Price Of Palo Hingless Album

Morning!

I am planning to buy an Palo Hingeless Album for a certain period. I noticed the difference in price between a hingeless album and regular pages is around 66%. is it worth it? or its better to purchase the regular pages then mount the stamps. what did you purchase?

Thank you

I bought the Palo Berlin Hingeless Album on ebay for about $200.00 a few months ago, and am very happy with it. I think you might be able to save a few bucks if you mount them yourself, but for me just the sizing alone, and etc. makes that problematic.

These are quality albums, with slipcase, and are sturdy, if a bit odd sized. I would consider one for any serious collection I was working on, for the nice look and functionality.

John

Which country did you have in mind? Bear in mind that, in the main, Palo albums are souped-up versions of Steiner. If you're going to fill the album with unmounted mint material, it's probably worth springing for hingeless, rather than cutting mounts yourself. If mounted mint or used, plain pages may make more sense.

I'm looking at the mystic American heirloom jungle less volume one. Does Palo offer a competition get product for the first US stamps? Have others shopped around for US hingeless albums recently and could share? Thanks fam!

You could start here

https://goscf.com/t/17127&SearchTer...ew,of,albums

Pascoe,

What does "I'm looking at the mystic American heirloom jungle less volume one" mean? I don't understand what You are asking.

Jack Kelley

I wonder if he meant 'hinge less'?

I do that stuff sometimes, too.

Oh, I see it now. Confusing. In that case, I would recommend hingeless to Pascoe. I have the "needs hinges" version and spent a fortune buying Showgard mounts for them. Would go with hingeless if I wasd to start over. I have Davo Hingeless for my UK collection and like them a lot. Easy Peasy.

Jack Kelley

Hingeless is definitely more expensive, but I always ask myself: Which would I rather spend more time with:

1. Stamps

2. Printing pages, sizing and cutting mounts, swearing, miscutting, overdampening, and more swearing

Pretty clear choice to me. Now if you plan to just hinge everything rather than using mounts, then that's a different equation (still lots of swearing though).

All good points many thanks. Yes, I meant hingeless earlier. 99% of my posts are from my mobile device, and SCF does not optimize all that well when I am composing a post.

GeoffHa, I am planning to mount my Colombian collection (MNH) post 1940. No other source offers page albums for Colombia.

I have a Scott Colombia album (which causes me endless frustration because of the Scott numberng system), but they may no longer be in print. Personally, I'd opt for quadrille pages, rather than an expensive, ready-printed album, but that's just my preference.

Steiner pages can be purchased online printed on Minkus-sized, Scott Specialty-sized, or 8.5 x 11" sized paper. Do a search. You end up with "Palo" pages to a large extent for much less, and if you don't like the small 8.5 x 11 size pages (too much like a school kid's notebook for my taste, and I dislike three ring binders) you can still use Steiner's pages. And those pages, in the larger sizes, can be either three hole punched or rectangular hole punched to fit Scott's more classic 2-post binders.

Of course, you can also buy a large format printer and print them yourself on larger sized paper, though you couldn't hole punch them yourself in any way that I know to fit the rectangular holed Scott binders. So you'd only be able to use the three ring Scott (or other three hole) binders. Or punch them to fit European 22-hole binders -- if you can find a 22 hole punch. They do exist. So many choices it boggles the mind!