Alyson Kuhn has a lovely post over on the Felt & Wire blog of how she's re-organized her stamp collection to start celebrate the start of 2013. She has a good mix of vintage and current stamps and various ways of sorting them, but I found her simple idea of adding glassines to a notebook to hold stamp singles most beguiling.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I love organizing my stamps. My current system is similar to Alyson's. I, too, use philatelic supply files to hold my sheets of stamps, and employ glassines. I currently have all of my vintage stamps that aren't in sheets organized by value, but I like the idea of doing them by color as well.
How do you keep your stamps in order?
P.S. Thanks to Ana of the Well-Appointed Desk for the link tip!
I'm a little in love with the Field Notes book of tiny stamp-filled envelopes.
Posted by: kimberly | January 04, 2013 at 02:15 PM
I also love the Field Notes idea. For now I just keep the glassine envelopes in a box, grouped by price, but sometimes by category, such as Tranportation, Flowers, Love and Space themes.
Once a week (or sometimes more) I transfer some to my portable "postage emergency kit".
Posted by: Cynthia | January 04, 2013 at 03:09 PM
I use a plastic bead case--the ones with the multiple squares. I put them stamps in order of value. Works great!
Posted by: Tamra Orr | January 04, 2013 at 07:40 PM
I love everyone's organizing ideas but all my vintage and regular stamps are in a big jumble.....
Posted by: Pamela. | January 06, 2013 at 01:18 PM
Pamela, if you have some kids or little people around, you could "assign" them the job of organizing your stamps. It could be a mini-math lesson or a game for them.
Posted by: Tamra Orr | January 08, 2013 at 11:48 AM
I'm right up there with Pamela. I have a glassine envelope I got when I bought a sheet of stamps and I just put my stamps in it as I buy them....I'm more concerned with using them than I am with keeping them in any order;)
Posted by: Jen | January 10, 2013 at 12:35 PM
I keep my current stamps by amount, and for ones that I have lots of- forever stamps-I also organize by topic like ships, nature, states, etc. in a 3 ring binder in plastic sleeves. I don't really have my vintage ones organized because until recently I only had like two kinds. (I posted photos on my blog: http://scribblingsarah.blogspot.com/2013/01/organizing-postal-stamps.html)
Posted by: Scribbling Sarah | January 20, 2013 at 07:52 PM