Roll Of Coils - US 490.

This is the first roll of classic US stamps I have ever purchased and I now have the challenge of storing and/or displaying an entire roll of stamps.

I have a number of questions

1) How many line pairs can I expect to find in a full roll? 10?
2) Why are there no paste-up pairs listed by Scott - or were the sheets not cut? If not cut, would there be gutter pairs?
3) How does one properly store or display a roll of stamps?

Brian

I have one of those plastic generic tacklebox boxes that consist in rows of plastic dividers, and then plastic tabs that can be inserted for vertical dividers, allowing you to make various compartments of various sizes. I had been using it to sort my US stamps. It seems to me that something like that might also work nicely for storing coils.

Here is a random picture of one. Mine is larger.

For horizontal coils, there appears to be a line after every 17 stamps. If your coil roll has 500 stamps then 500/17 = 29 (approximate) lines, if it has 1000 stamps then 1000/17 = 58 (approximate) lines. These are rotary press coils rather than flat plate coils so that there are no paste ups for cuts or gutters with these. These horizontal coils were printed from two rotary plates of 170 stamp subjects each (vertical coils from two rotary plates of 150 stamp subjects each) and the line represents where the two plates met each other after every 17 stamps on each plate (for rotary press vertical coils it would be after every 15 stamps).