Help With Finding A Hingeless Album

I would like to start a Worldwide album from 1840-1930ish

Does anyone know if there is a Hingeless Worldwide album. Im not a fan of just mounting the tabs on the stamps. I have looked at the Scott International, if it was hingeless I would purchase it.

Anyone have any recommendations on what book to possibly use. I would also be interested in an older album if it was in nice shape.

I have looked at Palo and Davo, but was hoping to find an all in one album that might be hingeless

You only have one choice. Palo hingeless. But it will cost you. The other album makers don't cover the rest of the world. Davo also does not cover the rest of the world. There is no WW hingeless album available as a set. You can have Palo price it out for you.

If you want detail and don't mind the (high) cost, you can cover the British Empire with Gibbons's range of hingeless albums covering the Queen Victoria-George V period. These will be superior to Palo's Steiner-derived pages. You could look for a lightly used copy of Gibbons's three-volume Ideal album, which covered the rest of the world to 1936, but you'd have to deconstruct it, as it's fast-bound.

https://www.dauwalders.co.uk/classic-albums-4479-c

There are no "worldwide" albums that are hingeless albums, at least that I've ever seen. Hingeless albums abound for individual countries, but if you want to create a collection of worldwide stamps you'll need to use one of a number of world stamp albums all of which require you to either use stamp hinges or stamp mounts to mount your stamps. These range from albums which have spaces for mostly common, popular stamps mainly of the modern era like the Harris albums to more sophisticated and more complete albums which cover much of the history of stamps right from their beginning in 1840 like the Scott International album and the Minkus Global album.

The Scott International albums and the Minkus Global albums are sold in multiple volumes depending on what eras you want to collect. The Minkus has spaces for more stamps than the Scott, but they are on far more crowded pages while the pages in Scott albums are laid out a little more carefully and I'd say are a little more elegant-looking. The Harris albums also cover the world but on even more crowded pages and they are a good deal less complete than the first two. To me, they seem more like classic "beginner" stamp albums which just grew and grew, but they will work just fine.

All of these albums can make for very nice world collections, but the Scott International has a much longer history of being in print, going back to the later 19th century and is published by the same company that publishes the class U.S. stamp catalogue, the Scott Postage Stamp Catalogue. If you collect the world, you may want to buy (on ebay) a used set of these catalogues for the entire world. Older will be much cheaper, of course but color images only began in (I think) 2006 or 2007 which is worth knowing. Before that images were in black and white which should work just fine - and be much cheaper.

Palo sells albums only by countries, not the entire world in one album. Other album publishers do the same -- Lighthouse and Lindner (published in Germany), Davo (Netherlands), Stanley Gibbons (UK), Marini (Italy) and others publish albums for individual countries only. With the exception of SG which does publish British Empire/Commonwealth albums which cover all those countries but omits the rest of the world.

Looking for older albums on websites like ebay is possible, but of course you are looking at older, out of print albums not necessarily in good shape, and so on. If you're careful, some may turn out to be good albums, including a few older brands I haven't mentioned because they are not longer published like some world albums by Grossman and others.

So there's your choices! Have fun.

Saying Palo hingeless will cost you is an understatement. Palo is 1 country at a time. France to 1960 is $440, plus binders (you have to buy theirs).

This makes the cost of a new Big Blue (Scott Int'l) look reasonable.

I use Hawid open top clear strips cut to each stamp for my Big Blue, it's definitely extra time but I like the result,and I already spend too much on this hobby to put thousands into the albums.

Palo's pricing is off the wall for poorly designed leaves - you could pick up Yvert hingeless albums for France with binders for less than that.

I purchased the Vintage Reproduction pages years ago from Subway, which cover 1840-1940 with very complete coverage (unlike Scott International). They were not cheap at the time. I used a mixture of hinges and clear Hawid open top clear strips cut to each stamp.

But to be honest, I'm still mostly just using my Scott International albums.

If you want a less expensive route (so you can spend your money on stamps), you might what to just go with Steiner pages and used mounts (essentially a "do-it-yourself" worldwide album ).