One of the most familiar components of the stamp hobby is the stamp album, a book filled with pages that have designated spaces to mount and display stamps. Stamp albums with printed pages appeared in the United States as early as 1863, just 16 years after the first U.S. stamps were issued.

For many years, stamp albums were manufactured much like ordinary books, with the pages bound into a spine between two hard covers.

Early bound albums had several drawbacks. As years went by and new stamps were issued, there was no way to update the album with new pages. The slim volume in the illustration boasts that it "contains spaces for postage stamps from every stamp issuing country in the world," but many countries in the album are represented by just a handful of spaces on a page, even though they may have issued hundreds of stamps before the album was produced.

Most stamp albums today are designed to hold the stamps of just one country or geographic region. Larger countries that have issued many stamps, such as the United States, may even require more than one album to hold all the pages needed to accommodate each stamp.

The spaces on album pages often include images of the stamps that are supposed to fit in the space. Some album pages provide catalog numbers along with the illustration to further help the collector identify the proper stamp.

 

Because stamps are damaged by glue, tape and other commercial adhesives, collectors use only stamp hinges and stamp mounts that are specially designed for postage stamp display. One side of the hinge is lightly moistened and attached to the back of the stamp. The other side is then moistened so the stamp can be positioned on the album page. For a stamp collector, there’re lots of things to do!

 

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