The Crystal-Clear Interleaving Stockbooks Dilemma

Ok, I won't call it a dilemma, but I figured out that the most appealing way to stock and show your most prized pieces of collection is to use those stockbooks with double crystal -clear inter leavings. That way, you could let the kids admire your collection & not be afraid they sneeze on it, while at the same time seeing in good detail the attributes of each of your stamps. The problem is, these double interleavings tend to stick together (electrostatic?), pulling off by the same time your souvenir sheets from their pages.

Any collector running into the same kind of problem or have a good tip as to how we can come around this problem?

I intend to keep using those stockbooks.

Thanks for your inputs!

It is for that very reason that all but a couple of my stockbooks have glassine interleaving. The clear interleaving looks very nice and I spent extra to buy a couple early on, but I eventually decided it was not worth the trouble. In additional to page turning problems, you also have to deal with possible damage to larger stamps/blocks/SS clinging to the interleaving or getting caught by the /sharper/stiffer interleaving edges. Also, when the clear interleaving gets creased or accidentally folded over, it is irrecoverable (i.e., the mark will always be there and your "clear" interleaving will no longer be perfectly "clear".

I also use glassine interleaving instead of clear interleaving in my hinged albums for the same reasons.

I'm thinking my first stock book this weekend so the information about glassine interleaves answers a question I had. Thank you khj. DD

That problem is one reason why I store souvenir sheets in Vario pages. The second is the sheets (and stamps also) are much more likely to be damaged if they stick out beyond the sleeves in the stock book.