Best Way To Store Stamps Waiting To Be Put In Albums.

What is the best way to store stamps waiting to be added to albums? Other than stock books. Glassines or 102A cards?

Well, you answered your own question. Those are the three best options. You can always put them in an old cigar box ?


Peter

Thank you Peter. I just wondered which way is preferred.
How about old shoe boxes?

See also this thread that shows a few examples of sorting bins that people use.
https://goscf.com/t/86447

Thank you for the responses. I'm getting ready to move about 25,000 to 30,000 stamps into my Reproduction Big Brown albums. It's going to be quite an adventure. I have Scott Internationals to volume 13. In need of a volume 12 & 14. Have mounted 46,000+ in them that were from a 50 year accumulation of albums, boxes, bags and what ever else they were in. That took a number of years and am not done with that project yet. Too many stamps and not enough time (years).

This is an interesting question--I am also in the middle of a big rehinging/remounting project although only through volume 5 of Scott International. Personally I have been using an option not mentioned, which is counter pages. However, I decided it is not ideal, mainly because they are somewhat difficult to store. I've just been putting them in shoeboxes. But I've decided to switch to glassines and just put in an order for some red boxes and a big pack of #4 glassines.

I'm interested in further discussion of best practices for transferring material between albums. Anybody have any tips and tricks to share? It does seem pretty daunting and overwhelming.

I was just kidding when I mentioned a cigar box. You are going to damage stamps if throwing them loosely in any sort of box.


Peter

Stock-book or stock-pages are the best option. Your duplicates are then ready to be moved on once you've pulled out your "keep" copy.

I use 102 cards mainly because I collect in complete sets and for the time it would take me to put all those stamps in stock books, it's way more efficient to use the 102 cards. Eventually, when time allows, I will transfer everything into Vario pages.

Peter

I was just kidding about the shoe boxes too. Although, I have many stamps sorted by country and years stored in glassines in shoe boxes.

Depends on what you have. For gummed stamps, I want to make sure they are not stored in anything that might cause the gum to adhere to anything. I don't collect used/un-gummed stamps per se, but don't really care if those are just dropped in to a glassine.

Of course in South Florida in the summer, if the power were to go out for a while the humidity could get pretty bad rather quickly.

I wonder where you would get enough good hinges and what that would set you back. Mounts would be even worse....

I think with any hinge, if you do something like cut them in half and have a simple system to moisten them light, e.g. a tooth pick, you could prevent things when peeling the hinges off in the future. There are still plenty of relatively inexpensive hinges out there, no?

I use Vario pages for stamps waiting for an album space.

Fortunately, I accumulated enough packs of good old hinges before the price got so.high. I cut them in half for smaller stamps,Ones that I mounted in years past can be removed and reuse the hinges as I did not over wet them. Some stamps from other albums have reusable hinges to the other extreme of being stuck down. Some are even hinged with scotch tape or in the glue strip photo albums, both of which have caused them to be worthless.

Mint never hinged and any valuable stamps still need mounts not hinges.