How Do You Store To Protect Your High Value Stamp

How docyou store and protect valuable item like 10k$ stamp ? Big sport cards 1" lucite screw holder ? Only in your stamp book ?
Share with me your protection and storage method for you verry high dollar item
With pic if its possible mthx

I see this protection method like in this video
Anyone know where buy case like that ?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VsIH5QS8Zos

Have been keeping mine in mounts and 102b display cards, which are then stored in heavy duty clear plastic zip bags.

Come on guys. Give him a break. I use standard Showguard mounts for my higher value stamps. They are mounted in the albums along with the rest of specific country collections. It's not a good idea to "slab" stamps, as putting them in plexiglass like coins. Stamps are made of paper; obviously; and paper needs to breath.

I keep high value stamps stored in quality pages/albums. The albums are stored on open air shelves and are removed at least once a month and are looked through. They are located in an separate room which is a dry and stable storage environment (held at a constant 70°F with a relative humidity held between 30% and 50%).

I am a big believer in good air circulation around the stamps I own and prefer to avoid anything that traps stamps inside anything which largely restricts circulation. This seems to me to be the approach which is most time proven and one where I do not feel like I am experimenting.
Don

Thank you Steve, for the common sense approach. The Original Poster needs to realize that the stamps shown in the documentary are not only rare, they are famous and are shown almost constantly at stamp shows. They have to be in something a bit more reliable than a mount or an envelope.

Peter

Welcome to the forum and feel free to ask any question that is important to you. One or usually more members will provide their answer to the question. Of course, you should first attempt to research the forum in case it has been addressed previously.

I've used mounts for all stamps without any damage to any over the past 40+ years. The mounts are glued onto 80 pound pages for insertion into albums. As a mint no hinge (MNH) collector, I have very few used stamps, but even those are mounted and inserted onto album pages the same as the MNH stamps.

To most of us, a $10.00 stamp is just another stamp, and does not require special care.

In my opinion, there is no need for more expensive protection methods unless the stamp has been professionally graded and valued at many thousands of dollars.

I do not get crazy about storing high dollar stamps. Just use common sense. Given that a MNH $5 Columbian for example has survived since 1893 through numerous collectors and for many decades before climate controlled environments were available to most people it is not that difficult to keep it in good shape. Do not store it in a storage locker, in the bathroom, in the basement, in the attic, on the desk by the Southern exposure window in Florida for a year or ten...... Theft and fire are my greatest concerns. Keeping stamps in a safe however should be done with extreme caution since humidity will be a major problem if the safe itself is not in a conditioned environment. And whatever you do make certain that your cat does not get its paws on them.

Ok thx
I keep in a safe but the safe is open each day of the year so I dont have concerns with humidity. My question was for big p'astic like on the video
Thx everyone

Sorry if I offend anyone

I'm sure you didn't. Don't understand why a handful of innocuous posts were summarily deleted.

I just use vario pages and vario binders with slip cases and they sit on a shelf. Now I don't have any million dollar stamps put I do have pieces that would fetch several hundred each.

BlackJag said: "To most of us, a $10.00 stamp is just another stamp, and does not require special care." True, but the OP was asking about the care and storage of $10,000 stamps.

I have a set of Zepps that I never did mount. They are still on the dealer card they came in and not decided how to mount.

I think the crew lets down a little set of metal steps from the side.