Vintage Reproduction Albums

How would mounts work if you used clear top load mounts in strips across the rows and then inserted stamps in the strips where they belong. Would the stamps stay put or would they slide into one another?

When I tried this reasonably extensively, the pages became more difficult to turn.

Not good, did you remove them all or just being very careful turning pages?.

If you cut the mounts to the size of the boxes, will it give enough space to put the stamp in the mount?

I abandoned that particular album, after one of my many wrong turns! I can't comment on mount size versus box size for Scott, but mounts tend to be a little too large for my reprinted Gibbons Ideal, which is one reason I've gone back to hinges for anything but the rarer stuff.

Do you hinge mint stamps as well?

You know that with one of this you can cut mount strips the size you want; horizontal and vertical.

dutchman

I hinge previously mounted mint, unless they have a reasonably high CV.

Geoff

area66 - I have 2 of those, a large and a small but many of the older now called vintage albums have very small spaces not designed for mounts.

Same with the Minkus Global and Master albums. Have very little space for mounts as were desgned for hinges.

The scott international have a lot of room for mounts, but not so for the vintage reproductions.

GeoffHa - Do you then use mounts in the vintage albums for those, or store them elsewhere??

The reason I ask all these questions is I am looking at buying the vintage albums.

I did find out today that if you take the 2 post pages, you can 3 hole punch them to fit in any Lighthouse Vario G or F binders hence not having to buy the more expensive pages that use the specialty binders if you want 3 ring style

GeoffHa - Do you not have the Vintage Scott pages but the reproduced SG pages instead?

dutchman

I have a riot of albums! I use a reproduction SG Ideal album in three volumes for pre-1936 stamps. This is fastbound, so mounts need to be used sparingly. It suffers from the common problem of reproduced albums - better paper than in the 1930s, but poorer images of stamps. There are additional blank pages to add extras, but I've largely removed these to avoid bulging. Like any fastbound album and any album using a pre-war layout, it's not amenable to extensive use of mounts - either aesthetically or in terms of box-size.

I picked up a couple of Big Blues at auction a few years ago, but, while I liked the capacity, the stamp lay-out was a bridge too far for me. I didn't even know the term "semi-postals" at the time.

I have the sense that, whatever I decide is my definitive approach at any one time, I shall change my mind in due course.

Geoff

Dutchman is right ; I don't have the Vintage or the Subway , but I have the original Brown ( that I don't use ) and the vertical space between some row of stamps can be as low as 2.5mm, that make it impossible to use mounts. The Scott Int, don't go under 4 mm, and it's very tight

I got my set of vintage browns that I purchased on ebay very reaonable.

Does any one know of labels that can be used on the international binders that actually stick properly so the binders can be labeled?

dutchman,

Did you get the Vintage Reproduction reprints or are you talking about the original Scott Browns?

Just out this place, they can make custom Scott International binder labels

http://matildascheapsupplies.com/it...els/list.htm

The reproduction. All the pages and 11 jumbo international albums. They had never been used.