Stock Book

can somebody please explain to me what a stock book is id be forever grateful

It is like a generic stamp album where you can put your stamps in

so does that mean there just a bunch of stamps not worth having

I use mine to store stamps until I get around to mounting them in my album. My stock book is like a temporary album. Some collectors use them to house their trading stock in.

Over here in Europe, using stockbooks is the norm, both for your collection as for trading stock. I think using hinges became out of fashion 40 or 50 years ago... They are only used in the cheaper country albums (more expensive ones are of the hingeless type where you put the stamps in clear plastic mounts with or without black backing) and for approval books.

For me, I would not be collecting stamps if there had not been stockbooks, I find it far too unpractical to meddle with hinges...

Jan-Simon

Stock books are still used by stamp venders to hold their stock for easy in easy out when selling or viewing by the buyer. You'll see them if you ever go to a stamp show/convention.

I use mine to store stamps that I have catalogued until I have a proper album in to hinge them( yes I still hinge them). I think sorting spares to sort is a good idea also I may pick a couple up and start doing that. It's realy a pain going through all those stamps to find something specific.

Dianne

This is an example of my stock books. I use them to keep my favorite collections together. These are from my WWII Czechoslovakia stamps from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I also keep any extras I have from each collection in the back for trading.

Tina, I just found out recently about stockbooks too. I am looking for some to put my stamps that aren't going into any of my albums or that I have extras of.

I use hinges in my US album. I didn't know that peope didn't use them anymore! I'm really a newbie, aren't I?

stefanib123 welcome to the forum dont feel bad I am probably the baby of the newbees I inherited my collection and when I first joined this site I knew not a thing I've learned quite a bit from these guys and gals they have been at it a long time some before I was even born so welcome great group here

G'Day Tina I use 10 stock books for various thing I collect,one I use for all the duplicate of my main stamp book collection and another for my triplicates of the same stamp and or the many multiples,so don't disregard those stamps that are in the stock books as they could be a little gold mine .
Tina I'm head down an A up on a Airport project at the moment (should have been in bed 2 hours ago ),I will email you on the weekend to reply to yours
regards Harry

Beautiful display Sharksfan..heres a page of my favorite stamp the Waterlow 10 cent Guatemala and various overprints !

I use hinges ! I prefer to collect used stamps..most of those I purchase have already been hinged...so whats the harm to hit it again ?????

On hinges I'll agree with you philb, if they been hinged you can't devaluate the stamp anymore and you save $ in the mean time.

Hi Tina
I find that stock books are great for storing quantities of stamps but not so good if you want to include some description or interesting information or background about your stamps in a presentation type page.
That's where albums come into their own I find.
You can also use Davo type protectors to hold your stamps and hinge those to the page if you don't want to hinge the stamp.
(Davo might be just one of a number of brand names for these stamp protectors) I am sure members of the group can suggest many more.
Regards
John