Best Stamp Hinges

I like to make my own hinges I find the new type double sided tape works really good just cut a piece and stick in the album page and then place the stamp on it sticks really good. When I want to remove it just pick a corner and grip with a tweezer and pull really hard , with a little practise you will get the stamp off in one piece.

I wouldn't do this with my mint never hinged stamps,, I just lick them and stick in the page is that what the gum is for, I like to save my money .
I also like to keep a nice size glue pot on my desk and use a fine camel hair brush, just coat the back of the stamp with any old glue will do, but important to use the camel hair bush you don't want any lose hairs between the album page and stamp as this might damage the stamp.

Face it people, hinges are a thing of a by gone age,
Just like the old lick em stick em stamps.
The companies that supply mounts and hinges make a far better profit margin on mounts and hingles albums, and in this corprate world its all about bottom dollar.
The old dennison hinges were the best and demand top dollar on ebay.
But if one was to do the research and development to make a new hinge as good as the old ones do you really thing they will recoup the cost in this age.
Nothing wrong with using hinges, its you album and your stamps.
So buy all the stock you can once gone always gone.

see

http://www.stampsofdistinction.com/...per-use.html


" Why can't you make them any more? Because the adhesive was a horse-rendering byproduct (you read that right) and the FDA opposed its use on something the human tongue could touch. In these days of prion diseases, that's probably very good advice. "

Okka

Thanks Okka, prion diseases makes sense I knew it was not a secret blend of glue but a health reason to stop using the hoof glue

irishjack,

seems a good enough reason not to using the same ingredients. If they were mentioned on the pack might cut down the sales a mite,

Okka

To stop disease? Doesn't all those hoofs and bones have to be boiled for a long time to make the glue? And wouldn't that kill any bacteria or germ that was ever present in the material? Sounds like the glue lobby got to the FDA.

Anyone recognise this hinge please?

Blue green in appearance and absolutely exsquisite to peel.
I would like to source some.
Thanks.

Blue-green colored ones (at least in the US) are from the original packages of Dennison stamp hinges (long discontinued).

Back on page 2, Gille de timbres said...




I've got a really nice hard cover Coronet DeLuxe Album from 1962, with more than half the stamps glued in.
Won't be saving the album, unfortunately.

So to Gille, I'd say, I hope not!

Thanks wt1
now I know why they have the legend.

A very well written and interesting article on stamp hinges is found in the December 2012 issue of "American Philatelist" by Wayne Youngblood.

Peter

Sounds like a lot of old wifes tales{horses and hoofs]. I never got sick from licking stamp hinges and I licked one heck of a lot of hinges and still plan to lick a few hundred thousand more .I enjoy mounting stamps and now with the Steiner pages there is no limit to adding more albums to my collection.
I find most problems with stamp hinges is the people who use too much wettness to the hinge and that causes the next collector the problems.----My pet peeve is the people who lick the hinge after its already attch to the stamp or they wet it so much that the whole stamp sticks to the page and moisture gets between the stamp and the page .

I have ordered in my 100,000 new hinges to join you.

Just got my APS monthly magazine with the article about Stamp Hinges by Wayne Youngblood . ------very interesting read .
First is the comment that the glue put on the glassine paper was not controled by the hinge manufacture ,but it was purchase that way from a paper company-------so anyone looking into the peelable of the hinge needs to look at the paper company .
The next point of importance is that TALC was added to the glue to make it less sticky.Important point which was made by others is that by weight the best hinges had less glue on them by weight .
Have to say ,this article was a educational read.

I sure hope most of you think Fold-O-Hinge by the Harold Cohn & Co. are fairly good to use. I just bought 10,000 from E-bay.