Mystic Self Adhesive Black Mounts

Does anyone her has any experience with these mounts? I used to use Showgard mounts. I just picked up a vintage Scott National album and I'm looking for mounts that will fit within, or just on, the outlines of each space.

Showgards tend to run a little larger than the spaces, because back in the 50s and 60s, PM mounts were the norm. Thanks.

Use them and like them.

are you looking for sizes where you need more then 5 each?? there a place that sells all the sizes, black or clear email if your interested. these are the old style - lick to stick

But best lightly dabbed with glue, rather than licked!

In general, so much cheaper buying strips and cutting to size.

On those self adhesive mounts, is the entire back self-adhesive, or just a portion of it? I'd be a little leery of the adhesive migrating over time, but it probably wouldn't be too much of an issue if just a small strip had the adhesive on it.

I suspect you're using black backed mounts where the mount covers up the stamp box printed on the page. If so, having the very visible mount extend beyond the box where the stamp gets mounted does look a little odd sometimes. That's because with black mounts your eyes sees the black "frame" around the stamp, one of the reasons many collectors like black mounts, in fact. You can't not see it.

However, rather than searching for the perfect sized black mount which will fit neatly into every stamp box on every page (which would then be quickly discontinued if you had my luck!), what might work much better is to use clear mounts. With clear mounts you don't really notice the mount very much at all. You see the stamp and its frame printed on the page. A slightly larger mount that goes beyond the frame hardly matters. Might be a good reason to switch. This is the reason, I suspect, that all major album manufacturers use clear mounts on their hingeless pages. It just looks better, it's cleaner, and they do not cover the stamp boxes.

Pages with mixed black backed and clear mounts, by the way, have never bothered me -- though some people don't like it. Those people are wrong, of course. I mix stamps in mounts with hinged stamps, so why should I care if I also mix some black mounts with clear mounts? They all look good to me.

I use clear mounts exclusively, largely for the reasons you mention. I also mix hinged and mounted stamps in the same album, sometimes on the same page. This would look odd (in my opinion) with black mounts, but it looks fine with clear mounts. I can also get away with stocking fewer sizes, since a mount that is slightly too large isn't very noticeable. As a worldwide collector, that's important to me because otherwise I'd literally have to keep every possible size on hand. In addition to clear mounts, I use Vario 1C (clear 1-pocket) pages for souvenir sheets, placed directly in front of the album page it's supposed to be mounted on. This allows for easy viewing of both sides of the sheet and you can usually still center it within the box on the album page. I also keep large parts of my collection in Lighthouse stockbooks and on Vario pages, which of course eliminates the need for a mount or a hinge.

I used clear mounts in my Canada album. I like that they are hidden and I could put mounts on the page even if there were no stamps in it. However, the black mounts would look better because they show the centering better. But then you need to match the size closer. Maybe it is my eyes getting old. I do not like to mix mounts on a page. I put one black mount on a page because I did not have a clear mount in the right size. It bothered me so much that I had to buy a pack of clear mounts in that size and replace the black one.

@DrewM, thanks for the reply. Yes, black backed mounts like Showgard tend to hang over the printed stamp box lines. In my vintage National album there isn't much space between the boxes, on pages for the Franklin-Washingtons or Kansas-Nebraska overprints for example, so the pages could end up looking crowded.

I really like the look of my father's old PM mounts.

I use Showgard all the way. Way cheaper to cut your own from strips.

Jack