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07:02:03am
Other than Office Max being more conveniently located here in Citrus County, I use a similar weight white paper which is strong enough to hold stamps, an occasional cover or a souvenir sheet.
I use three ring loose leaf binders to supplement my Minkus Supreme Master Global binders which end in the mid-1970s so that I can decorate the outer liner with a photo or map relating to the area/nation contained within.
For many small countries I just mount the stamps available on a page by the year of issue and can redo them as needed as sets are completed.
I don't worry about values, catalog listings, or series names unless there are several minor variations involved. I assume that someone seeing a page full of flowers or birds or flutter-flys can figure out that they are looking at a set of flowers, birds or flutter-flys without too much added information.
With long definitive sets I do leave an open space with as little notation as necessary again assuming that if there are a set of some dictator's head arranged with the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, __, 8, 9, &10 Quatloos in order the average person of reasonable intelligence will conclude that it is the 7 Qt missing.
Where there is some technical info needed such as the different watermarks and engraving types for the 1911-1912 KE-VII Downey heads, then I'll make appropriate penciled notations.
Over all I try to keep in mind that it is my collection, my hobby and it should give me pleasure, not subject to the whims of others.
After I pass on others can gather on the street corners and amid the weeping and wailing make remarks about how I arranged the stamps and lament "If only he had taken the time to write the info that is printed in every Scott, or Gibbon's catalog beneath each and every stamp his stamps could be removed and the pages burned so much faster."
Fortunately I'll not give one wit.
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Charlie,
Just a small addendum to the treatment of the stamps, with your approval, of course.
"If only he had taken the time to write the info that is printed in every Scott, or Gibbon's catalog ON THE BACK of the stamp, IN BRIGHT BLUE INK, all of the information available, such as "year of issue, quantity printed, watermark, perfs, color of the stamp, who/what is depicted on each stamp, his stamps could be removed and the pages burned so much faster."
I'm sure we have all seen this treatment to some stamps, at one time or another in our collecting history.
Mike
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11:44:13am
I am sure you are thinking of bright blue fugitive ink, the kind that gets antsy on a humid day.
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Do it "your weigh", Charlie.
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14 Apr 2013
07:02:03am
" .... As to the type of paper, I use acid free 64 lb card stock, Ivory and Grey colors which I buy at [b]Staples[/b]. ...."
Other than Office Max being more conveniently located here in Citrus County, I use a similar weight white paper which is strong enough to hold stamps, an occasional cover or a souvenir sheet.
I use three ring loose leaf binders to supplement my Minkus Supreme Master Global binders which end in the mid-1970s so that I can decorate the outer liner with a photo or map relating to the area/nation contained within.
For many small countries I just mount the stamps available on a page by the year of issue and can redo them as needed as sets are completed.
I don't worry about values, catalog listings, or series names unless there are several minor variations involved. I assume that someone seeing a page full of flowers or birds or flutter-flys can figure out that they are looking at a set of flowers, birds or flutter-flys without too much added information.
With long definitive sets I do leave an open space with as little notation as necessary again assuming that if there are a set of some dictator's head arranged with the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, __, 8, 9, &10 Quatloos in order the average person of reasonable intelligence will conclude that it is the 7 Qt missing.
Where there is some technical info needed such as the different watermarks and engraving types for the 1911-1912 KE-VII Downey heads, then I'll make appropriate penciled notations.
Over all I try to keep in mind that it is my collection, my hobby and it should give me pleasure, not subject to the whims of others.
After I pass on others can gather on the street corners and amid the weeping and wailing make remarks about how I arranged the stamps and lament "If only he had taken the time to write the info that is printed in every Scott, or Gibbon's catalog beneath each and every stamp his stamps could be removed and the pages burned so much faster."
Fortunately I'll not give one wit.
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re: Picking up on a question about Album pages
Charlie,
Just a small addendum to the treatment of the stamps, with your approval, of course.
"If only he had taken the time to write the info that is printed in every Scott, or Gibbon's catalog ON THE BACK of the stamp, IN BRIGHT BLUE INK, all of the information available, such as "year of issue, quantity printed, watermark, perfs, color of the stamp, who/what is depicted on each stamp, his stamps could be removed and the pages burned so much faster."
I'm sure we have all seen this treatment to some stamps, at one time or another in our collecting history.
Mike
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
14 Apr 2013
11:44:13am
re: Picking up on a question about Album pages
I am sure you are thinking of bright blue fugitive ink, the kind that gets antsy on a humid day.
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The past is a foreign country, they do things different there.
14 Apr 2013
12:23:12pm
re: Picking up on a question about Album pages
Do it "your weigh", Charlie.
John Derry
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