Fly Pages For Stamp Albums

Aside from the obvious benefit of first-page protection, I'd like to dress up my Vintage Reproduction albums with fly pages (aka fly leaves). These pages are currently housed in Scott Specialty Albums.

My old US Scott National album came with them (which is what sparked the idea in my head), and I've searched the Scott / Amos website to no avail.

Does anyone know of a source for these or a suitable product, even if I need to trim to size and hole-punch myself? I've been using blank Specialty pages just for the protection they offer, but the looks are kinda meh...

Eureka!

And for anyone else considering these:

https://www.ihobb.com/SRCH.html?Sea...y=disp_order

I'm not sure why you can't find them on the Amos Advantage (Scott website), but Scott/Amos calls them "protector sheets" which seems a pretty silly name to me since there is already a name for them. That name is "flyleaf" or "flyleaves," so why not use it?

https://www.amosadvantage.com/Searc...heets&page=2

I've made my own from heavy stock paper of a large size by first trimming the sheets to Scott size, then hole punching them, and that can work well enough and is cheaper. But Scott's end pages or flyleaves -- oops, sorry, "protector sheets" -- are better.

Scott also calls the strips of cardboard that act as page spacers along the inside of album pages to help even out the thickness of an album "filler strips," a name I doubt a single human being would ever think of. Since they space out pages, why not call them "page spacers"?

I think when my brain read 'protector sheets,' it immediately categorized the product as single page protectors (sleeves for a single sheet), and not as flyleaves, and rejected them.
I stumbled upon them quite by accident last night on IHobb, but now that I know the "proper" term, my order is in and the world makes sense again (...sort of), albeit in a pricey way (since I needed twenty albums worth).

I have never heard them call fly leaves. The search at amosadvantage is challenging even if you know the right words.

The ACC102 (Specialty) or ACC104 (International) flysheets cost $6.79 for 2 sheets which is totally crazy. I think that would be a fair price for maybe 10 of them, but not sure how they get away with charging that much for just 2.

I usually use end up using the cardboard stiffener which comes with glassine interleaves which is both stronger/thicker than the fly sheets as well as cheaper (free if you're buying interleaves). One other option iHobb (but not Amos) sells a bundle for Scott binders and slipcases which includes flysheets. The only actual flysheets I have are ones including with those bundles.

Completely nutz, but fortunately I'm a little off myself and besides, my OCD dictates my desire for uniformity. Big picture, when you think in terms of the cost of the Vintage Reproduction pages, twenty binders, twenty slip cases, plus a few packs of blank Specialty pages, the cost for the flypages, given their purpose, is a tad easier to justify.

I assume this is just for the front of the album, it would be expensive for the entire album. Personally I do not think they do anything of value.

By definition, a fly-leaf sits at the front and back of a book/album. Nothing much adds to the value of an album - that lies in the stamps within it.

A stack of a couple hundred loose album pages jammed into a binder without any front/back protection just feels cheap. The flyleaf and end sheets add protection to the stamps, and they add class. They add protection because when you grab a handful of pages near the front or back to close the album, the comparatively thin album pages are more likely to tear or at least get wrinkled without the heavier outer protective pages. The flyleaf can serve as a title page for the album in a multi-volume collection. While it doesn't necessarily add monetary value, a good-looking title page in the front of every album is a nice touch and shows attention to detail and a caring collector.

For my albums, I print out a country title page on cover stock and then insert in a page size protective sleeve. Since all but a couple albums start with a country that serves as the protection. For the last page I just put a blank sheet in a protective sleeve.



Page size protector compared to more common protector.

Read "Zebra Man's" comment again. THAT is what a "fly leaf" (it's correct name) does for an album which may help explain why Scott/Amos calls them, awkwardly but not entirely incorrectly, "protector sheets". I think I'll start calling the fenders on my car "protector panels" and an umbrella a "rain protector". Someone there suffers from semi-literacy and/or literalism since for centuries the initial and final pages of books have been called "fly leaves".

They make any album look more elegant, more serious, and they keep the album pages -- which are thinner -- from tearing at the holes quite as easily.

They can be made from your own medium-weight paper if you cut them to the size of your album pages (an ordinary paper cutter works just fine) and hole-punch them. I've done that dozens of times. Paper in weights of 50# or 60# (called "card stock") in a size large enough to cut down to album size will work just fine.

Have fun!

So, I ended up ordering the Fly Sheets for 20 albums worth of my Vintage Reproduction pages from IHobb a few weeks ago, two per album. The total price gave me a mild case of the heebie-jeebies since after all, these are just thick pieces of paper...

At any rate, I finally found time to work on my collections today, so I started adding the fly sheets to my albums. As I pulled each one off of the shelves to add the stamps that have been piling up on my desk for way too long, the fly sheets were added at the same time. The result, if I do say so myself, was splendid! I was able to get rid of the blank pages that I had been using to protect stamps mounted on the first pages, and the esthetic result (in addition to the functional benefit), imo, made the expense well worth it. The black colour of the fly sheets nicely matches the inner lining the albums originally came with, and the dimensions are a perfect match to the page sizes. No buyer's remorse here!