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Stanislav Dmitriev
Album for the labels
If you are planning to exhibit your collection, the best way to keep it is to attach label to the cardboard exhibition sheet and keep them in the thematic hard cover paper cases. But this method is not cheap, demands a lot of space and inconvenient when you want to show your collection to someone or look it trough yourself.
Most convenient way of showing you collection to your friends and look it trough yourself is when the labels are kept in the albums. The easiest (but most expensive) way is to use special stamp albums with cardboard pages and narrow transparent pockets attached to pages. And these albums may demand even more space than in the above-mentioned case.
You can also use (very old-fashioned now) stamp albums with sewn-in checked pages. But they are not convenient when you need to change the placement of labels on the sheet, add or take away a label or to move the page to another album. And it is almost impossible to exhibit the labels, placed in such an album.
Now at any office supplies shop you can find a relatively cheap hardcover binders of desired capacity. Folders with 4-8 rings are more convenient to keep heavy pages with labels (or even skillets). Of cause you can use the folder with two rings, but in this case there will be a need to use more thick paper. The best (but more costly) way for keeping the pages is to place them into transparent binder pockets / sheet protectors. You can place two pages into such a cover, so that one can see the labels on the both sides of the opened album.
If you decided to keep pages w/o sleeves you will need a puncher of specific design (not a cheap device). But you can also use a one-hole puncher (with a template).
The paper for the album should be relativly thick (100 g/m2 or heavier). For convinience of placing labes on the sheet it is usful to have a check pattern on it. Wide spread of laser printers (newer use ink-jet for that!) makes this easy
You can download sample patterns here:
JPG - 5 mm and 2.5 mm step (650Kb)
AI - 5 mm and 2.5 mm step (300 Kb).
Now about attaching the labels. The easiest way is to go to the nearest post office and beg some loose edges of stamp lists (usually they are (fully or partially) covered by water-soluble glue. But you can do the equally usable paper yourself. Prepare relatively thick starch solution (of prepare some casein glue) and apply it (not too thin) on a sheet of paper. After drying cut the sheet into convenient straps (about 1 sm. wide) and use as stamp edges. If you'll need to take a label from the sheet just cut the fastening strip and wet out its remnants.
Victor Raldugin recommends to use rubber glue for the purpose, but you shold check its usability on some used newspapers first, as they differ widly in composition.
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