While browsing around on Leuchtturm’s website a while back, I came across these interesting items: stamp albums! At first, I didn’t know what they were, as the heading calls them “Travel Stockbooks.” I love the idea of a special notebook to safely hold stamps, in a format matching their other notebooks.
The details:
- 2 sizes, 24 pages: Large 9×12″ (A4) with 9 glassine strips per page or Small 6×9″ (A5) with 6 glassine strips per page
- Premium black leatherette cover with rounded corners
- Heavy chamois-colored card stock (550 g/m²)
- Rigid binding
- Double glassine interleaves for optimum protection
- Inside cover pocket for individual mint sheets, documents, etc.
- Elegant bookmark ribbon
- Elastic closure holds collectibles in place and limits exposure to dust
- Incl. stickers for labeling the front and spine
Amazon has a variety of other Leuchtturm stamp albums if you search under “stockbook”. I was surprised to see quite a few other products for collectors of coins, paper money, bottlecaps and more, sold either under the Leuchtturm name or under the English brand name Lighthouse:
I’m assuming this has always been a big segment of Leuchtturm’s business in Germany and just hasn’t been part of their notebook-focused US marketing.
The Lighthouse stock books are wonderful – I have several that I use for the stamps I really love and want to keep in great condition, like older, engraved, or just beautiful ones (ever seen the $8 Canadian grizzly bear?) I had no idea that Lighthouse and Leuchtturm were related, but the stamp stock books are relatively easy to find in the US, from most stamp dealers or Amazon; they’re really well made, and very good-looking, and come in lots of sizes and colors.