Advice needed on mounting and shipping stamps

Hello, recently I posted to this newsgroup a request for advice on the
dispersal of an old stamp collection (US & Worldwide). I have decided to
break up the collection into lots divided by country.

I am new to stamp collecting, and now need advice on how to properly mount
and ship the stamps. There are three albums, with thousands of stamps in
each album. Some stamps have been hinged, some of those have fallen loose.
And other unhinged stamps have been tossed loose into their respective
pages.

I have purchased a scanner so that I can properly display the stamps on
eBay.

The recommendations of the regular readers in this newsgroup are greatly
appreciated.

Best Regards, Kramer

Kramer,

Don't bother. Just buy a bunch of glassene envelopes. Throw all the loose
stamps in those for shipping. You can arrange them on the bed of your
scanner to show your ebay lot, but then carefully place them into a glassine
envelope. This way the recipient can decide if they want to keep you pages
(not likley at all) and saves them the step of undoing your mounting job.

Also I always place some cereal box cardstock in the envelope to keep it
from bending (I sandwiche my envelop between 2 pieces of this stuff and tape
it in place). I have had no complaints on anything I've sold on ebay this
way. Collectors do not usually like creases, tears, stains and other damage
to their stamps. There are very few exceptions (expensive stamps that are
damaged are usually called space fillers).

Don't forget to announce your lots in the marketplace NG, not this
discussion NG. This will make everybody here happy. Good luck selling your
stamps.

Frank

"Barry Kramer" wrote in message
...
Hello, recently I posted to this newsgroup a request for advice on the
dispersal of an old stamp collection (US & Worldwide). I have decided to
break up the collection into lots divided by country.

I am new to stamp collecting, and now need advice on how to properly mount
and ship the stamps. There are three albums, with thousands of stamps in
each album. Some stamps have been hinged, some of those have fallen
loose.
And other unhinged stamps have been tossed loose into their respective
pages.

I have purchased a scanner so that I can properly display the stamps on
eBay.

The recommendations of the regular readers in this newsgroup are greatly
appreciated.

Best Regards, Kramer

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:25:01 GMT, "Barry Kramer"
wrote:

Hello, recently I posted to this newsgroup a request for advice on the
dispersal of an old stamp collection (US & Worldwide). I have decided to
break up the collection into lots divided by country.

I am new to stamp collecting, and now need advice on how to properly mount
and ship the stamps. There are three albums, with thousands of stamps in
each album. Some stamps have been hinged, some of those have fallen loose.
And other unhinged stamps have been tossed loose into their respective
pages.

I have purchased a scanner so that I can properly display the stamps on
eBay.

The recommendations of the regular readers in this newsgroup are greatly
appreciated.

Best Regards, Kramer


Barry:

Are you talking about mounting for sale
or mounting for your collection?

Blair



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My first stamp purchase for myself was a sheet of 70 nh definitive US
stamps. I received them in good order, packaged in a large glassine
envelope enclosed in a large cardboard type white envelope. I removed
them
one time to examine my purchase. When out of the packaging, they tend to
want to curl up a bit.

I also have several Japanese commemorative stamps, unused, that were hinged,
and are also curling up, these are curling more than just a bit? What
causes this? Should I leave them be or do something about it, such as
placing them between the pages of a large heavy book?

Best Regards, Kramer