![]() ![]() ![]() Just like you I have stored my collection in stockbooks, but started to make DIY pages to get a bit more decent looking pages (only for virtual presentation tough). You have got lots of good suggestions already. Write the name of the country at the top of the blank pages, and perhaps write a brief identifying description above each group of stamps. You can either put them into stamp mounts, but these are fairly expensive or use stamp hingers to mount the stamps. Mount the stamps in chronological order, following the catalogue. Be sure you get a catalogue that covers the countries you're interested in collecting. For you, probably Michel catalogues would be best - or Stanley Gibbons, Yvert and Tellier, or Ceres. If you don't have a catalogue buy a used on (again at a stamp shop or on Ebay). Cost would be "about" 30-40 Euros for the whole album.Īs for how to make the album, I'd follow a stamp catalogue and mount the stamps in that order. They will each sell you a fairly inexpensive binder (often with a slipcase) and including good quality blank or quadrille pages to put in it. Or you can use blank albums sold by Prinz Publications in Britain or from Dauwalders Stamp Shop, also in Britain. You may be able to buy some used binders at a stamp shop or on Ebay. You will need to use Schaubek binders to hold them, though. While other publishers' pages sell for between 0.50 to 1.00 Euros a page (!), Schaubek pages are generally only 0.30 Euros a page. One publisher though does sell blank and quadrille pages fairly inexpensively, I've found, and that is Schaubek. The same for Lighthouse which makes very high quality, but very expensive albums and blank pages. ![]() Davo makes nice but expensive albums and even their blank pages are fairly expensive. If you want to use blank or quadrille pages, since your'e in the Netherlands, it would be very easy to purchase some high quality blank album pages fairly easily. If you have them print the pages for you, they will print on 8.5 x 11" paper (like A4 paper) or on Minkus or Scott sized paper used often in the U.S. If you print them yourself, I suggest using heavier weight paper around 50-60 "pounds" in weight. You can even have these pages printed for you fairly inexpensively by using one of the printers listed under "Need Already Printed Pages" on this same website. You can print your own album pages on notebook sized blank paper by paying a small subscription fee to Stamp Albums com. ![]()
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