My local club is ID'g and selling off the remnants of a local collector's stamps; among them was a large group of mid-Communist Hungary. I suspect I have most of these, but since they were well organized, sort of, I thought I'd pull Hungary stuff and see what I needed.
OY! What a mess. Being an undisciplined accumulator, I am paying a price now. What to do.
There are some really nice parts, including a lot from #1 through about 1931 (year) with a good selection of occupation issues. They are on one-sided Scott Specialty pages, the longish kind with two flat posts holes.
The bulk of it is on other types of pages, usually two sided.
I would like some help in how to put this together?
Do I start over, say with a new set of Steiner pages? Steiner after the 1931 specialty and occupation pages end? Try to find an abandoned Hungarian Specialty album(s) and binder(s)?
Help, I don't really know where to start (other than a feeling I'd like to keep the Specialty pages intact, at least for now, as they are the most lovingly ammassed of the lots).
David
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If you have got a matching binder or can find one, and the album pages for the older issues are in reasonably good shape, I'd say, keep the one-sided ones.I f you can find some matching blank pages for varieties etc., only the better. Two-sided album pages can be awkward to use if stamps on facing pages get entangled. Perhaps you can make copies of every other page so that you have all stamps on one-sided pages in the end. It's better that way, because there's less potential damage.
For the rest, I'd be tempted to use the Steiner pages, or make my own (e.g. using a nice frame, a heading, and a lightly squared background). Keep in mind that not everything that might be of interest is shown on pre-designed album pages, such as singles or combinations from souvenir sheets or se-tenants, errors, freaks, and oddities, stamps on piece, special cancellations etc. Therefore, have a stack of blank album pages at hand.
