A HISTORY OF WHITE ACE STAMP ALBUMS
Dating from the Golden Age of Stamp Collecting, The Washington Press was founded in 1933 by Leo August, a New Jersey philatelist, stamp dealer, and publisher, along with his brother, Samuel August. By the end of WW II, they were producing and selling more United States stamp albums than any other company except the Harris Publishing Company of Boston. White Ace albums were more expensive than Harris albums and served a market niche of more upscale collectors.
One of the most popular stamp albums in the United States has been the White Ace specialty album series for United States stamps. The albums, produced by the Washington Press, have had lasting popularity for over fifty years. The albums are printed on high quality paper and use attractive page layout and design. The paper they are printed on is acid free, an important consideration in stamp albums, as it protects the stamps from being damaged by acids leaching from the paper onto the stamps.
The albums are sold in many formats - singles, plate blocks, and blocks being the three most popular – so, that collectors can buy just the sections that they need. This has been one of the main reasons for the enduring popularity of White Ace stamp albums. Collectors could buy just the sections that they needed for the stamps they were collecting at any given point in times so that these collectors didn’t need to spend more money on albums than they need to.
White Ace also offers an extensive line of colorful blank pages for topical collections. With special pages for Birds, Flowers, Black History, and over 30 additional thematic subjects, no other philatelic printing house provides such pages.
In addition to White Ace Album Pages, the August Brothers also printed and sold high quality Art Craft First Day Cover Cachets. An early driving force in expanding the hobby of collecting First Day Covers, Art Craft FDCs spawned a new area of philately and the brothers were instrumental in the founding of the American First Day Cover Society in 1955. Production of Art Craft Cachets was ended in 2016 but collectors still seek the existing 80 years of beautiful covers.
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