Has anyone ever found any 3 ring binder that will take the Scott Specialty pages without them protruding? I'd like to find something besides their binders, they are getting very expensive.
No, never have outside of Subway, but they have discontinued the G&K brand for their jumbo green binder. They told me that there were too many complaints from collectors that the jumbo binder was too heavy. I told Subway to tell those people not to buy the jumbo binder, but leave the binder in their catalog so that others could buy it. The binder was discontinued.
You can find used binders at shows and dealers may have some to simply give away. Also, many used (and new) binders are available on ebay. Some of these are in pretty bad condition, because many collectors like to put 500 pages in a binder that only holds 300, which breaks the flaps holding the front and back binder boards to the binder spline. Most, however, are all right to use.
However, their 12x12 binders are likely not any cheaper than Scott binders. I use their 8.5x11 binders for my Vintage Reproduction pages, which works well.
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re: Alternative Binders for Scott Pages?
Most all of my albums are the 2 post Green Scott Specialty types. Many of them are getting quite beat up as many were used when I got them and I need to replace which is easier said than done. I haven't tried finding them in a long time and fear they will be harder to find than they were before. The only thing I know of that work for the larger pages other than Scott are the Springback binders made by Schaubek and lighthouse. Holes are not an issue
because the spring holds the pages in place, however they only hold a limited number of pages, probably 150 would be stretching the limit. I only use them for a few smaller countries including my most prized collection; 19th century U.S. on 80 Scott Platinum hingeless pages. I think most dealer have clients who have that have asked for them in advance. Still they are one of the most popular albums and it would seem there should be many of them somewhere. My pages are all in good shape but some of the binders are just down right ugly. Shipping charges also adds a lot to the price if you can even find them.
I'm certainly a buyer if anyone has any at reasonable prices. While some of my binders may contain 6 or more smaller countries some major countries require 4 to 5 albums and their colonies another 5 or 6 binders, their are a lot of binders to deal with.
This is probably blasphemous, but since I am more concerned with completeness and keeping things in order, and because I use Steiner pages for some of my foreign collections, I have resorted to cutting down the Scott pages. This saves money on the large Scott 3 ring binders and enables me to use standard 3 ring binders. Following are examples. Steiner page and cut down Scott page.
Not sure why the 3 holes are not showing on the Steiner page
Everything fits nice and neat. As Tuskin would say, just my 2 cents.
Here are two more sites that offer G&K products, but I did not explore enough to see if
they carried those binders. I didn't want to spoil all the fun of the chase for you.
"Everything fits nice and neat. As Tuskin would say, just my 2 cents."
Ah yes, that crusty Tusken would say that. Actually those stamps look like they were
aligned on the pages with a plumb bob and a surveyor's transit. Someone who can mount
stamps that straight without those tools, could probably assemble their own light saber.
The 8200A G&K binders that Subway lists on their website would seem to work well. I have my Scott pages in G&K binders that look similar to the pictures that they show, but I am not sure that they are exactly the same. Anyway, they seem to work well for me. Mine were bought from them years ago at their booth at ASDA shows in NYC.
I'm pretty sure the Lighthouse Classic Grande binder will fit 10x11.5 even though they are described to fit 9.5 x 12 sheets (actually 9.6 x 12). Overall dimensions are larger at 11.5 x 13.25.
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