Post by mourningdoves on Oct 12, 2018 20:57:10 GMT -5
I'm about ready to start organizing my town-and-date postmarks for certain areas, and I'd like to collect some tips on how to do this.
The situation is thus. I've noticed that, for instance, otherwise cheap mixtures from Poland are loaded with town/city postmarks. But I can't just go out and compile a list of every post office in Poland that might have had a named cancellation in its name; the research would be immense, and I'll probably never get most of them anyway. But I'd like to start arranging them in more or less alphabetical order (or alphabetical within voivodes or within some other subdivision; I haven't decided yet) and be able to move them relatively easily if my collection outgrows the allotted space. That pretty much rules out paper and hinges.
Varios are an obvious choice, but that would get expensive fairly quickly.
Cardboard stock pages aren't something I'd consider because the cardboard "pockets" (I know there's a better word but I don't know what it is) would cover up most of the postmark.
There are stock pages that have clear plastic "pockets" (there's that word again!) and black backing paper. Anybody who has bought a large lot at auction or on eBay or probably even at a stamp show knows what I'm talking about. But I worry that the black backing paper would eventually break down and/or damage the contents. Some of that material looks pretty sketchy if you ask me. Is this a valid concern? Are there "good" and "avoid" manufacturers/brand names for these types?
There are stock books. I have a couple from Leuchtthurm/Lighthouse, but they can be pricey, too. Ideally, I'd like more-or-less permanent individual pages that I can put into my own binders. But if there are good clear stock books around that maybe are less tightly bound, and less expensive, than Leuchtthurm's, I'd like to know about them.
Any and all suggestions will be gratefully received and considered.
The situation is thus. I've noticed that, for instance, otherwise cheap mixtures from Poland are loaded with town/city postmarks. But I can't just go out and compile a list of every post office in Poland that might have had a named cancellation in its name; the research would be immense, and I'll probably never get most of them anyway. But I'd like to start arranging them in more or less alphabetical order (or alphabetical within voivodes or within some other subdivision; I haven't decided yet) and be able to move them relatively easily if my collection outgrows the allotted space. That pretty much rules out paper and hinges.
Varios are an obvious choice, but that would get expensive fairly quickly.
Cardboard stock pages aren't something I'd consider because the cardboard "pockets" (I know there's a better word but I don't know what it is) would cover up most of the postmark.
There are stock pages that have clear plastic "pockets" (there's that word again!) and black backing paper. Anybody who has bought a large lot at auction or on eBay or probably even at a stamp show knows what I'm talking about. But I worry that the black backing paper would eventually break down and/or damage the contents. Some of that material looks pretty sketchy if you ask me. Is this a valid concern? Are there "good" and "avoid" manufacturers/brand names for these types?
There are stock books. I have a couple from Leuchtthurm/Lighthouse, but they can be pricey, too. Ideally, I'd like more-or-less permanent individual pages that I can put into my own binders. But if there are good clear stock books around that maybe are less tightly bound, and less expensive, than Leuchtthurm's, I'd like to know about them.
Any and all suggestions will be gratefully received and considered.
Stamps - the bear necessities of life.
. I'll have to research the stock pages. It's not always easy to get information about the composition of philatelic supplies, but most companies that make acid-free products usually brag about them. I wonder if "acid-free" actually has a legal definition, or if it's one of those terms like "documented" or "natural" that can mean a lot of things. Aww, something else to research...