Korea Stamp Society

The original Korean album pages

November 14, 2020March 5, 2021 KSS Korea Philately Editor402Leave a Comment

In the last few issues of KP and on the KSS website we have shown examples of album pages made and/or used by KSS members. Here we show the original KSS album pages, the pages as produced and for years marketed in Korean Philately by our long-time member David Phillips.

Revenue stamps in album pages?

January 21, 2020March 5, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg788Leave a Comment

What started with a simple article about someone’s stamp album pages has since become quite a series. So far however all the album pages shown by members are used to store and show postal stamps. Fiscal stamps, or revenue stamps, are a completely different story.

More album pages from KSS members

January 13, 2020January 4, 2020 Chen Yi-Fu882Leave a Comment

(Our informal series on Korean album pages continues with this installment from KSS member Chen Yi-Fu.) For ROK and classic Korean stamps I use an album made by the South Korean company Woo-Moon-Kuan, which is also the publisher of the ROK stamp catalogue. For DPRK stamps I use Palo albums, the only company I know […]

More album pages from KSS members

November 11, 2019December 29, 2019 Walter Swanson791Leave a Comment

(Our informal series on Korean album pages continues with this installment from KSS member Walter Swanson.) I am a member of Athens (Georgia, USA) Philatelic Society and before my retirement from teaching I was a member of Sunrise Stamp Club in Florida. I am #843 of Korea Stamp Society, since 1979, and Scandinavian Collectors Club […]

A homemade Korean stamp album

October 9, 2019October 16, 2019 John Talmage10653 Comments

As my Korean stamp collection grew, using commercially available quadrille blank sheets (Elbe, I think) and Showgard mounts, I arranged my mint stamps chronologically, but in simple rows and columns. Cancelled stamps, as there were many missing issues in my collection, were placed in a pre-printed album (probably from D.G. Phillips) using stamp hinges.

Palo Korean Album Pages

September 4, 2019October 16, 2019 Robert Finder9423 Comments

For many years I have been using Palo Album pages for my Korean stamp collection. They are based in the USA and have very high quality pages, albums and album slip covers. The pages are five holes punched for their album binders. The pages are about 11 x 12 inches long. They have excellent standard […]

Korean Stamp Album Pages

July 21, 2019October 16, 2019 Maynard Redeker317714 Comments

During the course of collecting South Korean stamps since 1983 the problem of how to store the collection is always a difficult one. Stamp album page published by various companies are the traditional method for keeping a collection for easy access and viewing. Using Showgard or comparable stamp mounts preserves the stamps well but the […]