Carrying Stamps in your Filofax

Do you remember writing letters? Taking a pen and writing on a piece of writing paper, then folding it and putting it an envelope (that symbol you see to send an email!) 

On the outside of the envelope you write the name and address of the person you are sending the letter to. You then put a stamp in the top right hand corner of the envelope on the side you have written the address and post it in a mail box. 

Stamps are like the currency of letter writing, you pay the post office a certain amount to send a letter of a certain size and weight. Once they receive your letter it travels through their system and within a few days it will be delivered to the person you sent it to. 

In the world of ever increasing electronic communications, where we can send a message in seconds without using stamps and envelopes, our children and grand children would read the above description of 'sending a letter' and roll their eyes at the thought of how slow the process was!

In years gone by, we were all letter writers in some form or another. We might have kept a stock of stamps of different values to cover the cost of postage to different countries or for different sizes of letters. 

Some Filofax organisers had stamp pockets in their covers in the same way they have business card pockets now. At some point they also made an insert to hold stamps in your Filofax. 

My wife Alison has one of these inserts. 

It is made out of card in Personal size with six rows of semi transparent paper that you tuck the stamps behind. 

Unfortunately there's no branding or date shown on the insert. The closest thing I can find mentioned in the 1937 catalogue is a 'Stamp Approval Card' but there's no illustration of it, so that is just a best guess really. 

In discussion with Neil, we also believe that this type of insert might have been used by stamp collectors (philatelist) to carry stamps they had bought for their collection or ones they were about to sell. 

These days you could use such an insert for your decoration stickers? 

Do you carry postage stamps? 

[Update]

Christopher, one of our UK readers sent me a photo of his solution to carrying stamps in his Finsbury Mini. 

Thank you Christopher.

[Up date 2]

Eric wrote in with the photo below:

I carry my stamps in an envelope you get at the french post-office when you buy "lickable" stamps.
It is made of waxed paper or something like that, to avoid the stamps sticking to it.
You can't find something better than what has been designed for the job...
Just cut off the flap, punch it, and it fits very well in a personal filofax.