Landscape stamp album page creation completed

It took almost exactly one year, but earlier this month—at long last—I finally completed my goal of creating album pages for all the stamps in my landscapes collection. What a huge project that turned out to be!

I ended up with just over 300 distinct LibreOffice files. Some contain a single page with spaces for a stamp or stamps from a single country; here’s an example for Trinidad and Tobago.

Other files contain multiple pages for stamps from a single state or province, or even pages for stamps picturing a single location. For example, here’s my page for Denali in Alaska.

I printed my pages on 65 lb. Astrobrights cardstock. I’m not quite as pleased with how these look as I was with the half-sheet pages I had previously created for part of my collection. Full-size pages do hold more stamps, and having a page for a state or country takes up less space than half a page for each individual site, but even with that, the new pages fill three Scott Specialty binders. (A big thanks to Purgatory Post’s Scott A. for hooking me up with those!)

As for how many stamps and postal cards are housed on those pages, I really have no idea. There are hundreds, obviously, but how many hundreds I don’t know.

There was, quite frankly, a little bit of a sense of relief that accompanied completing the last of my landscape album pages. I have a tendency to start projects that take far too long to complete, and this certainly seems to qualify. But I’m happy to finally have it done. With my landscape stamps completely organized, they now seem less like a simple accumulation or hoard and more like an actual collection.

Published 2024-09-24