Glad you had an “epiphany” about hinges. When done as intended they make collecting used stamps very affordable. And you are totally correct when you say that modern stamps SUCK. Modern hinges don’t hold a candle to the old Fold o Hinges; not to mention a bag of 1000 for $.15. You couldn’t give me the 7:36 modern hinges.
Nice Australian stamps! So cool you ran into Smokey:) I follow his channel as well. You guys are both so positive and I really appreciate the content u both put out. I am currently not happy with stamp hinges. It is a very humid, rainy day in WI, and all my Prinz hinges solidified into one big glob and hardened enough I could cut a cabbage in 1/2 with it. I seriously need to find some old Dennison hinges again. The Prinz ones not only arrived mostly stuck together...they are impossible to remove from an album page or a stamp without soaking them off. I don't know if these hinges I have would even be salvageable if I put them in a dehydrator. The best part about stamp hinges is that you know you're a real philatelist when you walk around with bare feet and find them stuck between your toes.
Over here, I don´t know any collectors who still are using hinges. The majority stores their stamps in stock books like Lighthouse or other brands. The reason is more than obvious: flexibility ! If you like to add some new items to your collection, stock books are the best way to stay flexible. But I know that collectors e.g. in the UK just used hinges for a longer time, so I even found sometimes mint material from the 1970s/80s with hinge traces. Just my two cents. 😉 Keep it up, and see you on the next one ! Greets from GER, U.
I think it also has to do with the size of your collection; I collect world through the present in a 20-volume album; it would be impossible to get enough stock books or stock pages for all of those stamps lol. However, I love using vario sheets for sub-collections not in the albums - it's so nice to simply insert a new vario sheet when more space is needed.
Nice Aussie collection.... hinges? Stock book? Printed Album? Collect what ya want, How ya want ! Getting Dennison stamp hinges on E-bay is expensive..... but even more expensive are stamp mounts..... I got really lucky - a friend was downsizing and gave me his stamp collection. Most of his stamps were CTO's (many of which I have given away, still a few to dispose of, as I despise CTO stamps, IMO, they are just stickers, not for any valid postal use....but anyway....) Among the stamp stuff I was given was one and a half boxes of unopened Dennison stamp hinges from the 70's.... which probably sets me up for for my stamp hinge needs for the rest of my life.... Fun that you met Smokey at that stamp show !
Hey Silk, great pick up. Just two of those stamps would have easily covered what you paid for this lot, in Australia. Would sell for many $100. in Aussie. Have not seen those stamp sheets before, very attractive... Cheers Peter...
I feel like if one uses hinges, one needs to use cover sheets, and then one is always turning two pages to see the stamps.... I'm considering going to clear mounts. I'll be making up my own album pages for a ship stamp collection, and am considering using a heavyweight card stock in pale blue, with the clear mounts. I'm kinda tired of the white pages and black mounts and, also, lighter-weight pages wrinkle. Because I plan to create a unique but attractive specialty album that I enjoy looking through frequently, I'm going to eschew the traditional means of storage and display. As one of the other commenters noted, I also want to be able to add stamps or switch things around without redoing an entire page, so hinges are out.
Nice Australian collection and that cover was amazing! I need to go through my early Australian stamps to figure out what watermark varieties I have. I accumulated a ton of the good hinges from box lots over the years - hinges for used stamps are really the only option when collecting the world using large double sided page albums like the older, thinner paper Scott Internationals or Minkus Globals; the albums would get very think if too many mounts are used. I don't buy mint on purpose and if I get them with other stuff I tend to put them in stock books or trade them for more used lol. I just went through a couple thousand stamps removed from various albums - only a couple stamps got damaged by removing the hinges and they were fairly common. When I use a hinge, I also moisten the absolute minimum of the hinge to stick it to the album; elephant tongue is definitely a thing! However, I can see hinges not being used for small collections where you can house your collection comfortably in a hingeless album or vario sheets.
I think hinges are not fantastic. I use only hawid mounts and stock books or separate pages. I also soak hinges away if possible to clean my collection. Of course there is nothing wrong to use hinges if one likes but I would never but hinge behing unhinged or mint stamp.
Hi Silk, thx again for a new video and your never ending enthusiasm. Only the hinges, you love them. But I really don't, most of the times stamps are damaged by them. When you buy stamps, hinged on a fair or by ebay its always a casino. Will they be nice or not. But maybe I'm terribly wrong. Can you do in your next video some info about how to save the stamps which have hinges?
In this video or the last I think you mention moving one world wide album. What album are you planning for world wide. I’m going to do the same, but printing my own pages with album easy.
I don't think you came out to strongly about the problems with hinges. To this day, I'm convinced that hinges were invented by coin collectors to mess up philatelists... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And now you have certificates touting “gem” or “jumbo” etc which somehow make 1950/1960/1970 mint US commemoratives with traditional catalog values of 25 cents somehow worth $75. 😂😂😂. At least for those foolish enough to buy. I like that Scott (my2015 edition) often has a disclaimer past a certain age of stamp that mint price is assuming hinged. As well it should.
You have ripped bandaid off 50 year old philatelic wound that still hurts. Imagine all the young collectors waking up one sunny morning in the early 1970s to find the "catalog value " their collections suddenly diminished by half. Why! Because they followed the long established practice of hinging their stamps into albums. Now, thanks to inflation, vultures looking for a hedge entered the philatelic market demanding their purchases be mint "never hinged". These newbies crushed the dream of a generation of established collectors who traded in their Scott catalogs for Beckett guides abandoning the educational and enlightening world of stamps for dream of riches to be had if only they could remember where mom put that box of baseball cards with the Honus Wagner rookie edition.😊
I can, indeed... my Grandfather's cataloging system was incredibly detailed, and I'm sure he thought it was worth more in the early 70s than he did the 80s. Same way I felt about my baseball cards in the 80s versus now. Still cherished collectibles though, and your point is well made about not focusing so much on MNH versus just enjoyment of the hobby
Brother, we are the same as I said I have a stamp collection to sell You said to send the photos to my email, we sent them too. What was the sender's name? If you have Instagram, let me send you a message
@@silkontheweb Brother, we are the same as I said I have a stamp collection to sell You said to send the photos to my email, we sent them too. What was the sender's name? If you have Instagram, let me send you a message
Hinges are okay, as long as they don't cause you to become unHINGED. (LOL). Thanks for sharing, bro.
Glad you had an “epiphany” about hinges. When done as intended they make collecting used stamps very affordable. And you are totally correct when you say that modern stamps SUCK. Modern hinges don’t hold a candle to the old Fold o Hinges; not to mention a bag of 1000 for $.15. You couldn’t give me the 7:36 modern hinges.
I absolutely love watching your videos. I’m learning a ton. Thank you very much for your efforts!
Nice Australian stamps! So cool you ran into Smokey:) I follow his channel as well. You guys are both so positive and I really appreciate the content u both put out. I am currently not happy with stamp hinges. It is a very humid, rainy day in WI, and all my Prinz hinges solidified into one big glob and hardened enough I could cut a cabbage in 1/2 with it. I seriously need to find some old Dennison hinges again. The Prinz ones not only arrived mostly stuck together...they are impossible to remove from an album page or a stamp without soaking them off. I don't know if these hinges I have would even be salvageable if I put them in a dehydrator. The best part about stamp hinges is that you know you're a real philatelist when you walk around with bare feet and find them stuck between your toes.
Ha! And I can relate, I found a bag of Prinz hinges when I was working on this video that had congealed into some sort of modern art sculpture
I have used Prinz hinges for years and so far very little trouble. With a ww stamp collection of over 80,000 plastic mounts are too costly.
Over here, I don´t know any collectors who still are using hinges. The majority stores their stamps in stock books like Lighthouse or other brands. The reason is more than obvious: flexibility ! If you like to add some new items to your collection, stock books are the best way to stay flexible. But I know that collectors e.g. in the UK just used hinges for a longer time, so I even found sometimes mint material from the 1970s/80s with hinge traces. Just my two cents. 😉 Keep it up, and see you on the next one ! Greets from GER, U.
I think it also has to do with the size of your collection; I collect world through the present in a 20-volume album; it would be impossible to get enough stock books or stock pages for all of those stamps lol. However, I love using vario sheets for sub-collections not in the albums - it's so nice to simply insert a new vario sheet when more space is needed.
Nice Aussie collection.... hinges? Stock book? Printed Album? Collect what ya want, How ya want ! Getting Dennison stamp hinges on E-bay is expensive..... but even more expensive are stamp mounts..... I got really lucky - a friend was downsizing and gave me his stamp collection. Most of his stamps were CTO's (many of which I have given away, still a few to dispose of, as I despise CTO stamps, IMO, they are just stickers, not for any valid postal use....but anyway....) Among the stamp stuff I was given was one and a half boxes of unopened Dennison stamp hinges from the 70's.... which probably sets me up for for my stamp hinge needs for the rest of my life.... Fun that you met Smokey at that stamp show !
Hey Silk, great pick up. Just two of those stamps would have easily covered what you paid for this lot, in Australia. Would sell for many $100. in Aussie. Have not seen those stamp sheets before, very attractive... Cheers Peter...
I feel like if one uses hinges, one needs to use cover sheets, and then one is always turning two pages to see the stamps.... I'm considering going to clear mounts. I'll be making up my own album pages for a ship stamp collection, and am considering using a heavyweight card stock in pale blue, with the clear mounts. I'm kinda tired of the white pages and black mounts and, also, lighter-weight pages wrinkle. Because I plan to create a unique but attractive specialty album that I enjoy looking through frequently, I'm going to eschew the traditional means of storage and display. As one of the other commenters noted, I also want to be able to add stamps or switch things around without redoing an entire page, so hinges are out.
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I’ll use hinges on low-value previously-hinged stamps
Nice Australian collection and that cover was amazing! I need to go through my early Australian stamps to figure out what watermark varieties I have. I accumulated a ton of the good hinges from box lots over the years - hinges for used stamps are really the only option when collecting the world using large double sided page albums like the older, thinner paper Scott Internationals or Minkus Globals; the albums would get very think if too many mounts are used. I don't buy mint on purpose and if I get them with other stuff I tend to put them in stock books or trade them for more used lol. I just went through a couple thousand stamps removed from various albums - only a couple stamps got damaged by removing the hinges and they were fairly common. When I use a hinge, I also moisten the absolute minimum of the hinge to stick it to the album; elephant tongue is definitely a thing! However, I can see hinges not being used for small collections where you can house your collection comfortably in a hingeless album or vario sheets.
I think hinges are not fantastic. I use only hawid mounts and stock books or separate pages. I also soak hinges away if possible to clean my collection.
Of course there is nothing wrong to use hinges if one likes but I would never but hinge behing unhinged or mint stamp.
Sorry...
But...
I like pages for binders....
Easy reorganization of the collection! :D
Watching a lady bookseller on Y tube. One day she had a kangaroo bust into her warehouse...!! LOved the casual 'roos on the highways...!!
Hi Silk, thx again for a new video and your never ending enthusiasm. Only the hinges, you love them. But I really don't, most of the times stamps are damaged by them. When you buy stamps, hinged on a fair or by ebay its always a casino. Will they be nice or not. But maybe I'm terribly wrong. Can you do in your next video some info about how to save the stamps which have hinges?
I wish i still had Dennison hinges but as many have said they are to expensive for the few packs that are left.
Did you go to the stamp fair in Greenhills Ohio?
In this video or the last I think you mention moving one world wide album. What album are you planning for world wide. I’m going to do the same, but printing my own pages with album easy.
Still working on the final plan... just when I think I have it figured out, I add a new detail to it...
I really hate hinges. I know they were used in the past in many cases, but today I see no use any longer for them. They have destroyed so many stamps.
Also, I think mixing hinges and mounts looks amateurish...
Did big-hinge get to you?
😆🤣😂
Can you remove a hinge or a you just further destroying the stamp?
I do not use hinges at all. Not even used stamps. Always look neater,.
Do you have enough Irish stamps to do a video? Collecting mostly USA but if an Irish stamps turns up 'll probably get it if it's affordable...!!
Yes! I'm looking forward to working on my Irish stamps
you got your money back on the BCOF. Seller must have been clueless. (...If folks want to put a 10 cent mount on a penny stamp, that's fine.)
Caught my eye too... very nice stamps
I don't think you came out to strongly about the problems with hinges.
To this day, I'm convinced that hinges were invented by coin collectors to mess up philatelists...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yea I hate to see someone tear a hinged stamp out of an album AND using their figures! I mean gosh they are made of paper! Very delicate hobby.
And now you have certificates touting “gem” or “jumbo” etc which somehow make 1950/1960/1970 mint US commemoratives with traditional catalog values of 25 cents somehow worth $75. 😂😂😂. At least for those foolish enough to buy. I like that Scott (my2015 edition) often has a disclaimer past a certain age of stamp that mint price is assuming hinged. As well it should.
You have ripped bandaid off 50 year old philatelic wound that still hurts. Imagine all the young collectors waking up one sunny morning in the early 1970s to find the "catalog value " their collections suddenly diminished by half. Why! Because they followed the long established practice of hinging their stamps into albums. Now, thanks to inflation, vultures looking for a hedge entered the philatelic market demanding their purchases be mint "never hinged". These newbies crushed the dream of a generation of established collectors who traded in their Scott catalogs for Beckett guides abandoning the educational and enlightening world of stamps for dream of riches to be had if only they could remember where mom put that box of baseball cards with the Honus Wagner rookie edition.😊
I can, indeed... my Grandfather's cataloging system was incredibly detailed, and I'm sure he thought it was worth more in the early 70s than he did the 80s. Same way I felt about my baseball cards in the 80s versus now. Still cherished collectibles though, and your point is well made about not focusing so much on MNH versus just enjoyment of the hobby
Hello, don't be tired, dear friend
Have you checked our email or has it not arrived yet?
I did, thanks, and responded... but you could also ask your question here. I bet if I don't know the answer, somebody else will
Brother, we are the same as I said I have a stamp collection to sell
You said to send the photos to my email, we sent them too.
What was the sender's name?
If you have Instagram, let me send you a message
@@silkontheweb
Brother, we are the same as I said I have a stamp collection to sell
You said to send the photos to my email, we sent them too.
What was the sender's name?
If you have Instagram, let me send you a message
Ah... best luck is Facebook Marketplace probably, or a group like that... I'm trying to focus my purchases on a few efforts
Please, please, please don't use hinges. They are terrible things. Definitely not needed nowadays
I really wouldn't worry about offending anyone by insulting stamp hinges. Lol, have we become so thin-skinned and "unhinged". ;-)