Collecting - Stamp Albums
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Stamp albums provide stamp collectors with a comfortable way to keep the stamps safe, organize their collections and display the stamps in a nice manner. For identification of stamps illustrated albums are preferable.
Before buying a stamp album there are some precious pieces of advice stamp collectors should consider. There are to major kinds of stamp albums - standard and without hinges. If you stop your choice at a standard album, you will have to hinge each stamp to the proper page in the album. Albums without hinges offer the opportunity to place the stamp into the page with no hinging necessary. Serious collectors usually prefer hinge-less albums.
Many albums contain fixed pages that are impossible to move or put in a new order. Such albums are in high demand among beginning collectors. Albums featuring movable pages are created in a loose-leaf style and their flexibility represents the choice of the more knowledgeable collectors. Such albums provide a chance to change the order or add pages if it is required.
It is better not to buy albums for placing stamps on the front and back of each page to avoid the stamps tangling together on opposite sides of the page.
The quality of albums also depends on having enough space for the stamps. A high-quality album needs strong binding with thick pages produced from qualitative acid-free paper.
Stamps should never be mounted in an album with the help of ordinary glue or scotch tape not to cut down the price of your stamp to zero. Moreover, the collector will not be able to shift the stamp from the album later without impairing the stamp.
The early history was marked by the development of stamp hinges to affix stamps firmly to album pages without damaging the face side of the stamp.
Stamp hinges represent small, folded, rectangular pieces produced from glassine or paper covered with gum. They are not expensive at all.
First, you should wet a little the shorter flap of the hinge with some water with a small paint brush. Then the stamp should be placed face down and the wet end of the hinge should be stuck to the back of the stamp. The hinge should be attached as close to the top of the stamp as possible, but not above the top.
The next step is to wet the longer flap of the hinge a little also using a small paint brush. The stamp should be placed carefully in the album and pressed down to secure it, using a clean piece of paper across the stamp not to stain it. When the stamp has dried, it should be peeled off the album with no problem with a pair of stamp tongs not to damage the stamp.
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