Your Self Designed Album Pages

I would love to see some sample scans of homemade album pages or stock pages with write ups - I'm looking for ideas to narrow my collection down a bit for "quality" and "what I like best" rather than quantity and I just hate those gaping holes that develop on commercial albums. Another way of saying it is that I would rather have one great eclectic album of important stamps I treasure rather than 6 albums waiting to (never) be completed. But I would still like it to have a pro feel to it. Thanks all.

After years of trying different styles, I feel really comfortable
going the way of the great Cinderella collector Richard Witt.

His pages are basically barren, excepting large areas for information, with the stamps in question somewhat haphazard
below.

I could never emulate some of the really pro pages, and found it irritating and time consuming to try to mirror.
Since abandoning that, and having my collection all in one style
I get a lot more enjoyment from collecting.

I use just one page template for all, acid free paper with a very light inkjet buff quadrille to get the correct orientation.

Some will probably screw their nose up at it, but it was the right one for me.

Here, care of Riga Stamps, and Mr. Witt, one of his pages.

Thanks for that example.

That reminds me very much of some of the stuff Littleton stamps used to send me in the 1970's on approval. They would often have a set of stamps with a description much like the Croatian one. I can think of examples such as WW2, Lundy Stamps, "Communist" (gasp) Chinese stamps, etc. Basically it was several stamps with a theme and then some fancy quarter page size description you could put in your album. Can probably find an example later.

Yes, thanks, I'd like to see that.
About ten years ago I bought an album of Nepal covers,
they were really cheap, and passed in at auction, so I bought them
on a whim before the auction sheet was returned.

They still remain dormant because information is missing
They must have been an item from a specialised collector,
but because he didn't annotate, all his experience, time, knowledge
is wasted, and these little fellas remain locked up without a story.

Here is what I did for my precancel collection.

Nice one Stamperdude,
would look nice opposite an A4 map of Route 66
for non US citizens.

The stock page must be fairly heavy to support the mounts?

By contrast, hinged and boxed precancels with pencilled annotations,
but still too regimented for mine,
I'll probably rehinge on plain quadrille

Two pages of Machins. 1/2p varieties. For those who are truly obsessive.

Rod,
I had used card stock because I used these pages for my first frame exhibit and I wanted something durable. I wasn't planning on remounting them later.BTW do you have an A4 map of Route 66?

Uh Oh! In my ignorance, did I make a clanger?

I was thinking a mud map of Route 66 with informative snippets
of stops on the way, naturally pertaining to each precancel.

There is kinda a cute image of what I imagined on the top
of the page here.
Is that sort of thing OK?
http://www.historic66.com/

Oh, now I know what you meant in regards to the map. I had thought of doing something like that for my exhibit, but didn't have enough time or artistic ability. In fact, the one you referenced was drawn by Bob Waldmire, whom I had the pleasure of meeting on quite a few occasions before he passed away last year. He grew up in my hometown and is a well known Route 66 artist. Here is a link to my topic thread from last year that shows pics of the frames I put together.
https://goscf.com/t/5835&whichpage=...ms=route,66,

This is one of my drafts of how I am going to do my Revenue pages. I still have some issues that I want to resolve. This was just a test page I made. Hopefully I will have my final template done and can start making my pages. Its not the best but I think it will do what I need it to. Its not the best scan either since I had to keep dropping the quality to make it fit. I will get better at attaching :)

Don't know about the map, but can send a photo or two of the sign from Chicago for the official "Beginning" of Rt 66, and probably could be "bribed" into going into LA one day soo to shoot the "end" sign... LOT's of historic R66 around here.

I have tried several times to prep my own pages for the various collections. My biggest challenge is not finding the time to do it, but rather finding the time to learn how to use the software! I get a bit frustrated and find myself preferring to use my "stamp time" with the stamps and covers.

That said, when I find a good set of album pages done by others, I like to spread the news. For Machin lovers, try http://www.adminware.ca/machin/m_album.htm There's even a free-to-download version for us novices in this area. I suspect that it's bait for when the bug truly hits... ;-) I may be nearing that point already!

Peter

eopie, I did that for a while, too - simple boxes with catalogue numbers. I really liked the look of it and liked the easy reference point. THEN I got hit by a change of catalogue numbers for my favourite collecting area: Canadian Elizabethan definitives. My work was wasted as I stroked out the old number and replaced it by the new one. Sigh.

Peter

Here is a sample of my pages for used Tuvalu stamps.

Lovely page BeeSee, lots of information which
meets with approval
Love the watermark examples.
You are a class act!