Dennis's Stamp Hinges

Like many I miss the old Dennison hinges but now I see there is something that seems to being offered as similar to it at least in name. Not sure what to make of it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Denniss-Sta...378008812%26

Has anyone heard of these or know anything about them?

Read pages 1108-1113 at this link for a summary of the various stamp hinges that have been available through the years, including the Dennis brand:

http://digital.ipcprintservices.com...=133838&p=30

Briefly stated, Subway Stamp Co. acquired the equipment from Dennison for manufacturing their hinges after Dennison stopped production. Unfortunately, the "wannabee" brand resulted in Dennis hinges but were never considered anywhere near equal to the original. As a result, the manufacturing equipment was mothballed and the Dennis brand hinges were discontinued shortly after they hit the market. I believe the Dennis hinges may be marked with "G&K" which is a subsidiary brand name of products marketed by the Subway Stamp Company.

If you really want to buy peelable stamp hinges that are "the original Dennison" brand, consider this ebay listing:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ONE-ORIGINA...em3384496497

Thanks for the information on Dennis. It surprises me how many packets of the old Dennison Hinges continue to show up on ebay. I wish I had stocked up on them when they were around 50 cents a pack :)

I have an opened packet of Dennison hinges, but I have no idea how many are in there to know what to ask for them. I would weigh them but my little scale wouldn't be able to tell the difference +- 20. Anyone know a weight on a full pack?

Hi,
An unopened smaller size pack of 1000 Dennison's weighs 16 grams. The larger size envelope would likely be 17-19 grams. If your pack is unopened, it should be just fine - having "1000" stamps. I've bought several off of ebay the last 10 months, ranging from $11 - $18 a pack. I tried others, and they just didn't give the same results.

Watch out for Dennison vs Dennisen hingers. The later, I believe, were sold by Unitrade and are NOT what you want. Dennison were sold by the company that eventually became Avery-Dennison.

I had read somewhere that the issue with the Dennis hinges was that the glue could not be reproduced, since it contained animal products, possibly from horses, that are no longer used in the manufacture of adhesives.

yum, I just had some cow for dinner off the BBQ, I suppose that horse would taste similar

Just curious...is it hard to decide whether it is worth using a two-cent hinge on a one-cent stamp?

Are there stamps that aren't 'hinge-worthy'?

I've had good luck with cutting a traditional hinge in half with a scissors and getting double the amount of hinges out of a package. It works for many of the small definitive and commemorative stamps; the larger "jumbo" stamps and/or souvenir sheets would require more of a hinge than that, but for the most part it doesn't much matter as most collectors wouldn't put hinges on that sort of material in the first place.

MOBILMAN 44--------You need to come to Chicago on August 24,2012 ,so me and you can split a stamp auction lot that's up for bid . Its 150 packets of Dennison Hinges and 48 packets of Fold-o-Hinges and other packets of stamp mounts .The lot should go between 1800.00 and $2500.00 ,its a little more than I could use ,but if your not interested then im going to end up with a two life-time supply .....lol.

Gee Floortrader, Chicago is my hometown (1944-1967) and I would love to go for a visit. But, just this weekend I won 3 auctions for Dennisons and that should last me for months.

While I'm here, when I first got back into the hobby last year, I used 3 kinds of hinges - one being Dennisons. Well, it wasn't long before I got some replacement Scotts pages and needed to transfer stamps to them. The Scotts peeled beautifully - saving the stamp and the old album pages. A second brand was only fair, and the third was impossible and I had to soak the stamps. The lesson I learned was that the auction price of the Dennisons is well worth it in the long run.

Floortrader, why don't you just buy the lot and sell some to your friends at SCF?

I'm sure there are members who would buy some Dennisons (like me)!

Kathey-----Im sure there is going to be a few ebay dealers going after that lot of Dennison Hinges ,they all have a resale price fiqured out and im sure it will go to the level were the profit margin will be too thin or someone will buy it for future price advancement . But as a collector I should be able to push the price were a dealer would make no money much like nice stamp collections ,every dealer has a top bid price ,were I can buy without a thought to what can I get for it . It will come down to two or three collectors bidding it to a final price .

okay, Im curious! Is this just a nastalgia thing?????
I mean; hinges degrade the value of a stamp right?
does the right hinge add value to a certain stamp?
Is it because Scott, hawid, showgard stamps are expensive?
I can certainly understand the latter.

Hinges are not the preferred method of stamp mounting anymore (stamp mounts took that over years ago). However, there are still loads of stamps that people still want to mount in albums and with some having a minimum value of a quarter or less, it is just not economically feasible to use stamp mounts that can often cost more than the value of the stamp itself, especially with all of the different sized mounts needed for the array of stamps offered today. Remember, a stamp hinge can be used on virtually any sized stamp -- and those who are really frugal can cut them in half and double the quantity of hinges at hand for what amounts to only a fraction of a cent per stamp; not so with stamp mounts that can cost upwards of 10 cents or more per stamp (depending on size and quantity, not to mention shipping costs).

For example, I have collection of precanceled stamps that are all used and for the most part have a minimum catalog value, so the idea to mount them on an album page by precancel type within each City and/or State means I have to use stamp hinges, as stamp mounts would be prohibitively expensive given the thousands of stamps I have in this one collection.

This is where stamp hinges come in. No, they don't add any value to a a stamp (they detract from it) but the idea is that they are the most economical way of mounting stamps on an album page and they should be removable with as little damage to the stamp as possible.

Dennison hinges had a long and solid reputation with the stamp collecting community that has made them the premium choice for stamp hinges. When Dennison discontinued their stamp hinges, collectors went scrambling to find any NOS (new old stock) in dealer inventory and when depleted, they went looking for the best competitors hinges out there but quickly found that none of the present manufacturers can compete with the removable qualities of the original Dennison's. That's precisely why they command a premium price on the secondary market.