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Hello cjpalermo,
Agreed - as I mentioned in my last post, I have little interest in collecting the later issues, even those of 20 - 30 years back! I may have misled with one of my earlier posts where I was just looking for information as to alternative supplements.
Thinking of going with the Mystic Premium American Heirloom set - not the same quality as the Scott Platinum but certainly good enough.
I have often been accused of never being satisfied and always wanting to 'tweak' things, often to the detriment of whatever. I admit I am an OCD personality and often find it difficult to accept satisfactory in the search for perfect.
I'm trying to live by the rule,"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien", ("Perfect is the enemy of good.")
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As I noted in a recent posting that didn't get much comment, after owning the Mystic Premium Hingeless American Heirloom albums for about a year, I am noticing that the pages are curling, with the result that some of the stamps mounted at the tops and bottoms of certain pages are beginning to curl. I have considered the Schaubek hingeless but I am concerned about the split back mounts particularly with respect to unused stamps.
I have also noticed that the Mystic albums are missing certain Scott numbers such as 102-111.
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Hello Oracle,
I guess you already know what I am going to post with that name!
Interesting about the curling of pages that you are seeing - obviously not a 'good thing'! Have you contacted Mystic to get any feedback/suggestions? Where are you located geographically? Perhaps the local environmental conditions are a factor.
Certainly those things would be a major problem and please understand I am not making light of your situation, just wonder what the cause is and if there is any solution.
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Mike |
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I am seriously considering going with the Mystic Premium Heirloom set as they seem to fulfill most of my requirements and at a very reasonable price.
Another option is to use Vario stock pages until you can find an album. They do come up from time-to-time on ebay. An empty Scott Platinum Volume 1 (1845-1934) typically sells for $100-$125. I think it's worth the wait! Brian |
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Hello Brian,
If you are not serious about that album I just might chase it! Please let me know.
All the best,
Mike
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MikeA - lol, unfortunately my oracular skills seem to have dwindled over the years. Got tired of sitting on that tripod. Good to see a new member adding some levity to this forum (I'm a relative newcomer myself).
Good questions - we've moved around a bit since I got the albums so they have been inhabiting temperate, hot & humid, and hot & dry climates. So I'm beginning to think that the problem is endemic to the album pages themselves and the manner in which they were manufactured. The one member who did reply to my other post mentioned the same problem, but it sounded like the warping and rippling in his pages showed up right at the start and the replacement pages he received were not any better apparently. My pages appeared OK when they first arrived so I happily started filling them with stamps. Over time as the pages began to fill, each page developed a curve with the middle up higher than the top and bottom. Of course this may just be due to the fact that there are more stamps mounted in the middle third of each page versus the top and bottom which have fewer spaces printed for stamps to be mounted. However, I don't recall seeing any similar complaints from other folks who use other albums.
I'm not so concerned about the albums holding my newer stuff since it's not worth a lot anyway, but the first album in the series covers 1847-1934 along the airmails up to Scott C19. So I'm getting concerned about what will happen to my better material. Given the other poster's experience with requesting new pages from Mystic, and given the fact that the effect has shown up gradually over the course of a year, I'm not sure that getting replacement pages from Mystic will be a solution. However, it is a good suggestion to contact them, so I will do so to see what they have to say.
with regard to the split-back mounts, I have tried a few and have just found that my natural clumsiness (good thing I didn't go into brain surgery) may pose a hazard to my stamps since it can be a chore to get them properly situated in the mount. I also have a concern about whether the edges of the split will leave some sort of crease across my mint stamps over time. I have seen comments in this thread and elsewhere on both sides of that question. I would be interested in comments from anyone else who has used the split-back mounts over a long period of time w/r to any adverse impacts on mint stamps (or otherwise).
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If you are not serious about that album I just might chase it! Please let me know.
If I really wanted it, I wouldn't have put a link for you guys :) Cheers! Brian |
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Hello OoD,
I know how you feel - if my oracle abilities were up to snuff I would have retired many years ago and be sitting on my private Caribbean Island, glass of Dom in hand deciding which GEM or Superb stamps I would be buying to fill the few remaining spots in my albums. 
Alas, it was not to be, so I will be satisfied with decent Mint, NH stamps of the more common, garden variety that other normal humans collect.
As regards your situation with the pages rippling - it does sound as though some of the effect is a consequence of the way the stamps seem to fill the middle of the pages, although please remember I am trying to visualize your situation and find my Oracular capabilities severely limited!
Has anyone contacted you with either similar experience or contesting it? Again, a call to Mystic might be well worth your while, as from what little I have learned they seem to be responsive to customer problems.
I await your further reports.
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Hello OoD,
Yes, that does not look good, especially if you have roughly equivalent stamps in the other album.
Best thing to do is contact Mystic and see what they have to say.
All the best,
Mike
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My guess is that the bulge in the Mystic may be due to the lightweight paper used for the pages. I have my Mystic pages enclosed in protectors which seems to cause them to lay flat, more binders needed, however. |
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Stamps1962 - thanks for the tip. I was thinking of spreading the pages among more binders. What type/brand of protectors do you use? |
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As a visual example of what I'm talking about, the pictures below compare the Mystic album with a Palo hingeless album that I use for my Greek stamps. Even though there are about the same number of stamps in each, the Palo album has only a slight bulge while the Mystic album has the more extreme curling that I noted before. Is this typical of other albums?
Is this an issue, other than being cosmetic? |
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