Stamp album

A stamp album is a stockbook for storing and collecting stamps.

Nowadays, there are only stamp albums, which dispense with the use of a fold, as this can destroy the back of the stamp, especially in mint stamps. In the first stamp albums, which are 1862 published, stamps were pasted into even more directly. The stamp albums were, however, constantly improved. 1881 appeared the first folds to attach the stamps to the stamp album. Shortly thereafter, the first stamp album was released with Schraubenheftung. The first stamp albums, which renounced the use of a fold, came about shortly after the Second World War to the market.

The classic Einsteckbuch consists of several pages, with multiple transparent films are arranged in the form of pockets in rows on each side of cardboard. There are also similarly constructed stamp albums, but in which the individual pages can be exchanged like a wallet. The pages of stamp albums are usually white or black.

There are also stamps illustrated albums in the form of binders, in which the images of the unclassifiable Stamps are pre-printed. The stamps are fastened there by means of transparent clamping pockets or put into transparent Einsteckseiten that are above the printed pages.

With desktop publishing or word processing programs Collectors can relatively easily make your own music of such stamp albums itself, while much more flexible and cheaper in any case, as sources to the commercially pre-printed sheets of well-known publishers. On the internet are already finding corresponding electronic templates that can be easily adapted through the PC to your needs and then printed.