Stock Books With Wax Interleaves, Who Uses Them ?

In an effort to clean up my stamp room I purchased a 16 page / dual sided stock book with the wax interleaves as a cheaper alternative for my duplicates and "to be sorted later" stamps.

It seemed a bit cheaper to go this route than the Vario G binders and vario pages that I house my main collection in.

Problem I have are these wax interleaves, what a pain in the arse as they keep getting folded, bent, and beaten everytime I open the book, will the static cling go away at some point ?

I use them for the same thing. Occasionally a interleave may get folded but not as a general rule. I have never noticed any static cling. Perhaps the humidity in my house is higher ??

I have a few of the slimmer ones like the ones you describe and I'm in total agreement with you that the interleaving sucks! I received a couple from an old auction lot that someone has pulled them out so that could be an option if wish to put forth the effort to do so (there is a lot of them- lol). They work great without them for your edification. -Jeff

Trying to find something useful to say for my 300th post.

During my early years as a collector, I used Lighthouse stock books with inter-leaving and found them very difficult. Hard to get stamps in and out of them for one thing although the interleaves never bothered me much. Now, I keep mint duplicates on Vario sheets and, hold your hats, used stamps of lesser value on the old-fashioned boxboard stock pages. You still need to be careful moving stamps around but they are easier to use than the stock books. I also make liberal use of small glassines which fit nicely in the stock sheets. Stock pages are kept in Lighthouse 3-ring binders and they are stored upright to keep stuff from moving around.

I've got about 170 stockbooks (LightHouse, Lindner, Davo and few other brands as well), all with (waxed) glassine interleaves + white pages, and I've had zero problems with the interleaves.

Either you got some second grade books (they do exist) or then something is seriously wrong with the environment (temperature/humidity).

-k-

I di not use wax paper but have custom made Books from Galsine
Papers. About 21. 16 are I can store Full sheets each is of 96 or 100
Pages. other 5 are of different sizes so small S.V sheets can be
accommodated. Rest am Using Stock sheets. Showgard or fro Amos.
I use 1 1/2" and 2" D ring Folders. for Protector sheets.

tikithindi

I purchased the Lechtturm stock book. it seems very high quality with a nice hard bound cover.

I have received many home made construction cardboard folded with cut wax squares separating the stamp sheets, maybe how the do it your self-er did at little cost in the old days.

I have some older binder/book type with the wax or glassy paper too and yep they get creased easily and they tear in the corners.

I think in time the wax/glass gets brittle and brown in color too.

Actually, I don't know of any stock book that uses wax paper. Lighthouse and other used glassine interleaves. Storing stamps next to wax paper will result in transfer damage to the stamps.

Is there a code on the back? Leuchtturm/Lighthouse has got a number of product for stockbooks (Basic, Comfort, Comfort Deluxe, Luxus and Premium). These all have got slightly different materials; Basic is the cheapest and Premium is the 'king of the hill' with real leather covers etc. Based on my experience I'd say that Comfort has got the most issues.

Additionally, like I wrote before, they release some 2nd grade stock books (at heavily discounted prices) every now and then. Not sure if these are sold in the US.

I received a 10-pack of Basic W books for Christmas. Have already filled six of them; zero issues with interleaves :)





Agree. But some dealers still used the term 'waxed glassine paper' (which is why I used term 'waxed' in parentheses first place).

Interesting comment. scb. In 65 years of collecting I've never heard the term "waxed glassine paper" before.

Me neither.

Don't quote me for using the incorrect term because I really don't know what the exact composition of the interleaves is, to me it seems similar to wax paper. To SCB, it is a basic S stock book.

Yeah, they are very light and can get folded easily. I only have one stockbook of that syle, and I do like it, I just unfold them and put them back the way they belong. Eventually they will straighten out. In winter, cling is a problem because it is so dry. I just muddle along. I keep my Panama duplicates in it, so I refer to it more often than my other stockbooks.

I've got a Lighthouse comfort line stockbook and the static cling on it can be horrific at times. At the very first it was kind of nice because the interleaving clung tightly to the pages, but after awhile they loosened up to where they just want to bunch up and crease. I definitely have to be careful and make sure the interleaving is completely flat before turning a page. It can make for a very slow, laborious effort to just turn pages and find what I'm looking for.

For what it's worth, In Finland (and AFAIK also in Germany) it's called 'pergamin', which can be misleading because different sorts of bakery papers share the same title (and look similar).

As for composition, it's 100% wood cellulose according to my sources ;)






Ah, that tells a lot... The behavior is entirely because of clear strips and the static charge they create (AFAIK glassine itself is 100% anti-static).