Preferences for Hingeless Album

[MikeC99]

I am thinking about buying a hingeless album for my Germany collection. I collect from 1872 to approx. 1980 not including East Germany. To cover this timeframe I would probably have to buy two albums.  I have a hingeless Lighthouse album for Canada (1851 to1987) which I like because of the nice clean pages, pleasing layout and heavy weight paper. Before I buy a hingeless album for Germany I would like to know from others who have purchased hingeless albums from different manufacturers what your preferences are.

Mike

[Craig]

The Davo albums look good to me, but I've never tried them. The hingeless albums that I have are Lighthouse and they are very well done. I love .em ... France, Ryukyus and Andorra.

[khj]

In my collection, I've used a mish-mash of Scott, Lindner, Lighthouse, Borek, Davo, and SAFE hingeless albums.

My preference is Lighthouse, and more than half of my hingless albums are Lighthouse. I'm biased because I prefer open-top mounts (as opposed to split-back).

I do not have a Germany hingless album (yet). I do have a 5-volume Borek hingless DDR album set. But it is in German.

Even if I had no mount preference, I would still prefer the Lighthouse albums.

I didn't go into much detail, because I don't know what you might be looking for. If you need specific information about the album styles for those manufacturers, feel free to ask specific questions.

Best wishes on your endeavor...

(Yeah, I have a Canada Lighthouse hingeless)

k

[cbavier]

Kim you don't have a Canadian Album you would want to sell do you?
Chuck

[khj]

Aug 10, 2014 7:51:32 GMT -5 cbavier said:

Kim you don't have a Canadian Album you would want to sell do you?
Chuck

Afraid not, Chuck. All I've got at this point is my Canada Lighthouse hingeless and a partial Darnell (not hingeless), and I want to keep both of them.

[km41566]

I have only used Davo for my mint United States and I have been happy with it. Before, they were mounted in a Harris Liberty Album. I liked the information they gave about each stamp, but the pages were too thin. Plus I did not like trying to figure out what size mounts I needed all the time for the larger material.