How do you organize your stamp duplicates?

If they are worth 50pence or more they get mounted in booklets , Commonwealth, Foreign , or GB for circulating packets to be mailed round one of 4 Society circuits I belong to . They travel in UK for up to six months before returning to me with proceeds of sales. If they are not worth selling individually then they go into the “ junk box” for give-aways or bulk disposal 1000 at a time.


I have just done 5 small give away lots this week and had a couple of junk box clearances over the summer. I’d love to say my desk is tidier, but that is a lie.


Otherwise I do not Organise .

I had a similar query a while back asking how people organized their stamps for trading. I have almost all of my spares in a binder on Vario and Hagner pages but most not individually identified. I rarely have more than one copy of anything as I do not seek out accumulations.

Over time, I plan to inventory them so I can trade more efficiently with folks like tobben63.

You would think stamp societies could give out thousands of stamps to new members.

It depends on their quantity, condition and value. I have lots of rough cheapies in envelopes, but nice extras (if I only have 1 or 3) are in 102s or glassines (more than that). Items that don't fit are bindered in varios.

Stockbooks, to me, are pretty much temporary storage for sorting.

Primary in a stockbook, the most boring in envelopes...

I've actually been contemplating the eventuality of having more duplicates than I can use. I like varieties, cancels multiples etc...., to add to my various albums. But, even with that I still wind up with gazillions. I do like the idea of trading, but have never done any. I've just been an accumulator, or stamp "harvester". My idea is going to be to make up as large of packets as I can, of all-different stamps for each country, and trade for similar sized, all-different packets of countries I don't have very good representation in.

Well polarbear - you made my day - I try to give my "dups" as much as I can but cannot (too many in Books, Vario pages, Glassines etc)
I do giveaways to share with Forum friends - and do private stuff also - 
René

 Glad I made your day Renden.    Having said all that, it’s time to address the sad state of the sale binder!  

update...3 months later  I'm still sorting and have had to 'expand' and reload Visio pages as I've ended up with to many and there's no clear view of the stamp which makes future sorting slow and cumbersome-  should have allowed for this when I started, but I honestly wasn't anticipating soo many stamps

I may have a hoarding disorder

Rene

LOL I have a very understanding wife

she has her cello room and reading/ movie, whatever (including ironing and folding laundry) and I have my stamp room/ music studio

the secret- were at opposite sides of the house!

and eventually i will look to  get rid of all excess (my goal is not to start my own stamp store... though that may be the initial route)- I have sold on e-Bay and it works OK- when it comes time I'll find more out about E-Bay, Hip Stamp, and Delcamp and decide which one makes the most 'cents'

Stan, stainlessb, I think the disorder is called "stamp collector" and we all have a touch of it!

But it is very interesting to note the differences between those who actively try to purge the duplicates and those of us who have oodles and oodles. For me, the problem stems from kiloware binges in the 2000's and a love of buying collections, AND the fact that I decided to sell five major collections. But, I'm being a good lil stamper and I got busy selling.

Trying to stay on topic - Regarding HOW TO ORGANIZE - I really can't stress how much I prefer the dealer cards over stock books if you plan to sell because the catalog numbers and prices are right there and you can quickly pull the card if it sells. One workaround is using little slips of paper with numbers and values but when you pull the stamps to sell, it is easy for the slips of paper to become separated.  Stockbooks or Vario type stock pages seem to be nicer for 1:1 trading. Of course this is all just my lil ole humble opinion!

If you do want to sell for the first time, I recommend trying Stamporama first. No fees and the sellers are free to set terms. Much more flexibility and a good place to practice and get comfortable without making any financial or store commitments.