stamp hinge

Nevertheless, stamp hinges remain popular as a mounting method.

Not that stamp hinges were valuable.

Mount your picture with stamp hinges or pieces of masking tape on corners or top edge.

As Keldorff's fumbling fingers reached into a small box to bring out another stamp hinge, he let his hand shift to an envelope beneath.

Stamp hinges were introduced soon after, allowing stamps to be removed without major damage to either the stamp or the album page.

He'd forgotten the stamp hinges.

While looking for the one with the lightest cancellation, Stelton reached for a batch of stamp hinges.

Other common tools include stamp catalogues, stamp stockbooks and stamp hinges.

Philatelists use glassine envelopes to store stamps, and stamp hinges are sometimes made of glassine.

Stamp hinges are used by stamp collectors to put postage stamps onto the pages of the stamp album.

Hinge remaining (HR) is a mint stamp which has part of a stamp hinge on the back.

The best stamp hinges are also designed to be "peelable", meaning that the stamp may be removed from the page, and the hinge from the stamp, without any damage to either.

The hinging referred to in these terms is mounting of the stamp in a stamp album by the application of a stamp hinge to the back of the stamp.

Unused stamps with full original gum (OG) on the back are worth more than stamps without gum or complete gum, for instance those that have been mounted using a stamp hinge.

Mint never-hinged (MNH or Mint NH, NH, u/m) is an unused stamp that has full original undisturbed gum with no trace of damage done by a stamp hinge.

The stamps need to be attached to the pages of the album in some way and stamp hinges are a cheap and simple way to do this, although some collectors prefer more expensive hingeless mounts if the stamps are valuable.

While not so much of a problem for modern issues, the traditional way of mounting stamps in an album was with the use of stamp hinges, and some experts claim that very few unused stamps from the 19th century have not been hinged at some point in their existence.