What Is The Greatest Need That Stamp Collectors Have?

Dennison hinges can be reused unless the whole hinge is sopped. I do it all the time.

For small stamps, you can cut the hinge in half and use only 1 hinge for 2 stamps.

It is also much quicker to use hinges than mounts and also less problems with box sizes on pages.

Time....60 years about half way done need another 60 to finish.

For me..it's to admit that I have enough stamps to keep me busy and entertained for a long time..and I don't really need to buy anymore.

Hello Graphis;

And; the organizing part of this site is great for that.
PS. Add one more number to your posts soon as you can!

They also have an annoying habit of changing numbers for recent stamps. I primarily use Scott, of course, but I often obtain new issues that Scott hasn't listed yet, even in the Linn's updates. I'll put them on a Vario page with the Stampworld number until Scott assigns numbers. Sometimes I go back to add stamps and find that Stampworld has completely changed the numbers and I can't figure out what's supposed to go where. I assume they don't do this with older stamps, but I've noticed it a few times on very recent issues.

As for me:

New eyes

A lottery win

More time. Years more.

Louise411....ok...

Well-stocked sources of hard-to-find stamps.

Stamps...

The ability to search for a stamp across multiple platforms/web sites from a single point. For example, I want to be able to choose a U.S. Scott number 525 on a web page and see every copy possible listed from ebay, HipStamp, SAN, dealer websites, etc. It would be a lot of technical work, but well worth the effort when searching for just the right copy of a stamp for my collection.

Hello graphis

Beautiful!

And, about the interleaves mentioned to keep Vario from scratching. Having just gotten an older Supersafe stock book that uses hole punched wax paper, I am thinking that might work. I got my paper hole puncher for one dollar from the dollar store and I will try that. I have a few multi- colored interleaves that have been helpful in another way.

The usual: good eyesight, good lighting, room to spread out. My chihuahua is complaining I am consuming too much space already.

A simple guide matching stamps to the proper Scott/Printz mount to be used in various configs. Or at least knowing the WxH of stamps in mm.... A common database online for all stamps, but includes catalogue numbers (I know.... copyright issues). Then again cannot make it too efficient as half the fun is in the task of looking up stuff.

I am sure there is lots more.

Interesting.

Last time I checked, stamp collectors would suffer the same faith as non-collectors if deprived of things such as air, food, drink, and a place to dump the latter two.

Without them, the collector will be pining for the fjords.

What would help me, save time and save eyesight, would be an iPhone app that I could take a picture of a stamp and it would identify it. Top level determine the country and catalog number, and then down to the flyspeck type varieties that are so hard to identify manually. And then plating. Though it would eliminate part of the fun and challenge of identifying things by hand. An app wouldn't prevent doing things yourself but would sure save a lot of time (like with a pile of 2 cent Washington Franklin offsets).

This has been discussed for over a decade (for example see this thread https://goscf.com/t/42279 ) but we are not that much further down the road.

Significant challenges to a stamp ID app;
- black/white used stamps (cancels cannot be differentiated from design)
- black overprints, black stamp designs, and black cancels can be problematic
- digital image cannot ID watermarks
- digital images cannot ID paper types
- digital images are dicey (at best) with stamp colors
Don