How To Manage Your Duplicates

I am surprised no one mention keeping duplicate stamps in a extra album .As a worldwide collector I purchase a extra set of used internationals . I put specialized material directly into my main collection ,but if I have a mixture lot or a bulk lot then I'll sort them and mount them in the spare Internationals collection .After a year or two then match that to my main collection . After I finish with it then I consign it to a stamp auction .This does two important things for me .....first ,it reduces the man-handling of my binders and keeps things cleaner . Second it maximizes my return on investments to buy more material.

Hi floortrader

Is an album not a stock book?

No ----I keep stockbooks for each major country for large pieces ,s/s and speciality items but all loose stamps I prefer using albums and mount the stamps .Mounting stamps on album pages bring the highest return when your selling off your duplicates .

Good tip floortrader

Dianne

But can someone send me a picture of one of your albums with duplicates?
Because I still don't really understand it...

Maybe because my autism limits me to imagine things.

Greetings, Rik

I put them in glassines which I put into boxes and then on shelf units in my store room. Certain countries get catalogued and others are just seperated by country and type. It's just grows. I need to thin the heard. I have four shelf units filled with boxes of glassines of stamps. I do remember when all my duplicates fit in one box but it was a very long time ago.

I have some stockbooks but I really don't like them. I much prefer Vario pages.

Let's say I get an envelope with 100 France 25c Sowers. I'll go through them and pick out the best examples. It might be shade, cancel, centering, etc.

Those (2 stamps? 5 stamps?) will go on a Vario page and the rest will go back in the envelope and the envelope goes back in a box for France and Colonies.

When I learn about something new to look for, I save it on my computer, with the idea that I'll take time to go back through the saved material.

Being interested in postmarks, sometimes it is hard to say whether any group of four or five, or twenty, stamps really are duplicates.

Rik,
This is a vario page that I use to keep duplicates. I keep the pages in an ordinary office binder.
Tom

Mostly in my market place and what I believe is that hings are used to hide paper thins, notations etc. If a stamp or stamps refer to older stamps, with a modern hinged stamp collection I run a country mile. But an old hinged collection attracts me full on.

But hings do seem to be one of those differences between the North of the world and the South of the world. Some great Australian collectors do use hings but it is not the common thing there I find in the market place. Hingless pages seem to rule here.

Album page threads on SCF seem to be dominated by the Northern part of the world. In all my years of collecting I have never used a hing.

It will be interesting to see if get some opposite opinions on this topic.

floortrader comment that has lots of people who agree with it!

Thank you Tom, for a clear photo.
This helps me in my imagination of making a stockbook.

Greetings, Rik

Glad to be able to help you Rik.
Tom

I've googeled on "glassine envelopes".
I now know how the look like, and where I can buy them.

So that's in my opinion a cheaper way to store my duplicates.
Or not???

Sorry for all these questions, but I am very unsure of myself...
Many many thanks,

Rik

I've also been using glassine envelopes for my duplicates. Recently I purchased some vario pages and binders and will start putting my duplicates in there. I believe they will be easier to trade or sell when one can see the stamps clearly. Have never sold any yet and do not know how easy that will be.

Glassines for me would be a difficult thing to organize thus the vario pages.
Tom

Okay, but if I buy some vario pages how much does it cost less then an album?
I can get here, in Holland, an album of 64 pages (32 double-sided) for ± 21 euro's (Label: Importa)...

So are vario pages cheaper then those albums?