Do you use damaged stamps as a filler?

Great topic, crazyquilter !

I'm with toyempire . I'm always using space fillers until I can get a better condition stamp to replace it.

However, if you are concerned about getting a good price if the collection is eventually sold, it would be wise to notate space fillers, just as it would be wise to notate premium stamps.

When a dealer/buyer evaluates a collection, we pretty much make a significant automatic deduction in the offer when we start seeing unmarked space fillers -- the assumption is that there are likely many other space fillers in the collection that we won't see until we go through the collection with a fine tooth comb after purchase. When we see space fillers properly notated, we can make a much more accurate offer/bid rather than a general over-all reduction.

Some members may already be familiar with the penciled notation beneath the space I use for premium stamps (put one dot for each order of magnitude in catalog value; i.e., "." for $1+, ".." for $10+, "..." for $100+ and so on). My plan is to notate space fillers with a small "x" beneath (typical of most dealers), but I haven't gotten around to doing that yet. smiley-face-whistle-2 (there would be too many x's on my album pages)