Is This A Good Selection For A Stamp Album?

So I have a collection I've partly inherited from a range of people and partly bought myself. It's currently in envelopes and stockbooks, so I'd like to transfer it to an album using these sheets: https://www.gbstampalbums.co.uk/

Are these pieces of equipment good for this? I realise hinges aren't the best option, but I'm on a budget so mounts are too much. Plus, this is more for personal enjoyment rather than keeping value of stamps.

Binder: https://springbackbinders.com/shop/canvas-binders/

Acid free, 120gsm paper: https://www.staples.co.uk/office-st...no&gbrtmp=no

Hinges: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14548746...3&adtype=pla

Any feedback on these would be appreciated!

The album pages are quite basic but fine.

I do not know what the inherited collection looks like, but UK stamps have many varieties and the pages provide no spaces for most. Still, you can add blank pages for yout varieties.

Thanks. Do you know of any better GB sheets? These were the only ones I could find.

No, no free ones. These look like SG Collect GB level. I see some odd thinks like the colour brown where the SG catalogue lists Venetian red, but the pages are okay. If you have many Penny Reds or other stamps with different plate numbers, the spaces are not there.

Edit: scrolling down, there also are SG GB Concise pages. That is a more widely collected level. But he includes every watermark and overprint listed. That is a bit of an overkill for the fast majority of collectors.

You will find some free GB album pages here, including albums based on the "Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Specialised Catalogue". The latter may, however, be more detailed than what you need:

https://www.thestampweb.local/album...ee-downloads

One advantage of these albums is that they can be customised using the free AlbumEasy software.

Clive

What you've picked out looks fine. I like springbacks, but the pages won't lie flat - a reasonably solid 4-ring binder might make life easier for you.

Experienced collectors are often too quick to judge someone's beginning choices in collecting maybe too critically, but your choices seem perfectly fine to me. They're a lot better than the sad albums I began with years ago. I imagine those binders will work just fine, but be aware there are some springback binders made especially for stamp albums you might like even more if you browse around a bit. Dauwalder's stamp shop may have some. They're in Salisbury -- which I imagine you may have heard of. I think there's some kind of church there.

Those pages look really nice! I like them a lot. Of course they're not designed for "varieties" of color or anything else, but who starts with those? They're for the basic collection nearly all collectors begin with but they look a lot better than most beginner albums I've seen. And it's easy as pie to add blank pages for any extras you do acquire.

Be careful with the paper which you want to be at least twice as heavy as printer paper but not to the point that it's cardboard. Once you use it and mount lots of stamps on it, there's no turning back. I'm not sure how heavy 120 gsm is. Something to do with metric measurements which we don't understand, I imagine. I've used 60# U.S. "cover stock" paper a few times and been very happy with it -- not too heavy, not too flimsy.

Have fun with that collection!

I was initially taken by Dauwalder's springback albums, which are made by Lighthouse. Experience from actual use has changed my opinion. They are more awkward to use than any springback I've worked with - the spring mechanism is just too tight and it's difficult to look through them, let alone get them to lie semi-flat.

Edit to add that these and other standard-size UK springback stamp albums are designed to take album leaves measuring 282mm x 251mm, not A4.

I use 104 gsm, about 5.4 mils, so 120 gsm thicker than I use. 24# paper is around 90 gsm.