Mounting Stamps

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Kirk:

I use hinges for used, black mounts for mint. I wish they had gray mounts though.

Steve:

I can't quite make out the brand name on the dispenser -- could you give us more information about brand, source, cost, etc?

KirkS, here is a link...

http://www.blueedgecrafts.com.au/sh...r-23457.html

I normally buy them in the department store in the photo section.

Steve

but steve these are stamps not horses why do you need to mount them ?

:)

Thanks Steve.

I can't find the exact same thing here in USA, but I think this is closest:
http://www.xyron.com/enUS/Products/...ng_Tape.html

I'm surprised that they are not available in the U.S.
Try your local photo shop, they may have an equivalent.

Steve

I read on another site recently that some folks fix their mounts to the page with double-click repositionable acid-free craft tape. No moisture, easily moveable without damaging the mount or the page. Anyone here do that?

"I read on another site recently that some folks fix their mounts to the page with double-click repositionable acid-free craft tape"

If you start with a a set of pages which fill a binder and add stamps to every pages, you'll need two binders. Add show-guard mounts, and you'll need three binders. Add a piece of tape between the mount and the page and you'll be close to four binders.

For hinge users, what kind of hinges do you use? I used hinges back in the early sixties. Worked fine. Then I quit the hobby. About six years ago, I took it up again. Bought hinges from Mystic. I could not get them to work. The stamp would often fall off the page, and the hinge, when it did stick, stuck too well. I couldn't peel if off, as I could with the hinges I used in the sixties.

So I use mounts. I know, cheap stamps in expensive mounts. But they do stay put. And they're not all that expensive if you get them from Mystic as strips and cut them yourself.

Don

Just use standard hinges from Prinz, which I then bisect unless the stamps are large. Then barely dampen the hinge. Haven't had problems with stamps falling from the page.

For those who scoff at hinges and will only use mounts - I'm curious - how full are your albums? I inherited mystic's American Heirloom collection from my father, four volumes of US stamps going back to the 1800s.. all stamps in mounts from mystic stamps... Almost every page of all four albums are full. An amazing collection. One big problem. The albums bulge warp and ripple due to the added thickness of the mounts and the relative thinness of the areas of the bulk of pages in the albums with no stamps (the edges of the pages)

In short, the albums look like inconsistently full, bulging hot-pockets. I'm sorry Dad, but it's the truth.

I remember in the mid 90s when he started this endeavor and how excited he was to be moving on from used stamps and hinges (his regent ww 4 album collection cover to cover filled with used stamps of his and his father/gfather) to mounts - the "ONLY" way. ala "no hinges for my beautiful stamps"

... hahaha. ok.

Well.. sounds great, mounts look excellent for the most part and of course preserve the condition of the gum - but one thing that he never took into consideration was the additional thickness which mounts add to the album per stamp. This problem compounds itself exponentially for every page added to the album full of mint mounted stamps. Furthermore the position of each stamp on each page is never the same so you're left with wavy uneven warped pages, in some cases the corners of the pages when the album is closed is about 3 inches thick, the middle of the album is about 6 inches thick.

The pages are HEAVY all in all given the varying page thicknesses from stamps+mounts and the resulting warping that occurs to pages in the entire volume of fully populated pages with mint mounted stamps... well.. the albums are actually not quite as handsome as you might expect or hope - unlike a hinged album - the more you fill a mounted album in my experience the uglier the collection gets.

Now I'm not saying hinge>mounts for US mint stamps, quite the contrary.. but be careful how you go about this - I'm curious what folks might do to get around this issue I've described. Page spacers?? But the problem is the inconsistency of the album thickness which I can't imagine can be rectified by inserting spacers of consistent thickness. Almost requires custom cardboard or some sort of custom inserts made with varying thicknesses to compensate for the thickness added by the mounts.

I've always hinged my WW stamps, Since I inherited my dad's collection I've been storing mint stamps in lighthouse stockbooks w/ slipcover.
Still makes me nervous as I had to soak a few of my dad's stockbooks to get a bunch of old rare mint german and WW stamps out of them due to the humid Illinois summers they endured (no matter how many dehumidifiers he had running in his hobby room)!

Sorry for the meandering post .. I've been looking for the right thread to pose these question after being away from collecting for a good 25 years.
Like someone (Quanah) said on the first page of this thread - this IS a very frustrating topic, and it kept me away from returning to collecting for a while actually since modern hinges are such complete garbage. . . .

For stamps that I hinge I use only old, vintage Dennison hinges. I purchased a case (15 packs) of them about 10 years ago; were not cheap ($12.00 pack) but I have enough to last a while. These are the 1950s era hinges; the light green, pre-folded hinges in the red, white and dark blue packaging.
Don

http://www.stampsmarter.com/learnin...ennison.html

For my stamps (both mint and used) I am using clear mounts of Lighthouse, are excellent!. For this I purchased packages of 500 grms.

Regards!
Rodolfo

Seeing that modern stamp hinges absolutely suck (why are they even sold?), and i'm not about to spend ~$20 per pack of hinges from the 50s-60s (absolute insanity, IMO) I'm very interested in investigating any other NON-LICK acid-free archival double stick tape... similar to those briefly mentioned earlier in this thread...

it's 2017. Someone must have invented an archival quality acid-free adhesive that's better than licking animal byproduct from over a half century ago.

I'm interested to hear more from these folks below or possibly any others who might have found a working solution that doesn't damage their stamps, break the bank yet replace the quality of stamp hinges used in yesteryears (dennison, fold-O-Hinge) etc.


user: khi
I actually use tape (no kidding!). It's the revised formulation of a special 3M removable tape.
Specifics please! What is it called? URL?

User: Triggersmob
acid free after soluble gum, photo mounts
They are acid free, water soluble gum, photo mounts.
http://www.blueedgecrafts.com.au
Dead link :( any update Triggersmob?

User: kirks
I can't find the exact same thing here in USA, but I think this is closest:
http://www.xyron.com/enUS/Products/...ng_Tape.html
also a dead/incomplete URL.. any update, Kirks?

Finally ... who is this company "DENNISEN" and what is this "the original hinge" claim? How are they still in business for such a blatant scam? Class action law suit, anyone? I guess stamp collectors as a whole tend to be a bit passive? weird.