Capacity Of Schaubek Albums

Hi there,

I am trygin to decide which albums to use for my collection. Schaubek declares their Senator binders can hold 90 standard pages (blank or squared background pages). But most other binders I know only keep 50/60 without overcrowding....

I wonder if they will host 90 pages once I print them and put the stamps in their mounts and the envelopes, postcards, etc...

does anyone have personal experience?

I just need to calculate how many binders to buy for my collection!

Juan

I use Schaubek for my German area collections, with these binders. The 90 page capacity is over optimistic. If you use mounts and have a decent number of stamps on the pages it is more like 60-70.

I haven't used the Schaubek ring-binders and pages I own yet, so take this as merely an estimate. Schaubek pages come either fairly thick or very thick. They're thicker than, say, Scott album pages. Modern stamp mounts are much thicker than stamp hinges. So, when you mount stamps with mounts, you're effectively doubling the thickness of each page. Maybe more than that. Remember the old sewn-binding albums? When they were only partly filled with stamps and hinges, they bulged so much their spines nearly split. Even stamps with hinges add a lot of thickness to pages.

If you own a Schaubek binder and have some pages, you could find out by putting in a 'comfortable' number of pages that don't overwhelm the rings. That might be the 90 pages Schaubek claims will fit. But that's empty pages, so you'd need to put in something like a couple of file cards between each page to simulate the thickness of a stamp in a mount. If you mounted your stamps only with hinges, I imagine you might get 80-90 pages in a binder. But Stamps1962 is correct. With stamps and mounts, you'll get a lot fewer pages in a binder. I'd guess his 60-70 is pretty close.

Max. number of pages always seems a bit less in reality than the manufacturer claims. Maybe they still calculate capacity based on using hinges but not mounts? Scott suggests 100 pages can fit in their small 3-ring binder and 250 in their large 3-ring and 2-post binders. Maybe with hinges, but with stamps and mounts, I've found that a little optimistic.