Hingeless Stamp Album. Worth it?

Really nice looking album.
I do not have or use hingeless stamp album.

 

I used the same kind of album for my Dutch collection. I stopped it because of the high costs for the new pages every year. Howerever it workd very well and looks very professional

 

I have seen you once a day collection. Do you need more US stamps with clearly readable dates?? If so please reply, I will look through my albums for you.

 

What is the different between a hinged and hingeless stamp?

 

A regular paper page printed with outline box for a stamp requires a stamp hinge or a stamp mount that has to be 'moistened" to become sticky and stick to the album page. This damages any gum that is on the stamp, and may cause the stamp to be damaged if the stamp has to be removed later. Stamp mounts are safer, but also require that one is careful, and you have to have the correct size on hand for each stamp, but you can place them as you wish. So this would be a 'hinged' stamp, although with a mount , there is no hinge.

Hingeless albums have the holder already in place on the printed page, so the stamp in carefully inserted with no moisture or hinge coming in contact. Different methods of manufacturing, so some differences in appearance. Safer for high end collections, especially at auctions

I do not use them as they are expensive, and doesn't allow me to put varieties of the stamp on the same page by my arrangement. Also if you are just beginning or have a limited spending, you will be staring at a lot of empty mounts , like empty picture frames are more annoying than a blank wall.

http://www.stamp-collecting-resource.com/stamp-albums.html

 

I've been a collector over 50 years and have tried Lindner Hingeless and other similar type albums. I ultimately settled for Mystics Heirloom Albums. I have my collection in 10 albums as I've added page protectors to each page. To allow for my own expansion, I reproduced a blank page and formated the same style outline as the other pages, added text in the same font, size etc. It's worked well for me and that way I determine what I want to add which is in a different format than what Mystic has. Cost wise too, I keep all the new stamp issues in a stock book and then I purchase a whole new set @ 39.95 every 8-10 years and that way I've got all the matching albums and keep it up to date without purchasing supplments every year.

 

Hope you will receive it sooner.
Looking forward for your review.

 

I have several hinge less versions of albums. I like the US Scott Platinum version that is no longer in print. It has a great padded cover. The stamps do tend to slide in the v mounts. I also have US Lindner pages, also great padded cover. They are much deeper slots and allow for excess margins on the stamps. Sometimes their choice of which stamps to include I a year set are questionable. Although they are expensive to buy new they are frequently available used in good condition at stamps show. I just passed on a great set of Pavos? albums plus stamps at a recent show for $300 that covered all US revenues. Great set of albums but I don't have enough revenues. My standard is always Scott and I put in my own clear mounts. The clear mounts are getting hard to find in dealer excess lots at shows by the way. I have picked up several Mystic albums for the stamps and in general I am not happy with them. They do have good detail about each issue but they just don't look great on the shelf the way the others do.

 

Those pages look good and nice that it was not that bad at all with the quality of the binder.

 

I primarily use Mystic for all of my albums. I have numerous sets of both the Heritage and Heirloom sets, though neither of them hingeless. As mentioned in another post, I also have the Soviet Union collection they put out some years ago in a custom 3-ring flat binder set. Plus one for Russia and I am probably going to get the Canada set as well.

Yes, the binders are no better (for the most part) than standard D-ring binders but 1) they hold the pages well, 2) they DO lay flat, 3) they are a shelf item at Mystic in case you need to expand past the albums you have, and 4) all of the Mystic lines are standard with each other so if you have shelves with multiple albums, they make a nice look.

As for a comment made re: only collecting what they show pics for - I believe they sell blank paper as well so that you can create/customize your own pages for the extras and varieties that frequently come up. I am experimenting with that idea in mind as I collect plateblocks + other mults as well so I need more than the standard block at times.

As for the need for a number of different size mounts: I get the bulk versions and cut them to size... again, because I like to do topicals on one or two pages and not all stamps from all countries are sized standard.

And I know they have stock pages for the airmails (not sure about hingeless) as I have them in my Heirlooms and Heritage both. You can always buy the clear mounts separately as well, which is what the hingeless albums have already installed.

 

Thanks for the link... another resource that will be used.

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