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Last updated Wednesday 29 May 2019 (partial update 18 January
2022). Copyright Robert Murray, 1999 to 2022.
Robert Murray
Stamp Shop 5 & 6 Inverleith Gardens Edinburgh Scotland EH3 5PU Tel. 0131 552 1220 :: 0131 478 7021 Homepage; www.stamp-shop.com Email; [email protected] |
How to Order Mail Orders are accepted by post, telephone, email, or fax. We accept payments by cash, cheque, Visa/MasterCard, Switch/Delta, and some foreign currencies. Basically, we charge [the advertised price of the goods] plus [the actual price of postage] plus [£1 per order handling charge]. Full details can be seen at our How to Order page. |
Our
Shop is open four days each week, and customers are always, of course, welcome. We carry very wide stocks of the whole world - much, much more than is listed on our website. Full shop information at this link. |
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When soaking your stamps (or "floating"), no longer do
you need to have sheets of blotting paper laid out
across half the room. These books do the same job, but
much more neatly. |
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("Compass" and "Windmill Clearview" brands) ![]() There are very many different makes of stockbook for stamps on the market, often with only minor variations. To simplify matters, we only list here the "Compass" and Windmill "Clearview" types, and some of the Lighthouse ones below. We keep some others in stock, and can supply many other makes to order. Colours; most of these are available in red, green, blue, brown, or black - often in different shades. We cannot always guarantee the supply of specific colours, so if ordering please state your preferences, or just leave the choice to us. If the colour is important to you please get in touch so that we can confirm what is available.
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("Lighthouse" brand - "Leuchturm") Note that we always have some
Lighthouse stockbooks in stock, but not everything. If
it is important to you to get a particular type or
colour, please get in touch first.
All Lighthouse stockbooks are linen hinged and have the
strips sealed on the edge. A letter ‘T’ at the end of the
reference indicates a central dividing strip down the
middle of each page. DLH indicates double linen hingeing.
Generally available in maroon, red, blue, black or green
but not in all types ! [List here gives; Ref. No., Size, Number of sides,
Colour of page, Stripa per side, Price] |
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Exhibition
Protectors
These are protective sleeves that can be used to cover loose leaf album pages while they are on exhibit at a show or stamp club, or while pages are being shown to friends. They are glass-clear, thin (i.e. they don't add any significant rigidity to the page), and give protection against damage. They come in two sizes; Large size, 285x239mm, which are the correct size to fit "standard size" springback pages (e.g. Senator Standard, Simplex Standard, Windsor, Everest, etc.). Manufactured by Prinz. Packets fo 50 £9.95, packets of 200 £32.00 (average contents). Medium size, 270x215mm, which are the correct size to fit "medium size" springback pages (e.g. Senator Medium, Simplex Medium, various others). Venus brand. Packets fo 50 £8.95 (average contents). |
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Errington and Martin. All Errington & Martin albums are now discontinued, but we happen to have three of the "Foolscap" albums, with pages. These are £6 each (and two of them have marks on the spine from old price labels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
POSTCARD
ALBUMS
We keep four main types in stock.
Postcards come in different sizes, and some albums
will not fit all sizes. We would generally
classify three different postcard sizes as
follows;
{a} Traditional old postcard size (or "stationery postcard size") as used commonly up to about the 1950s/60s, and usually about 140 x 87mm {b} Modern size, as is the current size you'll commonly find on standard sale now, generally approx. 148 x 105mm (this is also the size for Post Office "PHQ Cards") {c} Jumbo size, which covers a variety of dimensions and formats, and is simply bigger than "modern". The capacity of an album will depend on how much thickness is stored in cards. If cards are put into pockets to show both sides this is clearly not as thick as cards inserted back-to-back and showing only the picture side. Inclusion of cards such as "silks" will further decrease the album's capacity. Albums available; Glen Postcard Album; two-ring binder (red, blue, green, black), supplied with 30 pages (capacity c.100 pages). Each page has two clear vertical pockets large enough to take "modern" or "traditional" sizes. .. £9.50 Extra pages can be had for this in a variety of formats, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6H, 6V, 8, 10, or 15 pockets. .. 15p each, £13.50 per 100 (mixed formats), £12.50 per 100 (of one format). Guardian Postcard Album; four-ring binder (red, green, or blue), supplied with 10 pages (capacity c.60 pages). Each page has four clear vertical pockets large enough to take "modern" or "traditional" sizes. .. £11.95 Extra pages are £3.50 for ten, or £33 per hundred. This binder will also take "Cosmic" pages (although these are just a slightly different width) which means that odd items of different sizes can be included. Large "Six-Up" Postcard Album (previously "Castle" or "VT"); large four-ring binder (red, blue, green, black) supplied with 30 pages (capacity up to c.100 pages). Each page has six clear pockets, big enough only for the "traditional" size cards, either in landscape or portrait format - normally supplied as a mixture, but we can fit contents to your requirements. .. £19.95 Extra pages in either format .. 45p each .. £4.00 per ten .. £36 per hundred Modern Postcard Album; three-ring blue binder with 15 two-pocket clear pages, each pocket 180 x 130mm and therefore big enough to take many "jumbo" sized cards. This album no longer produced, but we still have stocks. .. £9.95 Extra pages £6.95 per packet of ten. |
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Arricators. Self-adhesive red
arrows for pointing out printing errors, features of
design, etc. There used to be a great brand years ago
which were cheap but good - they've not been available for
a long time, but Lindner now supply these (and they are
much more tasteful than the previous ones they had, which
were very bright orange). Red arrow indicators, each arrow 26mm long on a clear self-adhesive background. Lindner ref. 802 020. Not suitable for sticking directly over the stamp, but will work best for a stamp that is already in a clear mount (e.g. Hawid, Showgard). Packet of 100 arricators. .. £8.30 (German = Hinweispfeile selbstklebend; French = Fléchettes de signalisation, Spanish = Flechas Indicadoras, also "Indicator decals" in English) |
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![]() Peregrine self-adhesive photograph corners. Small size (width across diagonal approx.13mm, longest edge 16mm). These are self-adhesive and come in a roll of 250 in a dispenser box. They are made of clear plastic. The adhesive back is stuck to your page, and the item being displayed slots into the corner without coming into contact with any adhesive. Packet of 250 for £1.90 Tray of ten packets (= 2,500 corners) for £16.50 |
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WATERMARK DETECTORS![]() We stock a variety of watermark detectors, but our basic advice is that they are very personal items. That is, one that is suitable for one collector may not work well for another person - it has more to do with dexterity, eyesight, and your brain's ability to see patterns, than it has to do with the accessory itself. And you'll normally find that the collector who understands watermark production will get better results. So we don't recommend buying a watermark detector mail order ! We'll mention just one item here at the moment - Prinz Supersafe Watermark Fluid in 250ml cans at £9.95. These cannot be sent through the post but we have them available for over-the-counter shop customers. (We also have the small dropper bottles at £1.60.) NB, the picture still shows a bottle - it now comes in cans. Robert Murray's advice; If you are having problems with watermarks, find an experienced collector who can spend a bit of time with you showing you what they do, and letting you try. If you are anywhere in our area look out for our "Watermark Workshops" which we run now and again - see www.stamp-shop.com/stamp-workshops. |
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CLEARFACE BAGS - transparent packets Clear packets with white backs, suitable for sorting stamps (and many people use them for all sorts of other things too - coins, postcards, cigarette cars, documents, seeds, tickets, programmes, etc., etc.). The front of each packet is made of clear polypropylene film, and the back is of white paper. They have flush tops (i.e. no fold-over flap) and they all open on the short side. For many purposes these are preferable over totally plastic packets, as they can "breathe" through the paper. Sizes are given here in imperial, and prices are for bundles of an average 100, or for full packages of 1,000.
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