Worldwide Collection Using A Combination Of Scott International And Steiner Pages

I primarily use Steiner pages and print pages only as needed.

If I get a collection Scott/Minkus pages I may just 3 hole punch and put in a Vario G binder along with the other countries. I create title pages to help segregate. Scott pages need to be trimmed on each side to fit. At some point I will migrate to Steiners. If I cannot modify a Steiner page if I need to make changes (break a block or add missing variety), I will use AlbumEasy to create a page.

angore -

I wish I'd thought of cutting International pages down to notebook size. It would have been a huge pain in the neck, but maybe better than shopping around for custom-sized paper to fit the Scott albums -- not to mention not having to fight with the terrible Scott binders technology.

The old Minkus and Scott 2 post types were awful. The Scott pages have a lot of extra space on left side because of the the binders so trimming does not really get close to the frame to be that obvious.

I haven't re-read this entire thread, and I may have said this before, but here goes.

Are you interested in finding blank Scott International pages -- with no printing at all on them, not even a border? Your remark "maybe better than shopping around for custom-sized paper to fit the Scott albums" suggested you were. If so, contact this website which sells Scott International sized blank paper with no border and holes punched for that album for 25c a page. It also sells the same pages printed for you with Steiner page layouts for slightly more.

https://www.albumpages.net/

That way your album is not a mixture of different-sized pages but would look uniform AND be comprehensive, not the usual partially complete Scott International pages.

I pretty such I mentioned this previously, but Subway Stamp Shop also sells reprints of Scott International brown album pages which are complete for all stamps 1840-1940 which would cover a great deal of any worldwide collection and be the correct page size and so on. They call them their Vintage Reproduction pages and they're exact copies of the original Scott brown album International album pages which fit those binders.

https://subwaystamp.com/collections/vintage-pages

Thanks, Drew. I'm well past all of those options by this point, with 71 volumes now printed out. At age 72, I'm not really in a position to start over with an entirely new approach.

I did look at the Subway reprints of the Scott Brown Internationals. Even though the Brown series is a big improvement over "Big Blue" as far as completeness, they are still vastly less complete than the Steiner pages and the Brown series look very jammed together to me. And they are really expensive - currently 30 cents a page for International sized pages and for printed pages, you have to ask for a quote.





I also contacted the person who is linked to on the Steiner site (it's a different person now, someone in Florida; when I was dealing with them, it was a man in West Virginia). The price was extremely high and the person was not able to accommodate two-sided printing, which is essential for me due to shelf space considerations.

The price I paid for my current supply of International-sized and punched paper isn't too bad (12.37 cents per page) and I can print two-sided (although the ink is expensive). Having control of my own printing also means that I can print one or two pages as needed, which is tremendously helpful. I've still got more than 2500 pages left, so I suspect I won't need any more paper in my lifetime.

Thanks again for your suggestions, which are ones everyone who is thinking about how to house a worldwide collection should be aware of.

Doug



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Drew -

Just to be clear, what I'm doing now is buying the annual Scott International supplements and filling in the many omissions as needed with self-printed Steiner pages.

I'm also continually in the process of correcting omissions and errors in earlier pages.

This is an unusual approach obviously and not at all recommended for anyone primarily interested in the resale value of their collection.

I wanted a selection of pages that would come reasonably close to being comprehensive, even though my stamp collection is very far from being comprehensive. This means that I have long stretches of printed pages with few or even no stamps on them.

I like that personally, since near-comprehensiveness is my goal. But for resale purposes it's terrible in part because of the shipping weight. I'll leave clear instructions for my children that the auction house must disclose that there are lots of blank pages. Otherwise, I fear that many auction houses would imply that the 71 volumes are mostly full, which is not at all the case.

Snopes, you are very dedicated to the hobby. You could sell your duplicates on ebay, rummage sale, or see if your city has a local selling post online.