What Are Safe Adhesives For A Stamp Album?

I'll apologize in advance for a possible redundancy as I seem to recall a recent similar post, but can't now find it.

I'm in the process of consolidating my random and variedly stored collection into a used Harris Citation album I recently acquired, which is 2 post and accommodates a 9" x 12" page with a double sided format.

I have some Irish and Vatican City stamps already mounted on rather attractive single sided printed album pages … I don't remember where I acquired these, the pages measure 8-15/16" wide by 11-7/16" high and their 3-hole punch fits a standard U.S. 3-ring binder. Either they are someone's custom page design or perhaps a European album format?

There are to me three choices here:
1. Remove the stamps from their current pages and remount them … that is a NO GO for me, I'm just mentioning it as it is an "option".
2. The page sizes are "really close" to the Harris 9" x 12" format and I could easily punch two new holes on the left margin to fit them on the two posts of the Harris Citation album.
3. I'm leaning toward adhering these pages onto both sides of 9" x 12" card stock, using an adhesive labeled as "photo safe". The advantage would be having a page that is double sided and fits exactly into my album.

I'm wondering what the collective wisdom of the forum thinks? Should I go with option #2 (which would be easiest)? If I proceed with option #3 are there suggestions as to how to best adhere the existing album pages onto the card stock?

Thank you.

Sticking on a further sheet of card - for which any glue-stick would do the job - would be likely to look messy. Given they're a near-perfect fit, I'd punch new holes and put them straight into the album (unlikely to be European pages, as three-ring binders aren't used in Europe - unless someone previously used a US hole-punch on them).

Option #2 seems to be the only choice you are giving yourself.

If you have to ask about option #3 then I am assuming you are not familiar with the problems or technique about remounting paper on paper/card. If you are not practiced at this, you will ruin at least a few of the album pages if not the stamps on them. I don't think trying to make double-sided pages is worthwhile, either. In short, don't even consider #3.

It would be useful to show us what one of these pages look like.

Personally, I would never want a collection of stamps on double-sided paper pages. Whether the stamps are hinged, or in mounts, you will get "combat" and damage among stamps on opposing pages.

Then there is the issue of overly thick pages, especially if you add interleaving to eliminate the damage of stamps facing stamps.

The bulk of my remaining collections are on double sided pages, but with glassine interleaving pages. Easy solution to a binder getting too full due to interleaving: get another binder.

Item #2 is a good solution. I've added Scott National album pages into my Scott International Big Blue binders by punching in more holes on the side and trimming the pages down.

Solution #3 has very bad potential, as others have pointed out. I bought a world wide collection in about 12 Big Blue International binders back in the late 1980s. The prior owner had glued pages together all throughout the collection. Have no idea what adhesive was used. But the adhesive stains from aging were very bad and many stamps were ruined. Still, I was able to get a lot of stamps out of that collection to add into what was then a world wide collection through 1965 (Parts I through V of the Big Blue).

My appreciation for the sage wisdom of the forum preventing me from doing something stupid (i.e. my option 3).

I punched the pages to fit the two post format and they fit nicely in the album, a picture of a page is below.

I have no particular bias toward single side or double side album pages but I do like consistency. My U.S. collection is in Harris Liberty albums which have single sided pages and I'll keep that format there. I have purchased three used Harris WW albums (Ambassador, Statesman, Citation) which have double sided pages … the non U.S. collection is currently going into the Citation. All three albums came with stamps in them and with the Ambassador and Statesman I quickly discovered the issue with having stamps on facing pages. The Citation already had interleaving, I don't know if that was standard with the Citation or if the previous owner added them. I was happy to find interleaving already cut and punched for Harris albums.

More sage wisdom from the forum:

Those are Scott Specialty pages.

Thank you Stamps1962.