New Member Seeking Mounting Advice

So, with thousands of stamps mounted over the past three years with Scott/Prinz split-back Black mounts, I am now redoing my album pages.

I find the Hawid mounts MUCH more difficult to stick to pages than Scott mounts. They really slide around for me, or don't stick if they aren't wet enough, while Scott seem to be foolproof to mount. Any suggestions for best way to attach them to the cardstock or album pages?

I also do have problems with stamps moving around more with Hawid mounts - any tips or tricks to that problem?

With those two issues listed, I am still planning of using for my new album pages -
1. Hawid open top Clear mounts;
2. Applying them onto colored cardstock backing (archival quality); and then
3. Mounting the card stocked backed mounts onto Lighthouse album pages with Removable Double-Sided Tape (photo-safe).

Does anyone see problems, better methods, suggestions?

I haven't found that stamps move much in top-loading mounts. I fix the mount with a dab from a glue stick, not water. If there is a need to avoid damage to the leaf, double-sided tape should achieve this. I'm not sure what a further piece of card at the back of the mount will achieve, aside from creating more bulk in the centre of the pages, thus further reducing the capacity of the album.

How about hinging the mount to the page?

Jack Kelley

Sorry for not explaining. My reason for using card backing would be to create an "exhibit-like" album, with used, unused, proofs, and variation studies presented on four different backing colors to provide more distinction to the specific philatelic areas. The negative is thicker pages.

From your comment, I just thought that an alternative that might work would be to print colored backgrounds on my album pages for the mounts to sit on - that would help with positioning as well as solve page thickness. I will test to see how that idea looks on my pages!

Glue stick is a great idea - I just searched and found archival quality glue stick - I had no idea it existed! Is glue stick commonly used by the community?

Those two pointers have helped me a bunch!

The advantage of glue stick is that it avoids moisture. The disadvantage is that it will mark the page if the mount is removed. If the page is quadrille on which I've written in fountain pen, that doesn't matter. If it's an expensive page from a German manufacturer that I could otherwise re-use, it does. Hence the interest elsewhere on here in using the double-sided tape method you described.

I use double-sided scrapbooking tape. It's acid free, and can be removed without damaging the mount or the page in most cases.