What do you do - With out Album pages...

[Admin Bear]

I would like to hear what other members do when their album ends but the collection continues....

for example my Canada Albums end at 2011.. i am storing 2012 and 2013 stamps in a stock book and will move these over when (if) i get the proper pages for this collection.

at this moment i have not paid much attention to the 2013 US stamps but the few i have are also in a "pending" stock book for now.

so what do you do with your stamps that reach beyond your albums current ability?

[alyn]

Hi Admin Bear,

I will either place them in a stock book, place them in envelopes/glassines or back in the box/pile that they came from until I get to them to put in an album.

After that answer I see why my wife wants me to tidy up my space.

Alyn

[zepherusbane]

For my United States collection I make pages for the ones I don't have pages for. For other countries, the stamps go into a glassine for that country until I get pages.

[FairyFoot]

envelopes, stockbooks.... mainly envelopes.

[kacyds]

I am storing my 2012 and 2013 Canada stamps on manila stock pages waiting to print pages for them.

My 2013 US stamps are also on manila stock pages, first with them on paper, and when I get enough, I will take them off with pure citrus and store them on another page.

[Perfs14]

Mostly into Hagners/Varios

[Craig]

My Canada album stops at 2008, so I've stopped getting stamps from 2009 and on. But that doesn't mean I get them anyway, so I put them all in a glassine marked "Newer" and slip the glassine in a sleeve at the back of the album. The album maker stopped making supplements so I can't update the album.

Same with my France; the collections end at about 1998. My Andorra too. These go into glassines as well. I do have a British Oceania album that I bought with stamps in it (eBay) and I only fill the spaces in the remaining pages (not aggressively). Any newer issues, I used to sell at stamp shows.

That's why I like collecting Ryukyu. They've stopped issuing stamps, so it's easier to control.

[cbavier]

I really don't collect modern U.S. Stamps so I have given a lot of thought to this topic. I had thought of one time of not even buying the yearly supplements to keep my American Heirloom Collection up to date. I'm 68 years old so I don't have a lot of years left. My wife has no interest in stamps and my Son and Grand kids don't have any interest either. However since they are so cheap. I have bought all the supplements to keep my Collection up to date. I also bought a couple packages of Blank pages to insert into my album to place stamps Mystic didn't plan for. Some Se-Tenants, some Souvenir sheets and some freaks even some Cinderella's. So I placed a blank page at the back of the album to pace any modern stamps I come across that are too new for my Printed album pages. When I get the new supplement I will move them to the proper place. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Mint always go into Mounts and used are hinged.

[kacyds]

Nov 23, 2013 18:18:45 GMT -5 Craig said:

That's why I like collecting Ryukyu. They've stopped issuing stamps, so it's easier to control.

Thats why I like most of the US Back of the Book Stamps.  Also Hawaii and Canal Zone has stopped issuing stamps also.

But then I think,  what if all stamps were stopped being issued??? 

[Craig]

Dec 9, 2015 12:25:03 GMT -5 kacyds said:

Nov 23, 2013 18:18:45 GMT -5 Craig said:

That's why I like collecting Ryukyu. They've stopped issuing stamps, so it's easier to control.

Thats why I like most of the US Back of the Book Stamps.  Also Hawaii and Canal Zone has stopped issuing stamps also.

But then I think,  what if all stamps were stopped being issued??? 

Would we have our hands full collecting new old countries and categories?

[cbavier]

I think the day is not too far away when the P.O. will stop issuing stamps. Postage will either be printed by the person doing the mailing or everything will be sent by labels. In other words (Modern,current) Postage stamps from the Post Office will be obsolete. In fact with the Post Office picking up packages and mail now at your place of Business or at your home. It will be expanded to your home exclusively and the Post Office Building as we now know it will also be a thing of the past. Think of the savings from expenses for eliminating the Post Office buildings. They will rent a corner in some other store or office to conduct their business. I've stopped buying the supplements and now just put anything that  trickles in past my last album page on blank pages.

[crazyquilter]

Great question Admin Bear,

For my Minkus WW albums, I use blank minkus pages and write the date and scott numbers under the stamps.( I use erasable ink) The supplements are costly and some are out of print. For my favorite countries I use Bill's album pages.

[MikeC99]

Some of the countries that I collect have albums but I haven't bought album pages much beyond the year 2000. For my recent Canadian stamps I put them in Vario pages. I use blank quadrille pages for another country. For the other countries where the albums stop around the year 2000, I put the newer stamps in glassines by year. I am considering getting Bill Steiner pages and that will solve the problem for a few of my countries.
Mike

[darkormex]

One word: Steiner

I stopped updating my Scott albums when I realized the Steiner pages were more than adequate and when I got the CD with basically the whole world to 2010 I pretty much figured out that only death will stop me from continuing to collect....

[samb]

My US goes into an envelope until I get the pages. I don't collect recent ww so no problem there...