Topical Stamp Collecting
Exhibiting Your Collection

Overcome overcrowding by showing the essential part of a philatelic element (a cover, for example) by windowing.

• Select an area of the element, such as the stamp and cancellation on a cover or a single stamp on a souvenir sheet.
• Cut a space for that item on the album page so the element can show through if mounted on the back side of the page.
• Mount the element face-up on the album page so the element segment is visible when looking at the front of the page.
• Thus, space is available for write-up or even additional philatelic elements mounted on the front side of the page.

Another approach is merely to slit an album page and slide the element through the slit so the segment desired for display is visible and remainder is behind the visible page.

Write-ups always are subordinate to philatelic material … ALWAYS!

• Serves as a design balance, as well as providing information
• Do not place text in the same place on page after page, just as you will not position philatelic elements in the same location page after page.

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