Here's a unusual ephemera item that came buried in a local estate purchase. A "stamp wheel" for identification - the second side (not pictured) is much the same. Made in 1952 by Saco Stamps. Not in great shape, but a lovely addition to my small collection of ephemera!

TO this point I only had a small collection of stamps (US/Soviet aerospace stuff, dating from the Apollo-Soyuz mission onwards, and some Bicentennial related stuff) but I recently bought a large lot of paper ephemera (to make art with) and part of the lot was 22lb of vintage philatelic material. That turns out to be a HUGE amount of paper

These stamps/albums/postal ephemera are so cool in front of me I hesitate to use them for art, and the contents so voluminous I feel overwhelmed

But what do I have? I the date of other materials seem to indicate 1930's through 1950's printing dates.

I have many glassine (sp?) envelopes with "Special Offer from Louis Merrill, Portsmouth OH (which is the location from where I purchased the lot)

Parameters: I'm in a wheelchair, retired with a lotta time on my hands... so I don't mind a lotta repetitive busy-work.

I just need a bit of direction/advice to take my time, evaluate what I have and then.. maybe I'll still use it all for art :)

The albums themselves (guessing 40-50 seem fragile and cloth covers are detaching. There are hundreds of small glassine envelopes or substitute 1950's era bank envelopes fulla postage.... but since the first couple albums fell apart when removed, Im worried about the mess/loss.

Some really cool stuff from places that don't exist anymore tho.

UK Royal Mail stamps, the mushroom collection!