Are These Stamp Hinges Any Good?

new stamp hinges- Are these any good?

They work fine, if you are looking for peelable though I haven't found that they are very peelable. The best hinges for being able to cleanly peel them off was the Dennison hinges. They don't make them anymore but they show up on ebay regularly for a hefty price.

I know that's what I always used.

Hi,
There are several auctions on ebay this morning for the Dennison hinges. While the sellers are "proud" of their offerings, a pack or two of 1000 should last for some time.

MOBIL-----A packet or two should last for some time ?..... I purchase groups of 10 or sometimes boxes of 50 from Dr BOB ,I think I purchased over 200 packets ,plan to have enought for retirement and maybe resell a few as we top $20.00 a pack......investing in hinges has been a steady upward move ....

Most hinges I've used are "peelable"...just add a bit of moisture (with a q-tip or small paint brush), or re-soak if there is hinge build-up. I won't succumb to the high price of vintage hinges, especially when the price of them exceeds the price of the stamps you put them on. Heck, why not just display the hinges?

ILS,

I have used the supersafe hinges for stamps that are of minimal value otherwise I use fold-o-hinge. One method I have used to make them a little more usable is after I wet them I dab them once on my wrist then on the stamp. Likewise when I mount it onto a page. It takes some of the stickiness of the hinge off. Sometimes I have had more stick. Other times I have had to re-hinge because the stamp falls off. Most of the time it has been acceptable for my purposes. By all means experiment with it.

Floortrader,
I would think that for a good portion of stamp collectors, 2000 hinges would last awhile. Now if you are just starting to put a massive accumulation into albums, maybe you could get thru them pretty quickly. Somehow I don't think the OP was in that situation. In any case, there were quite a few packs of Dennison's on ebay, just waiting for a bid.................

MOBILMAN -----Let me explain myself better ,I use large amounts of stamp hinges in my hobby . I found that by using a ten volume international or some other album group to fill up with stamps for two or three years and then review that collection of mounted stamps to my main collection . This serves three purposes for me,first it reduces the handling of binders and damage/wear and tear to my main collection .Second it gives me a better return when I resell the duplicate stamps,the stamp auction firms are getting higher prices for mounted organized collections than boxes of glassines and stocksheets.The third is that im replacing stamps with better quality condition and nicer cancels in my main collection .So it wouldn't be unusally to go thru 5 or 10 packets of hinges a year.

Just a cautionary note if I may - don't confuse the Dennison hinges posted above with Dennis's Stamp Hinges. The latter are recent, come in a specially cut & folded cardboard box, have a pic of a young boy on the front and do NOT peel. They'll soak off but never peel. An amusing marketing technique in name and the motto at the bottom saying "Just Like Grandpa Used!" - Phooey!

The original peelable Dennison's hinges can be thought of as expensive at, say $20 a pack of 1000. But compare this with the cost of 1000 cut to size mounts at around $1.66 to $2.40 per 25 (equivalent of UK cost), which runs out at $96.00 per 1000 for the large sizes, and it seems quite reasonable. Especially for collectors like myself who mainly buy MLH or interestingly postmarked used stamps. I'm off now to check out those ebay offerings.

Terry

I have used a couple pf packs of these Supersafe hinges and found them to be NOT peelable. If one removes a stamp with this hinge from an album, it almost always results in paper tear of the album page. One has to soak the stamp to then remove the hinge or hinge remnant.

I have never tried the Q-tip process or the wrist tap mentioned above and will keep them in mind. All of my 19th century stamps go in mounts, so a pack of 1000 hinges lasts me about two years.

Donald

In the interest of economy, I've found it effective to cut a bunch of stamp hinges in half. It doubles the quantity of hinges available for the price and there is less hinge residue left on the stamp and album page. It holds just as well, too.

Hi Everyone,
I am VERY curious to see what your stamps look like with the hinges on them. I mean.... are you stamps hinged and then do you put them in a binder? On a full 8 1/2 x 11 page? On a fancy stock page or printed out card stock? I am so curious!

Thank you!
SueStamps

Here's an example I have. These pages were given to me years ago with a few stamps partially mounted. I simply continued on to complete the page. For me, stamp hinges are primarily used for cheap stamps and/or precancels. The better stamps (and of course, mint stamps) are always put in either Vario pages or stamp mounts.



I have also created my own album pages with hinged stamps on quality acid free paper, as shown here:

That's what I'm doing with them too. I started an heirloom album, aside from my US classics vario binder, and am just hinging in the rest. I see no reason to buy mounts for 50's, 60's, 70, 80's...