Does Anyone Keep Their Collections In Stock Cards ?

A neat example of reciprocating reasoning: this is exactly the same reason the stock card people prefer stock cards, though they might state it as:




Of course, if you are going to maintain a want list for your album(s), you can maintain a want list for your stock cards.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Remembering back now, when I was active in the 1990s I was getting worldwide new issues and I would store them on dealer cards until the new supplements came out at the start of the following year (or so). It worked well, with one exception (and this would be more of an issue for collectors of say post-1990 issues) - even the largest dealer cards were not big enough to hold large setenant issues that were starting to become common in this era. Strips in particular, if setenant along the longer dimension of the stamp, were the most common ones to be an issue, though se-tenant blocks of larger stamps also sometime were too big for even a large 107-type dealer card.

Cost wise it is a fairly inexpensive solution, and now that the cards being made appear to be on acid-free paper (I don't think they were in the 1990s, but could be wrong on that point) they would acually make for a good solution to organizing a collection. Treat it like a card-catalog and leave yourself room to add new additions and in the end all should be good.

Though personally I still like the look of a collection put on pages more than having to flip thru cards one by one, so I will stick to my Vario Stockpages :)

I found the Vario too rigid , so I will for sure dislike the Prinz

Just curious Area66, what do you mean by "too rigid" with the Vario (stockpages??).

Hi


In my friend's stamp store he has large three ring binders with stockcards. Some of these cards are from the 1970's and I have not seen any damage to stamps, except when someone was not careful inserting a stamp.

Jerry B

too rigid to be use in a 2 post binders, I have 3 or 4 rings binders

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (quoting myself, and not for the first time :) )

I recently took up stamp collecting again and have acquired a few hundred stamps that I decided to file, permanently, on A6 stock cards. I'm very happy with this system, since it allows new stamps to be added to my topical collection without any hassle. I have an Avery sticker label affixed to the back of each card with basic information about the stamps, and I created an attractive set of color-printed index cards for each country with its national coat of arms. For now, I have the cards stored in archival photo boxes, but I am hoping to acquire a card catalogue cabinet in the long term.

I view stock cards as a place to stock stamps until I either have a place to put them in a collection or get rid (sell, trade, donate) them.

I use them to sort stamps esp. if I get a big kiloware lot.

Some stamps I put in a commercially available album. Others I make my own pages or albums. But stock cards are a temporary storage area, in my opinion.