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September 28, 2020 12:14
When buying albums, I notice that sometimes whole pages are filled with one and the same stamp, whether or not together. Why is that? Vr.gr. Hans
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September 29, 2020 10:31

Your question is not entirely clear, but with "albums" you can consider roughly three things. There are albums with preprinted images (preprint albums) with a picture on each page in a frame of the stamp that belongs there (according to the manufacturer, who usually follows a catalog).

Some collectors use albums in which they keep their stamps in their own way, in their own order. Albums with blank pages are used for this (at most light-colored, unobtrusive squares as an aid). It can therefore contain entire rows of apparently the same stamps. These then turn out to differ from each other in, for example, perforations, watermarks, etc., which an inexperienced collector will not notice.

The third possibility are the so-called stock books, ie stock books. There, seals can be stored separately. They almost always contain stocks, so often dozens of copies of the same stamp, although a single collector also sets up his / her collection in such a book.

You will probably find the answer with these 3 examples.

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