The stamp album for the collector on the go.

The pocket stamp album Cities Amsterdam Airport is a trendy, ultra-slim, ultra-light postage stamp stock book for globe-trotters and collectors on the go. This pocket size stock book is the perfect companion during your trips, fitting in any pocket or purse to protect and transport safely your stamps.

Inspired by mobility, discretion and practicality, the pocket stamp album Cities Amsterdam Airport offers all the advantages of a stock book while on the move:

• high quality, acid-free durable paper (+320gsm) with a 'Ton sur ton' design (black on black) in hot foil print on intense black mat
• Din-A6 size (90x154x4mm) when folded fitting pocket size dimensions.
• 3-panel rolled fold sturdy black cardboard pages with a magnetic clasp closure
• lay flat panel when unfolded
• 5 open ended PVC clear strips on each panel to ease stamp handling
• protective cover flap on each page to prevent stamps on adjacent pages from touching
• less than 50g in weight and 5 mm in height, making it the lightest and slimmest pocket size stock book on the market.
• limited edition number on the clasp panel, to easily distinguish each stamp album

With the pocket stamp album Cities Amsterdam Airport, you will stop carrying heavy stock books at exhibitions, auctions & club meetings. Unlock the album by pulling away the magnetic clasp and unfold the panels to expose the pages and place the valuable stamps you just purchased or those you want to trade.As a collector hunter, bring back stamps from your holidays as souvenirs in this discrete Amsterdam Airport design album. As a gift, its unique cover will enchant your stamp collector friends and relatives.

Not a collector? The pocket stamp album CITIES Amsterdam Airport will be the perfect place to store your postage stamps to send birthday cards, business correspondence, pen-pals letters or postcards.

The pocket stamp album Cities Amsterdam Airport is designed, produced, manufactured, hand-assembled by small craft companies in the Netherlands. Each exemplar is a true unique Amsterdam souvenir you have to bring home.

Schiphol Airport: Amsterdam City icon.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (IATA: AMS) is the main international airport of the Netherlands. Schiphol connects people and businesses for more than 100 years since the landing of a small aircraft on September 19th 1916. In 2016, PostNL celebrated Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 100th anniversary issuing with a miniature sheet of 10 stamps retracing the development of the third busiest airport in Europe.

First Day Cover 738 celebrating: 100 jaar Schiphol (Photo Credits: NVPH)

In 1920, the first service between Amsterdam and London was started by KLM. That year, 440 passengers were carried, which was the beginning of Schiphol airport for civil aviation.
Since that time, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol continuously expanded and developed into an important airport in Europe, with more than 450,000 aircraft movements in 2015, to almost 60 million passengers’ arrivals and departures. Through Schiphol Airport, you can connect with other world citizens, have unforgettable experiences, and pioneer.

The Schiphol air traffic control tower, with a height of 101 m, was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991[1]. The wayfinding signage was designed that year as well by the designer Paul Mijksenaar [2].

Silhouette/Skyline of Schiphol Aiport Air Traffic Control tower on the backcover

Schiphol is a city that never sleeps. It’s filled with amazing places to shop, dine or relax. Furthermore, the airport has a meditation centre, wellness facilities like a spa, manicures, pedicures, hairdressers. But also, a casino, a green park, golf, and much more entertainment while waiting for your connection. If you love art, head for the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol. The museum houses a permanent collection of works by some of the great Dutch masters, including Rembrandt , Frans Hals, and temporary exhibitions.

Stock books

Collectors have several options for safely storing and displaying their stamp collection. The most popular ones are stockbooks, stockpages in binders, pages in a binder (or album), or approval cards. Usually, stamp collectors maintain their collections in printed stamp albums devoted to their specific collecting interests, such as The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany... While they are a great way of displaying your stamps, the pages have only space for a single copy of a specific stamp. What about all those duplicates that we save for future use, be it trading/swapping or simply hoarding?

Amongst collectors, stockbooks are considered very practical for storing stamps not yet given space in printed albums, as well as keeping duplicates and extra stamps for trading. They are also recommended for starting topical collections or “safe-keeping” your most valuable.

Stockbooks are made of black/white acid-free sturdy cardboard pages, made up with horizontal strips of glassine paper or clear film, into which stamps are placed. The pages, usually double-sided, are bound into book form. The pages are interleaved with a glassine, or clear, sheet to prevent stamps on adjacent pages from touching.
The most popular A4-size stockbooks comprise between 16 and 64 pages. Most manufacturers advertise the number of sides, not the number of hard cardboard pages. Therefore, a stock book advertised as a '16 page' stock book, usually has 8 double sided cardboard pages.

Cover Material can be rigid or padded, with a dull finish, a leather-like finish (leatherette), or real leather. Padded covers and leather covers are more expensive than a rigid, leatherette stock book. The covers are available in several colours to distinguish them.

The binding method is an essential criterion defining the quality of a stock book: from the basic rigid hinged pages, suitable for a small album, to a more expensive double linen hinged pages for a larger stock book. Double linen hinged pages are worthwhile for larger stockbooks, as it helps the pages lie flat at all times.

Most importantly, the stock book must guarantee a safe storage of delicate valuable collectibles with acid-free and sturdy material. The counterpart is the weight and volume, a stockbook takes in your collection.Product Details:

• Limited Edition, unique numbered (1500 ex.)
• Color: ‘ton sur ton’, black on black,
• Design in shiny hot foil print on deep black matte high quality stiff card.
• Pages: 3 pages of 5 rows.
• Magnet closure
• Dimensions: 90x154x4mm (cir. din-A6 format)
• Weight: 40 gram

References:

• Wikipedia.org: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Paul Mijksenaar, Stock book
• Stamporama.com: FAQ Stamp Albums
• discovertopicalstampcollecting.com: Why You Need Stockbooks To Organize Your Postage Stamps Collections
• linns.com: Stop bad things from happening to your good stamp collection, Janet Klug, 26.09.2011
• linns.com: Use stock books to organize and enjoy your stamp collection, Janet Klug, 12.12.2011