Question For Scott National And Minuteman Numbers

The 1990s Looney Tunes imperfts, how does Scott want them mounted? Complete sheet or just one imperf stamp?

Really who cares what Scott wants. Just satisfy yourself, just don't do singles. Imperfs have usually always been collected in pairs to show the variety best.

I'm just curious. Mystic makes you mount the whole sheet. I'm just curious how other albums dealt with these imperfs.

Obviously it must not be an expensive item. If you do not collect full panes and just want to mount a pair, just remove it and replace it with another blank page to take its place. Or if you are going to use the page just mount a pair only, centered on a piece of blank page just big enough to cover image below.

Then Mount it with clear corners and or a couple minute drops of hawdid mount glue to keep it from moving. It can always be removed later in order to put in a full pane if desired.

How about actually answering the OP's question? The Scott National provides a whole page for Scott 3138, which is to be mounted as a single item, the pane of 9 serpentine die cut 11 joined to the imperf single within its min-sheet.

My Scott National album has a page for the entire Bugs Bunny "Serpentine Die cut 11" sheet and another page for the "Serpentine Die Cut 11, Extends Through Backing Paper, Imperforate." Two sheets, two pages. But nowhere is there any space provided for single stamps.

I've never understood this type of collecting, myself, preferring to mount individual stamps. The collecting of entire sheets or sheetlets, or whatever they're called, like these creates a much larger hurdle for some collectors that I'd prefer Scott not create. If there were only a few such stamps collected in these mini-sheets, that would be one thing, but the flood of these sheets in the last few decades is too much. When I started collecting as a child in the 1950s, you saved one 3¢ commemorative each time they came out. Can you imagine if your album required you to save 20 stamps as a "sheetlet"? I doubt most young collectors would have continued to collect if that were the case.

I haven't quite decided what to do with such stamps. Most of the last 30 years in my National album are still empty because I've devoted so much time to my worldwide albums. I may remove all sheetlet pages and add blank or quadrille pages with single stamps on them wherever possible. Unless I can think of a good reason not to. It's just modern U.S. stamps and they will never be worth much, so it may not matter at all.

I understand both what DrewM says and why there are full pane pages in the National Album.

Is it more expensive to maintain the full panes as they come out? Absolutely.

I personally like the full panes and even collect earlier issues in blocks as well as singles.

At the end of the day, collect what and how you enjoy and don't worry about what others think!

I have never seen Scott 3138 sold in any other form other than the full miniature sheet. My Mystic album wants the whole miniature sheet mounted. And most people that collect these stamps (The Bugs Bunny imperf goes for $100 on ebay these days), usually keep the miniature sheet.

In 2018 Mystic wanted you to mount the whole Scooby Doo miniature sheet AND a single. I don't understand WHY you would want to do both of them.

They did something similar for Legends of Hollywood. I can see a method to their scheme if you could remove the page with the mini-sheet but then you lose the description information on the left side of the subsequent page.

That's kind of the reason I like having descriptions on the same side with the stamps. Then you can pick and choose which pages you want to keep.

Another piece of the puzzle which drives this double entry (single stamp and pane) is our psychological need for completion.

How many collectors, even if it is only subliminally, wouldn't feel a bit of tension knowing that they have the pane, but that there year set of singles is incomplete because the single from the pane is not included?

Just something to consider...

My Scott Minuteman does the same.