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Duplicate storage - a query to the group
I have a question for this fine forum!
How do you sort and maintain your stock of duplicates? Any details would be greatly appreciated, as I try to devise an efficient method for handling my worldwide duplicates (pre 1940). I'm looking at stockbooks and glassines. Thanks in advance, Don Hearl APS# 159887 |
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Don Hearl wrote in message
om... I have a question for this fine forum! How do you sort and maintain your stock of duplicates? Any details would be greatly appreciated, as I try to devise an efficient method for handling my worldwide duplicates (pre 1940). I'm looking at stockbooks and glassines. Like my dealer does: in stockbooks sorted by country and then chronologically by year, with note of cat.numbers. I don't have duplicates from this period by the hundreds, so this method works fine for me ;-) -- Ann Mette Heindorff amhstamps (at) adr dot dk DFF # 101155. ATA # 53062-6. CSSG # 477 http://slaniastamps.school.dk http://stamptravel.ninja.dk |
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Don Hearl wrote:
I have a question for this fine forum! How do you sort and maintain your stock of duplicates? Any details would be greatly appreciated, as I try to devise an efficient method for handling my worldwide duplicates (pre 1940). I'm looking at stockbooks and glassines. Thanks in advance, Don Hearl APS# 159887 I have a three level system. Up to five of the better copies go into stockbooks. Duplicates in excess go into glassines (#2) in cigar boxes, by country and by age. It is from these that I take copies for trade. Finally duplicates in excess of 50 are bundled and stored in boxes. |
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"Don Hearl" wrote in message om... I have a question for this fine forum! How do you sort and maintain your stock of duplicates? Any details would be greatly appreciated, as I try to devise an efficient method for handling my worldwide duplicates (pre 1940). I'm looking at stockbooks and glassines. Hey Don, I use boxes of 102 cards (the ones with the plastic on one side and a place to write the details). I mostly use the boxes they come in, but have one long red box as well. I do this for countries I seriously collect, like Canada which is in 1.5 of these boxes. Stamps I have bazillions of get thrown into a shoebox to be made into assortments for auction time. These boxes of cards are very easy to carry around and keep sorted. One thing I do though is tell people not to take the cards, I am not a dealer and they get quite expensive. I keep old glassys for that. Frank |
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"Eric Bustad" wrote in message ... I use boxes of 102 cards (the ones with the plastic on one side and a place to write the details). I mostly use the boxes they come in, but have one long red box as well. I do this for countries I seriously collect, like Canada which is in 1.5 of these boxes. Stamps I have bazillions of get thrown into a shoebox to be made into assortments for auction time. These boxes of cards are very easy to carry around and keep sorted. One thing I do though is tell people not to take the cards, I am not a dealer and they get quite expensive. I keep old glassys for that. A ditto on this one. It seems that these cards cost about the same as glassines. They don't hold quite as much, but generally I don't have enough of any one stamp for that to be a problem. I can note the country and catalog numbers at the top so that a particular stamp can be easier found. Also easier for others to search through for stamps that they want. Not to mention that I usually only have to carry one such box to club, usually something I know one person is looking for (say Germany), usually if the box is lying around a few will poke through it and usually I can some of my purchases that night. I like to keep tabs on how much I spend so I just usually spend that + whatever I sell ;-) Is that a sign of an addiction? Frank |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:55:39 -0400, "Frank Emanuel"
wrote: "Eric Bustad" wrote in message ... I use boxes of 102 cards (the ones with the plastic on one side and a place to write the details). I mostly use the boxes they come in, but have one long red box as well. I do this for countries I seriously collect, like Canada which is in 1.5 of these boxes. Stamps I have bazillions of get thrown into a shoebox to be made into assortments for auction time. These boxes of cards are very easy to carry around and keep sorted. One thing I do though is tell people not to take the cards, I am not a dealer and they get quite expensive. I keep old glassys for that. A ditto on this one. It seems that these cards cost about the same as glassines. They don't hold quite as much, but generally I don't have enough of any one stamp for that to be a problem. I can note the country and catalog numbers at the top so that a particular stamp can be easier found. Also easier for others to search through for stamps that they want. Not to mention that I usually only have to carry one such box to club, usually something I know one person is looking for (say Germany), usually if the box is lying around a few will poke through it and usually I can some of my purchases that night. I like to keep tabs on how much I spend so I just usually spend that + whatever I sell ;-) Is that a sign of an addiction? "Controlled" addiction... :^P Tracy Barber |
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Dear Group!
I appreciate all of these responses! I have been collecting in #4 glassines for a number of years. Based on your methods, I've decided to incorporate 104a collection cards, for trading and club activites. They will easily fit into my system. Regards, Don |
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