Strips Of Stamps - What Do You Do With Them?

What do you do with strips of stamps? Do you keep them together and somehow store them together? Do you break them apart into singles?

When posing a question of this type, may I suggest posting a photo with the inquiry. It would assist you in receiving a meaningful reply.

Currently, no one knows anything about these "strips".

A strip of stamps means one stamp attached to another stamp attached to another stamp - all in a row. A strip of stamps. Like when you have 5 of the same stamp but all attached to each other in a straight line. The strip isn't a single stamp, it isn't a block, it isn't a double. It's a strip of the same stamp like an entire row of the same stamp from a sheet. I don't think that anyone collects or displays them like that (in a strip). I'm just wondering what people do with them. I've been throwing them all in a box labeled "strips".

Well, now we know you are not discussing coil stamps.

This is a pre-1940 section. Still some pre-1940 stamps, singles or strips, are best used as postage to maximize value.

In other pre-1940 stamps, several varieties and Scott numbers can appear in such strips. The intact strip then helps identify positions.

It depends on what the stamp is. Some stamps are collected in strips (for example, US transpostation coils with plate numbers). If they are very old stamps (say US 19th century) by all means do not separate. If they are modern stamps without any extra features (plate numbers, marginal inscriptions, face-different designs, etc), then it's OK to separate.