Manila Stamp Stock Pages

[darkormex]

posted by zepherusbane
I've received 3 old style manila stock pages that were used as packing in stamp shipments from other bears and I found them to be very nice.

I started putting my used stamps into those to facilitate finding things for trades much more quickly than I've been able to do in the past and was thinking of getting more of them.

Can any of you offer advice on what considerations I should be making when selecting them? I don't think I would need brand new ones, the ones I do have are quite old but still completely functional and adequate for my needs.

[darkormex]

posted by kacyds
Over the years, I too have received about a dozen or so of those Manila type stock Pages. I love them. I mainly use them to store stamps that I have id and are waiting to be put in an album. Also they are great to store dups for trading(but you have already said that.......... )

I too would like to have more of them, but have yet to find some used from any of the auction sites.

Hopefully someone will have a suggestion...........

[darkormex]

zepherusbane, I purchase used manila stock pages in large quantities off of ebay. I find the 3-ring style with 12 slots to be the best. It is generally all I use for my stock with the exception of a few bound stock books that I have accumulated through the years.

Too me the are most useful because I can mark them with scott numbers or whatever description in pencil and erase it later.

I have taken to drawing 4 vertical pencil lines every 2 inches from top to bottom and labeling each square created in this way, with the catalog number. It seems to work pretty efficiently when you have a large accumulation of stamps for a given country.