Anchor Stock Pages - Any Good?

Rogdcam,
You mention that these pages are manufactured in China. The screen shot from the original post shows that they are made in Japan. Why do you say that they come from China?
I do not want to chip away business from the Vario company (German), but they do not offer what I want. I will also say that the quality of Vario stock pages is not all that.
I only am asking, like the OP, if anyone has had experience with them and can make a recommendation.

I have purchased many Anchor stock pages over the last few years. I first encountered them on ebay and they were less expensive than the more well known brands. I use stock pages mostly to temporarily house stamps before placing them in my albums or to store duplicates. I have not found any difference between the Anchor pages than the other brands except for those pages that have glued strips on stiff paperboard. The latter have caused numerous problems as the strips come loose from faulty glue. This is also an annoying problem with some black page stock books with clear strips.

I have been using Anchor stock pages for some time now. They have excellent quality and are very much comparable to Lighthouse products. They are much cheaper, a set of 65 double sided pages (130 sides) costs 37$ with tax and shipping (~28 CENTS a side). My primary mode of stamp organization and display is stock pages and Anchor works great.

Hello,
I see that this topic has been dormant for 3 years now. Any further updates/experiences with anchor stock pages? I still see firstamps selling them on ebay and he has excellent reviews. I am particularly interested in experiences of members in this group. Anybody using them as primary method of display? I know Johnsim03 and dbuss have used them in the past
aragorn

I have used Anchor stock sheets and will continue to use them in the future. In fact, I just bought some clear one-sided sheets from Anchor yesterday. I use a lot of stock sheets. The best recommendation I can give is that I am very picky with supplies and would not hesitate to use them for any project.

John

If you want to do an accelerated aging test, just put them in a hot place (like a hot attic) for an extended time and see what happens.

"If you want to do an accelerated aging test, just put them in a hot place (like a hot attic) for an extended time and see what happens."

Accelerated testing of polymers is performed in forced air draft ovens. For the polymers we talk here, the temperatures are usually set at 150C (300F), sometimes lower (120-135C) for low density polymers. Samples are periodically taken out of the oven and checked for colour and/or mechanical degradation (Hooke's law, essentially).

Depending on what is in the commercial polymers being tested (and there ALWAYS is "stuff" within a plastic, there are NO additive-free polymers in the world), these oven aging tests take weeks to months (even years) until they show degradation.

I'm afraid your attic will be busy for years.
(In another thread, I showed some badly degraded Lindner stock pages after 25+ years stored out of light in albums).

Whatever you use eventually, I can only recommend keeping a close eye on stock pages after 15-20 years. Degradation usually starts at the most exposed places of the sheets (like punched hole rims, any edges, thermally fused bits etc).

There really is no telling what the pages you just bought will do with time. My guess is most of those pages whatever brand, if not all, come from China due to cheap costs.

I began using Anchor pages in 2020, and have been very happy with them. They do not separate and curl at the ends like Vario, and they do not snag on the binder rings and come apart like Vario. I have hundreds of both brands, and I prefer the Anchor pages. I have stopped buying Vario because of their poor quality.

Thank you Johnsim03 and Jr Ratfish. These are the answers I was hoping to get. I am going to order a bunch of these from the same ebay seller.
Angore and dr kohler 10-20 years is a long time and I will take it. I can always move over to a new page by that time with minimal fuss.
aragorn

Yes, and I will add that you get what you pay for. Five years of use is hardly proof of quality. Personally, I would only store minimum value stamps in these for prolonged periods of time.

PS: I stated before that these are from China and there was pushback for some unknown reason. One poster mentioned Japan as the origin. There is no proof of that. In fact, there does not appear to be ANY readily available documentation of where these are made OR what they are made of.

PPS: If they are made in China the odds are near 100% that they are made by Uyghurs (slave labor) because plastics in China are made exclusively in this way.

Hi Rogdcam,

The info sheet on the first page of this thread clearly states the country of origin (Japan) in the lower right hand corner.

Do you think that this is a lie?

I have no reason to not believe it...

John

It does not matter as much as where they are made but the chemical composition of the pages. But, most ebay sellers do show Japan is country of origin.

I say that these are made in China because the labeling means next to nothing. China has found many ways to avoid the quality stigma that comes with the Made in China label.

More importantly though, China manufactures fully 50% of the worlds plastics compared to Japan's 3%. You cannot convince me that these plastic-centric collectible supplies are actually made in Japan. That does not compute.

Try doing a deep search into who makes Anchor brand stock pages. Use the UPC codes and any other tool and you come up empty. That tells me a lot.

rod
this raises an important question. Are Vario pages made in china too?

I guess the chemical composition does not interest you. If it was made in China with equal quality and of archival material, I would consider them. Vario quality has not been great.