Storing Large Used World Wide Collections

I have some old Scott Browns also, and as you say, the paper is falling apart. Those were certainly beautiful albums in their day. I found the Vintage reprints to be a good alternative, being printed on heavy stock.

I am assuming that most of you are hinging items into albums. How are contemporary hinges performing if you need to move used stamps around. How about with mint stamps?

The MINT NEVER HINGED crowd died a few years ago ,but there are a few philatelic zombies left . The rule today is --if your selling material it rises the price ,if your buying don't pay the extra juice .Only the mount manufactors and dealers selling supplies think it is important . Simple rule to follow is if its 60 years old and not hinged keep it that way .But all the modern stuff who cares if it catalogs under $50.00 ,it will only sell mounted in a album anyway.

...or simply use stock albums

To add to floortrader, if it's one of those low value CTO with gum at the back, I moist them and glue them directly on Steiner pages, if I need to move them, I will simply soak the page , on a real page album it will be different as I don't want ruin the pages. Anyway who is after "CTO cancel OG stamps" ? All true I will place a mint $ 49.99 stamps in a mount.

Blaamand, stockbook ; for me a stockbook is a temporary storage

Agree. Why make it more complex than necessary

-k-

SCB quite simple

why do this






when it's more simple to do this

Sounds fishy to me

Me I prefer like this





But it'S ok if you like it like this, everyone have the right to do what they want

Ha ha, I'm having a good time....
Naturally I was fully aware I would initiate this 'storm in a water bootle'
Waiting for more...

I think that the difference from one to another is more of an appreciation over time, and money. If you look at what my collection looked like when I started as a kid (chocolate thumb prints and all). To what it is today there would be a big difference. But from a different set of more experienced eyes my collection today, even after switching some albums a couple of times, might still have the same feel as my first. But the basic building blocks (stamps) are more taken care of. I may not have the money for a more elaborate or expensive collection or method of storing that collection but the objects in that collection are being taken care of now with a little more respect to preservation.

I thought the Philatelic Zombies would attack me .

Precisely for those reasons. I believe it was Einstein who said 'everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler'.


-k-

Einstein probably never say that, it's Roger Session who paraphrase Einstein...

Absolutely wisdom in those word, regardless who said them.
We have a saying in Norway which would almost translate into something like "The simpler, the better' - and another one along the same lines "The simple (way) is often the best (way)'.

Two keywords from me: Personal + preference