joie de vivre. If I bought a collection and this book was in it I would keep it for myself no doubt. Everyone says stamps should have value to make a nice collection but honestly the collections I appreciate most are not necessarily the ones that have the highest catalog values but rather the ones which obviously were painstakingly put together with love and interest. Seeing this guy's album makes me want to put together a similar gigundo album and just have fun

This new video on Youtube may add value to this discussion. Seems like a neat idea except I don't collect singles. Perhaps a few new angles on mounting one's stamps, if nothing else.

channel=SilkontheWeb

I wasn't familiar with Silk before watching the video above. I'm always interested to see unique ways of organizing and sorting stamps and his method is definitely interesting. He is using sports card supplies and I agree with shermae it seems more geared to singles. I also collect sports cards, but I collect complete sets instead of singles, and mostly keep them in albums, just like I do for stamps. So I hardly use those supplies even for sports cards. I think for stamps there is expectation that the album contains every stamp which fits in the album, where for sports cards is pretty common for people to pull out the most valuable cards and display them separately where the album is more for bulk storage. I might be able to use the method for more valuable stamps which don't fit in any particular album, although I don't have too many in that category.

Still, a very interesting video and I went through his channel and he has lots of other cool videos. Subscribed!!

I hope he remembers to update his cards on his death bed. Thirty or forty-year old catalogue values, especially for rare and classic stamps, have little value.

Thanks SHERMAE .

Interesting video ,it shows his enjoyment with his stamps . He does explains his likes and why he collects the way he does .

Yes, I watch his videos. He is giddy collector. Just great energy for the hobby.