Spanish Colonies To Hinge Or To Mount

Thank you. In this case there is not a spec of space to go higher or lower in a mount. This area also seems to be sold almost entirely in sets and in the later issues MNH.

I'm not surprised to hear that you've seen a price difference. My point was that Scott's catalogue value (CV) for such stamps is based on MNH. It isn't a premium to CV for MNH; it's a hit to CV for MH.

It is one way of putting it. I look at it as Cjd appears to do. For Great Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands, catalogue prices are for unmounted mint and used only from 1940 onwards. Unused hinged stamps are steeply discounted from unmounted mint.

Pre-1940 listings used to be for unused hinged and used only. Increasingly - and quite contrary to what Floortrader claims - these catalogues add columns for unmounted mint stamps for all 20th century listings. The Stanley Gibbons Concise - for quite some time - includes unmounted mint prices from the 1887 'Jubilee' stamps onwards.

The mark-up for classic unmounted mint stamps is increasing. They, however, are getting very rare.

Another solo collection possibility. Schuyler Rumsey $2,000 minimum 15% seller commission. They will even break up in smaller lots as will Cherrystone. Kelleher not likely.

"I've seen some collections for sale where the hinged stamps are placed in the mounts upside down."

I've seen it in rare occasions too.

"Instead of individually mounting stamps in the album that I have the original owner mounted the stamps in long strips such as 3-5 stamps across and the entire strip moistened. Looks good and seems to work just fine."

It does look nice, but it makes it really difficult for a perspective customer to examine the backs for hinging or not.

I am just about to start filling in the strips of mounts. I can see with just a little test that 4-5 stamps in a row with the curve of the two post album pages would be difficult. 3 a little easier. I will report back and decide if I will go to single mounts. Thanks for the heads up.

I mount everything in mounts (try to do stamps no additional harm).