I ordered a book about collecting commemorative medals and got an unexpected collection of stamps.
The postage was £2.80 for the book some of the stamps are 30 and 40p online now as collector items.
The book was secondhand priced 98p so I feel like I got a good deal out of it.
Guess I'll have to buy a stamp album now......and tweezers...........and stamp hinges!!!!!
I can't for the life of me remember what they are called, but I've used a type of sleeve for stamps. They have black backs and a clear front. You attach one half of the back to a page and then just sort of put the stamp in and flip the other half behind it.
***Found them! They are called Showgard Mounts.
"What we are is not as important as what we aren't"
yeah Hawid make those mounts too. You can get indiviual mounts or big strips you cut to size. I didn't like those very much though. The Hagners were much better.
Hagners don't either. They're made of completely chemically inert material so won't discolour stamps like the stamp hinges do. I had a ton of pages to show off my collection of commonwealth George V portrait stamps. They looked beautiful.
Yeah, Hagners look quite striking once they're filled, they have the added bonus that you can slip pieces of paper with titles and information into the strips
