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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

 

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lemaven
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02 Apr 2016
05:27:18pm
This covers anything where stamps were on pages including stockbooks, binders with stock pages, published albums, and binders with homemade pages. These pages from Germany will give you an example of the many variations I found - some just attached to pages (many older mint hinged unfortunately but only one "baby album" probably from when she was quite young where the stamps were glued or taped!!! to the page); and some catalogued and priced (must be fairly long ago though with Scott minimum CVs of 8c, 10c, etc. Would that have been the 1970s? 1980s?

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Most of the actual WW albums were in crappy shape and there were a number of them so I detached the pages and organized them by country. For countries with a large number of pages (or ones I might be interested in collecting) I'm organizing them into large envelopes and put the rest in large magazine holders (here's M-T).

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A couple full stockbooks of various WW MNH with some organizing and annotating of Scott #'s and CVs; a number more loaded with specific countries, soccer, (by country and by tournament) and Olympics (by country, by sport, and by Games); plus 5 safety deposit box sized stockbooks with stamp descriptions.

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There were 3 U.S. albums (and a binder with a couple dozen stock pages of MNH stamps) I dealt with similarly and kept the nice Harris one that looked brand new (pages only up to 1990 and probably only 100 stamps in it - all MNH in clear/black mounts).

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Then there are the 3 Canadian albums which I have kept and many pages of Canada stripped from the various WW albums). The first page is from Harris - all MNH in mounts fairly complete from the 1960s (except most high values). The next couple are from "Minkus #2" - mixed used/unused Canada Provinces and numerous Souvenir books (which I'm stripping - I don't see the value in the album above the stamps alone.

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The greatest find though was "Minkus #1". All MNH in mounts with about 10% of Victoria-era, 25% of post-Victoria to mid-1920s, then virtually complete afterwards including high values and BOB. (The 2 blue tags you can see are the two I'm missing: the famous Bluenose and a weirdly elusive 1960s 2c postage due variation. Also, there were binders with many dozen stock pages of MNH including tons of plate blocks from all four corners.

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Comments welcome. Anything you find interesting or something you'd like to see more closely if I tear it apart?




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damichab
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02 Apr 2016
09:05:37pm
re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

I am interested in what you got in the way of older Australian stamps. The ones you have shown on this thread are poorly sorted indicating that the original owner might not know one set from another and you might have a gem somewhere. (Unless the two pages above it!)

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michael78651

02 Apr 2016
11:16:37pm
re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

On the picture where you have the three pages side-by-shed below the Harris Liberty Album, you have what looks like a cut corner RPO cancel on the stamp at the top left corner of the third page.

I wouldn't mind seeing a close up picture of that, if you would be so kind.

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ikeyPikey
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02 Apr 2016
11:30:32pm
re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

When I file into large envelopes, I like to:

1) Print an Avery label. I've got a mess of spreadsheets with different layouts that I've developed for one reason or another, but the bottom line is that I can take a partial sheet of labels, pick one, put the text into the corresponding spot in the spreadsheet, and print a single label for a single envelope.

Yes, of course, I can print more than one label at a time Winking

2) I label the tab of any envelope, not the 'front'. This means that I can finger-walk my way thru a file, find the envelope I want, lift only the tab, and insert/delete from that envelope ... rather than removing the entire envelope, spinning it 'round in mid air, and replacing it when I'm done.

Lazy twit, eh?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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malcolm197

04 Apr 2016
11:35:15am
re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

You might take another look at the strips in the stockbook of Australia. I had a stockbook which looked a lot like that ( but may be a different manufacturer ) and the strips had a tendency to slide out of the retaining pages and deposit the stamps all over the floor !!

Also some early stock books were made using extremely dodgy plastics with nasty softeners added to keep them from getting brittle.

If you have any old "Globe" brand stockbooks I advise you to remove the stamps sooner rather than later.

Malcolm

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philatelia
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04 Apr 2016
12:50:52pm
re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

You should be thrilled that nothing seems to be mounted in those gawd-awful crystal mounts!


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lemaven

02 Apr 2016
05:27:18pm

This covers anything where stamps were on pages including stockbooks, binders with stock pages, published albums, and binders with homemade pages. These pages from Germany will give you an example of the many variations I found - some just attached to pages (many older mint hinged unfortunately but only one "baby album" probably from when she was quite young where the stamps were glued or taped!!! to the page); and some catalogued and priced (must be fairly long ago though with Scott minimum CVs of 8c, 10c, etc. Would that have been the 1970s? 1980s?

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Most of the actual WW albums were in crappy shape and there were a number of them so I detached the pages and organized them by country. For countries with a large number of pages (or ones I might be interested in collecting) I'm organizing them into large envelopes and put the rest in large magazine holders (here's M-T).

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A couple full stockbooks of various WW MNH with some organizing and annotating of Scott #'s and CVs; a number more loaded with specific countries, soccer, (by country and by tournament) and Olympics (by country, by sport, and by Games); plus 5 safety deposit box sized stockbooks with stamp descriptions.

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There were 3 U.S. albums (and a binder with a couple dozen stock pages of MNH stamps) I dealt with similarly and kept the nice Harris one that looked brand new (pages only up to 1990 and probably only 100 stamps in it - all MNH in clear/black mounts).

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Then there are the 3 Canadian albums which I have kept and many pages of Canada stripped from the various WW albums). The first page is from Harris - all MNH in mounts fairly complete from the 1960s (except most high values). The next couple are from "Minkus #2" - mixed used/unused Canada Provinces and numerous Souvenir books (which I'm stripping - I don't see the value in the album above the stamps alone.

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The greatest find though was "Minkus #1". All MNH in mounts with about 10% of Victoria-era, 25% of post-Victoria to mid-1920s, then virtually complete afterwards including high values and BOB. (The 2 blue tags you can see are the two I'm missing: the famous Bluenose and a weirdly elusive 1960s 2c postage due variation. Also, there were binders with many dozen stock pages of MNH including tons of plate blocks from all four corners.

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Comments welcome. Anything you find interesting or something you'd like to see more closely if I tear it apart?




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damichab

02 Apr 2016
09:05:37pm

re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

I am interested in what you got in the way of older Australian stamps. The ones you have shown on this thread are poorly sorted indicating that the original owner might not know one set from another and you might have a gem somewhere. (Unless the two pages above it!)

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michael78651

02 Apr 2016
11:16:37pm

re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

On the picture where you have the three pages side-by-shed below the Harris Liberty Album, you have what looks like a cut corner RPO cancel on the stamp at the top left corner of the third page.

I wouldn't mind seeing a close up picture of that, if you would be so kind.

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ikeyPikey

02 Apr 2016
11:30:32pm

re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

When I file into large envelopes, I like to:

1) Print an Avery label. I've got a mess of spreadsheets with different layouts that I've developed for one reason or another, but the bottom line is that I can take a partial sheet of labels, pick one, put the text into the corresponding spot in the spreadsheet, and print a single label for a single envelope.

Yes, of course, I can print more than one label at a time Winking

2) I label the tab of any envelope, not the 'front'. This means that I can finger-walk my way thru a file, find the envelope I want, lift only the tab, and insert/delete from that envelope ... rather than removing the entire envelope, spinning it 'round in mid air, and replacing it when I'm done.

Lazy twit, eh?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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malcolm197

04 Apr 2016
11:35:15am

re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

You might take another look at the strips in the stockbook of Australia. I had a stockbook which looked a lot like that ( but may be a different manufacturer ) and the strips had a tendency to slide out of the retaining pages and deposit the stamps all over the floor !!

Also some early stock books were made using extremely dodgy plastics with nasty softeners added to keep them from getting brittle.

If you have any old "Globe" brand stockbooks I advise you to remove the stamps sooner rather than later.

Malcolm

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philatelia

04 Apr 2016
12:50:52pm

re: Stage 2 of The Hoard ("The Components") - Part B: The Albums

You should be thrilled that nothing seems to be mounted in those gawd-awful crystal mounts!


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