Another great video and thanks for sharing the info on the free web site. Just as a personal note, perhaps I'm a neat freak but to have some stamps hinged and some in mounts on the same page gives ii a really unkempt look. Good luck deciding which pages type you choose.
I feel your pain. How can the average person really tell the difference between slate and gray black on a stamp that is over 100 years old. As a person who is partially color blind I find color very frustrating sometimes. I think that your extras idea is a good thing. Regarding your mount space problem if you have only licked the top part of the mount you can take the row of stamps out and using an exacto cut the top from the inside. This will leave a portion of the black on the page but if you put the whole row back in one strip and cover it, I think that you should not be able to see the difference and it will look better than trying to squeezed one stamp in. I use Colnect to find stamps that are not Scott listed. Looks like you will have one great Japanese album.
I was watching some Stanley Gibbons guys talk about deciding colors can be one of the hardest things to do sometimes. Thanks for the mounting suggestion, I will decide what to do over time I suppose.
New to collecting and trying to identify the different paper types. Could you direct me to a resource or do a video as I have found nothing in the way of US stamp paper types . Huge frustration. Love you’re channel and super informative.
So, I have dabbled only a small bit into paper types and found it frustrating myself. I did a video on granite paper postage stamps you can watch and those are fairly easy to identify. For all of the other types I usually search google and read forums myself to learn about whatever specific paper type you are looking for. I just found a decent page from stampsmarter.org that explains a lot of the paper types. They are an incredible resource by the way for a whole lot of things in general - check out their websites features. Anyways, here is a link to the page: stampsmarter.org/learning/Manuf_PaperUsedForUSStamps.html
Colnect is awesome. You can use it like a catalog and it keeps track of all the stamps in your collection and up for swap. It is an essential resource in my opinion. I don’t even need official catalogs anymore because the stamps are on there.
Great advice, I just made an account on there but then got sidetracked considering other stamp inventory software like EZstamp with SRS or StampManage... I'm not pulling the trigger on any of them yet. I need to watch more videos and learn which ones I think would work best for me. Inventorying my collection is still new to me and I love all the different suggestions people have. Thank you for your input!
I use an old-style Scott International, 2 post binder for my Japan collection. It looks like your pages are based on Scott International pages because the format is exactly the same with boxes for the stamps in a row, meant for stamps to be hinged into it. I get around this problem by cutting individual mounts that fit nicely around the stamp and I don't worry about the spacing side to side. When I place the mounted stamp in the album I leave a 1~2 mm space between each mount and ignore the spacing between the stamps on the printed page. You will have a 2 mm white space between your mounted stamps but, once a row is complete it actually looks better, in my opinion.
Japanese stamps can be difficult to put in order because of the papers and boarders . And the number of forgeries. I collect mainly Japanese stamps. I do have a site on Facebook called Japanese stamp collectors. Happy collecting
