What do u keep your stamps in??

May 25, 2007 4:10pm CST
Hi everybody, I have been collecting now for over 22 years, with over 80000 stamps ww, with 16 albums/stockbooks which holds only a fraction of my collection. The problem is that we dont have a single stamp shop in my city of 1.6 million people. Where to find those loose leave stock pages, when we dont have a credit card system here, so cannot use Ebay. Any suggestions please????
2 responses
@nrnotrare (631)
• United States
26 May 07
Hello sardar.... I have a few ideas, please check your mylot messages. Tom
8 Jun 07
Hi Tom, I got your email messages, thanks , but there is some problem with my IDs, could not reply to you. Your suggestion of using album pages and Hinges is fine but I wanted to move forward, but it looks like I have to use this method again. By the how much does a packet of 1000 pealable hinges cost in your area? Khalid
• United States
9 Jun 07
Hello Kahlid.... I have news for you my friend........ I have had contact with a number of different collector/dealer friends and I have more than 120 of the stock pages you wanted on the way to me, and I have found another source if you want more. I will recalculate the shipping when I can get a weight for the items I ordered with them. You will not be paying shipping fees for my items. Packets of 1000 hinges are generally under $3.00...I can sometimes find them for $10.00 for 5 packets plus shipping. I can get very good quality blank white pages, usually about $7.00 for 500 pages. If you don't have a punch to make them fit a 3-ring binder I do, so I can pre-punch them for you. I was wondering about what you said about the size of your city and the fact that there is no stamp store. Do you know many other collectors ?? Any Idea how many collectors there are there in your area ?? My guess would be that they also cannot find supplies they need. How would you feel about you and I creating our own little mail order business to help get other collectors in your city the supplies they need. With no other source of stamp supplies in your area we could create a nice little business for ourselves. Granted, we will not get rich, but it would give us both a little extra money and we would be helping other collectors. Think about it for a while, talk to a few friends, let me know what you think. Tom tteague@beatricene.com
@rvshenoy (341)
• India
22 Jul 07
i keep my used stamps in covers, and some between the pages of books. Mint stamps store in stockbooks.