Those Scott brand stock sheets are excellent, but if you want a slightly less-expensive or different method, you can just use blank Scott pages and mount the postcards and covers on them. Finding the right mounting method may take some experimentation.
I first tried photo corners which have been a mainstay of collectors for decades, but they really don't hold covers very well.
You could also use large size stamp mounts. They work fine, but they aren't cheap, that's for sure.
Or use clear mounting corners which I've found work best. A number of dealers sell them including Scott, Subway Stamp Shop, and others. The ones I use are "archival" and supposedly harmless to whatever they are used to hold.
I've also played around with (horror of horrors!) double-sided mounting tape (Scotch makes some that works well), mounting squares designed for photos, rubber cement, and others. These all actually work really well and are not expensive. So far, they seem to hold well over time, but the question, as always, is are they archival, non-acidic, and non-harmful? I'll tell you in 50 years, but so far I've seen no problems on the few things I've mounted with such products.
I also recall that many years ago, photo albums and other albums that held large pieces like covers could be had with diagonal slits in them which allowed the corners of the cover or photo to be slipped into the slits with no adhesive and no additional materials needed. I suppose those are long gone now, but I always thought that was clever. |
Posted 02/28/2022 3:35 pm
