cover storage question

[swish513]

i am curious as to how others store their covers. tonight i purchased some showgard 2-pocket (126mm) stock pages. is this an acceptable method of storage for covers? or is there some other preferred way?

[kacyds]

I use both the 2 pocket and 3 pocket Vario/Showgard pages.

[Craig]

I have thousands of covers identified and stored in poly sleeves in photo boxes. I also have some slide-in cover albums that came with purchases. Otherwise, I try to mount them on pages using large corner mounts when it's appropriate for a certain collection.

[MikeC99]

I also use the 2 part Vario pages, poly sleeves and photo corner mounts. Make sure that the photo corner mounts are acid free.
Mike

[JanetC]

I don't have very many but what I do have I have stored in sleeves and then in a tub similar to what I store my stamps in. I have mine sorted by country and then by Scott #.

[swish513]

thank you all for your replies. i guess my way isn't the "most popular," but none of you have told me to stop. you all have been very helpful!

[cbavier]

I don't have many since I don't collect them. But what I do have, I store them in a Photo Album that has sleeves.

[kannik]

I do what Craig does, except that I make my own corner
mounts out of envelope corners I would otherwise throw
away. They can be bigger and more supportive of the
envelope`s weight, which is generally more than the
average photo! You have to use glue, of course, instead
of just licking ...!

[zepherusbane]

Jun 3, 2014 19:20:36 GMT -5 kannik said:

I do what Craig does, except that I make my own corner
mounts out of envelope corners I would otherwise throw
away. They can be bigger and more supportive of the
envelope`s weight, which is generally more than the
average photo! You have to use glue, of course, instead
of just licking ...!

What a novel idea!  Thanks for that kannik!  

I mostly just have a couple large piles of my covers.  

[kannik]

Thanks, Zeph! It works very well.
If you happen to save coloured envelope
corners, you can sometimes get REALLY
artsy and use co-ordinated corners!

[JanetC]

I like kannik idea. Think I might look into getting some scrapbooking supplies- paper and such and create a cover album using her idea to mount them.

[Fire]

Great idea kannik, I usually throw away 50 0r more envelopes a week after I have cut out the stamps. Now I can use more of the envelopes before throwing them away. That will be my contribution towards a green planet.

[kannik]

I have a lot of scrapbooking supplies. They love to
sell stuff, and among the stuff they like to sell are
very fancy, decorated photo mounts. Always better to
get that stuff (not so readily found any more though*)
in dollar stores, rather than scrapbooking stores.

(*I think the scrapbooking craze is about over unless you
do the online stuff. One reason is that photos are so
cheap to take and store on computer or CDs now that
few people print very many of their photos, which
is still expensive! I have a whole trolley-full of
photos I printed that I don`t have time to scrapbook.
The upshot of all this is that my chronological year
2009 is VERY well scrap-booked and very little else is!)

[Bee]

Jun 3, 2014 19:20:36 GMT -5 kannik said:

....... I would otherwise throw
away. They can be bigger and more supportive of the
envelope`s weight, which is generally more than the
average photo! You have to use glue, of course, instead
of just licking ...!

Thanks  kannik for the  idea.

[kannik]

Jun 4, 2014 15:55:55 GMT -5 Fire said:

Great idea kannik, I usually throw away 50 0r more envelopes a week after I have cut out the stamps. Now I can use more of the envelopes before throwing them away. That will be my contribution towards a green planet.

Good one, Fire - you`ll contribute a lot to our upcoming 
green planet by doing that!  Every little bit helps!

[kannik]

I think I will be doing more of this:
That Is, buying or reusing black construction paper,
my envelope corners idea (using 2-sided or 1-sided
tape or some kind of glue for them) and putting the
pages into clear plastic sheet protectors. The only
problem I foresee with this system is the extra space
they will take. But at least you can file them in
some kind of relocatable system (that only you under-
stand!) and they can stand up in binders, which are
more easily stored than, say, boxes or bags. It`s
probably a good idea to weed them periodically and
butcher a few for the stamps, though!

[cbavier]

Unless I misunderstood kannik

Why not use the corners off junk mail envelopes and just glue the corners into your photo album. You could cut them back say one inch each way or 3/4 of an inch. Whatever suits your fancy. Experiment on a scrap piece of paper until you find the size you like. I just tried it and I cut one inch back each way from the corner and then trimmed the front that shows off at an angle and it looked real good.

[kannik]

No, cbavier, I think you understood perfectly!
That`s exactly what we`ve been talking about.
Junk mail envelopes will give you lots of neutral
beige corners (at least Canadian ones do!) I
make mine about 1 inch each way too. Do you
mean that you snip out a small triangle in the
middle of the front section? (that`s what the
photo corner manufacturers do, if I remember
correctly, to expose a tiny bit more of the photo!)
It would be a lot of work, but the effect might
be worth it!

[kacyds]

Great idea!!!!

Would love to see some pictures to put this in perspective......

[cbavier]

Yes snip off the front corner on an angle just like the photo corner mounts are cut. I cannot post a picture since I am not connected to a printer/scanner. Sorry kacyds but you got the picture exactly. You could use different colored corners for different countries if you wanted to take it a step further.