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My most recent foray to a USA collection is with a Lighthouse (Leuchtturm) hingeless album which "fortunately" has all coil stamps as pairs. It has been a new experience for me looking for coil stamps as pairs only. I have made a few acquisition mistakes where I managed to acquire new coil singles rather than pairs so it does have its frustrations. Mostly these were caused by overlooking notations on a want list that indicated the desired item should be a pair. Somehow in the rush to find items at a stamp show I managed to do this more than once at more than one stamp show! I am getting better now and still have only one singleton left from my erroneous purchases, a US Scott #349. It seems to be a popular item in the last few months as I have been outbid in five separate auctions for a replacement MNH pair with desired centering.
While a few items I have acquired have by chance been line pairs, in general I tend to prefer coil pairs without the line for no obvious reason (it may be that the cost premium that is sometimes seen is a factor 
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The Scott National (U.S.) Stamp album (see 1st image) has spaces for both singles and pairs but usually jammed together. You can mount either joint pairs or joint line pairs; the album does not specify type. Naturally, joint line pairs are far less numerous than joint pairs so they command a higher premium. Collectors can choose whichever their budget allows. I really con't have a preference.
I too make my own pages for most joint pairs, as I need room to add clear labels bearing the appropriate Scott number and a "certified" label for those with certs (see image 2). I am currently working to complete the 3rd Bureau Issue coils - both flat plate and rotary. I keep an Excel spreadsheet for these - see image 3 - which may help you.
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Thanks to both of you for your comments and Bob... Your pages look wonderful and I am copying the spreadsheet. Good stuff!
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You're welcome. It's not hard to scan through the Scott catalogue for US coil issues. There are 5 rare and very expensive coils in the 2nd Bureau Issue - #316, 317, 318, 321, and 322. You will never own them unless you win the lottery.
There are a lot of coils in the 4th Bureau Issue - #597-606, 686, 687, 721, and 722.
There are 12 coils in the "Prexies" series - #839-851.
There are 8 coils in the Liberty series: 1054-1059A.
You can dig out the later ones yourself.
Note: I'm not including the privately perforated coils, only those issued and sold by USPS.
Have fun.
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psgStamper, JLP's are one of my focus areas and I've got an excel sheet with most (if not all) listed. Message me with your contact info and I'll send it to you.
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I use the National album, I collect used only and collect coil singles and coil pairs, as well as single stamps and blocks of four. All mounted in the National, I don't care if they are a line pair or not.
There are a lot of them, from regular issues,flag stamps, Prominent Americans, Americana Issue, and the huge Transportation issues, it can be a challenge to find all the coil pairs used.I did not like all the holes in the National album pages so I purchased a lot of several hundred used coil pairs a few years ago to jump start the collection.There are some air mail and 80's - 90's official stamps as well.
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I found a free download of printable album pages for US Coil Stamps (along with many others) in PDF file format on the Stamp Smarter website (https://stampsmarter.org/). This is a very nice website with lots of good information.
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I am curious how other collectors handle USA line pairs and coil pairs as far as placing them in an album. Most album pages include spaces for singles but do not include line pairs. There are a number of albums available for coil pairs. I'm interested in line pairs. I've been mounting them on pages near the space for single stamps but this is messy. There doesn't seem to be an album specifically for line pairs. I'm thinking of creating pages specifically for line pairs. I would like to maintain some order but there doesn't seem to be a definitive list of all the line pairs so short of going through a Scott catalog (which would be a lot of work) to create a list, I'm not sure how to handle these line pairs. Perhaps others have devised a system which makes sense. Any ideas????
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
My most recent foray to a USA collection is with a Lighthouse (Leuchtturm) hingeless album which "fortunately" has all coil stamps as pairs. It has been a new experience for me looking for coil stamps as pairs only. I have made a few acquisition mistakes where I managed to acquire new coil singles rather than pairs so it does have its frustrations. Mostly these were caused by overlooking notations on a want list that indicated the desired item should be a pair. Somehow in the rush to find items at a stamp show I managed to do this more than once at more than one stamp show! I am getting better now and still have only one singleton left from my erroneous purchases, a US Scott #349. It seems to be a popular item in the last few months as I have been outbid in five separate auctions for a replacement MNH pair with desired centering.
While a few items I have acquired have by chance been line pairs, in general I tend to prefer coil pairs without the line for no obvious reason (it may be that the cost premium that is sometimes seen is a factor ).
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
The Scott National (U.S.) Stamp album (see 1st image) has spaces for both singles and pairs but usually jammed together. You can mount either joint pairs or joint line pairs; the album does not specify type. Naturally, joint line pairs are far less numerous than joint pairs so they command a higher premium. Collectors can choose whichever their budget allows. I really con't have a preference.
I too make my own pages for most joint pairs, as I need room to add clear labels bearing the appropriate Scott number and a "certified" label for those with certs (see image 2). I am currently working to complete the 3rd Bureau Issue coils - both flat plate and rotary. I keep an Excel spreadsheet for these - see image 3 - which may help you.
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Thanks to both of you for your comments and Bob... Your pages look wonderful and I am copying the spreadsheet. Good stuff!
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
You're welcome. It's not hard to scan through the Scott catalogue for US coil issues. There are 5 rare and very expensive coils in the 2nd Bureau Issue - #316, 317, 318, 321, and 322. You will never own them unless you win the lottery.
There are a lot of coils in the 4th Bureau Issue - #597-606, 686, 687, 721, and 722.
There are 12 coils in the "Prexies" series - #839-851.
There are 8 coils in the Liberty series: 1054-1059A.
You can dig out the later ones yourself.
Note: I'm not including the privately perforated coils, only those issued and sold by USPS.
Have fun.
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
psgStamper, JLP's are one of my focus areas and I've got an excel sheet with most (if not all) listed. Message me with your contact info and I'll send it to you.
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
I use the National album, I collect used only and collect coil singles and coil pairs, as well as single stamps and blocks of four. All mounted in the National, I don't care if they are a line pair or not.
There are a lot of them, from regular issues,flag stamps, Prominent Americans, Americana Issue, and the huge Transportation issues, it can be a challenge to find all the coil pairs used.I did not like all the holes in the National album pages so I purchased a lot of several hundred used coil pairs a few years ago to jump start the collection.There are some air mail and 80's - 90's official stamps as well.
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re: How do you handle line pairs in an album
I found a free download of printable album pages for US Coil Stamps (along with many others) in PDF file format on the Stamp Smarter website (https://stampsmarter.org/). This is a very nice website with lots of good information.
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