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I asked the sender about the sticky tape and was told that it was ASDA approved and to just scrape off the goo.
Needless to say, I returned the whole sticky mess. Wouldn’t you? Was this type of tape really approved by the ASDA?
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I wouldn't buy any stamp with take on it.
There's that 3M tape that's supposed to be the "Dennison" of tape. However, I have seen stamps mounted in APS sales books, and there is a residue when you take the tape off the stamp. The stamps are called "MNH", but I don't accept that. Also, wiping off the "goo" can result in fingerprints and scratches on the gum. Sellers still call that "MNH". I don't buy it.
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WOW! Someone used this stuff on MNH? Ugh!
We've all seen stamps that have scotch tape stains - where the tape oozed into the paper and made it somewhat translucent, right? Well, this tape appears to do the same ugly thing when heated or compressed. Several of the stamps in that packet were stained in that way.
I'm surprised that the APS accepted circuit books mounted using this tape, Michael.
We need a time machine to go back and buy a massive supply of Classic Dennison hinges to bring back to 2020. LOL
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As a stamp dealer (bricks and mortar, no less), we have seen, and have been offered collections with this so-called "magic tape". We do not buy the stamps. No matter what some bright-light says, it does leave a residue and ruins the stamp. I can just imagine what the collection will look like in ten years.
Anybody using tape anywhere near a stamp album needs his or her head examined.
David Giles
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Chris Green Stamps
151-D Second Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
K1S 2H6
Canada
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Theresa, back when use of the tape was prevalent, I talked to Tom Horn then head of the APS Sales Division about this. He looked into it, and decided to notify the members who were using the tape to stop. I am not receiving that many circuits anymore. The ones that I have received do not have any books with stamps mounted with the tape.
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I've seen tape used in albums occasionally - not a pretty sight and reduces the price, in my opinion, to Zero. Usually it is an older person cleaning up (?) a spouses collection before auction. The person is totally ignorant of the hobby and either licks the mint stamps that are falling out or uses glue or tape. It doesn't happen often but it still happens. I also read somewhere that in the early days of the hobby ( pre-hinge era) that stamps were commonly mounted with glue. Is there truth to this, or is it another urban myth? Right up there with the story about the "little old lady" fixing up her dead husbands Canada collection for sale and taping in the Jubilee set because it was falling out. You often hear the story, but is it really true? Who knows?
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Ugh! A few years ago I bought a complete set of 1940 Famous Americans plate blocks on eBay. They were on nice album pages, all in mounts, listed as all MNH with a few pages shown to represent the whole set. Looked good.
When they arrived it became evident that the collector from years ago had made his own mounts from clear report covers and neatly taped the edges with scotch tape.. the old shiny stuff. The home made mounts were attached to the pages with tape loops. These had deteriorated over the years. The tape loops had bled through the back of the pages, but worse, the tape on the edges of the mounts had bled into the mount and onto the perforated edges of the blocks, totally ruining them.
I immediately contacted the seller, who no doubt had hoped a buyer wouldn’t notice. He argued a bit, but I mailed the mess back to him for a refund.
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It's amazing what tape can do. When I started collecting many years ago I used clear crystal mounting tubes for my souvenir sheets and blocks. The stamps slid into the tube, you cut the tube to fit, removed a covering at the back top and put it into your album. Sometimes the stamps would slip out as pages were turned co I stuck tiny pieces of Scotch tape at the ends of the tube. No damage was done to the stamps but the glue from the tape after a period of time leeched through the album page leaving small ugly stains. No damage was done but the stains remind me the damage that tape could do to stamps! To me a stamp with tape or tape stains has no value at all!
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I mentioned a while back, in a different thread, that I had purchased a collection of used Singapore on pages. The stamps were mounted in Crystal Mounts. The collector who mounted them apparently found that the Crystal Mounts didn't hold the stamps in place and so he / she used rubber cement to adhere the stamps to the mounts. Now that was a real mess.
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I recently received some stamps in a trade packet that had a double sided tape on the backs. Because of the summer heat, the adhesive softened and many of the stamps were stuck together in a gooey mess. Several had previously had the tape removed from them thus leaving pronounced thins.
I asked the sender about the sticky tape and was told that it was ASDA approved and to just scrape off the goo. Needless to say, I returned the whole sticky mess. Wouldn’t you?
Was this type of tape really approved by the ASDA?
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re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
I wouldn't buy any stamp with take on it.
There's that 3M tape that's supposed to be the "Dennison" of tape. However, I have seen stamps mounted in APS sales books, and there is a residue when you take the tape off the stamp. The stamps are called "MNH", but I don't accept that. Also, wiping off the "goo" can result in fingerprints and scratches on the gum. Sellers still call that "MNH". I don't buy it.
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re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
WOW! Someone used this stuff on MNH? Ugh!
We've all seen stamps that have scotch tape stains - where the tape oozed into the paper and made it somewhat translucent, right? Well, this tape appears to do the same ugly thing when heated or compressed. Several of the stamps in that packet were stained in that way.
I'm surprised that the APS accepted circuit books mounted using this tape, Michael.
We need a time machine to go back and buy a massive supply of Classic Dennison hinges to bring back to 2020. LOL
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re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
As a stamp dealer (bricks and mortar, no less), we have seen, and have been offered collections with this so-called "magic tape". We do not buy the stamps. No matter what some bright-light says, it does leave a residue and ruins the stamp. I can just imagine what the collection will look like in ten years.
Anybody using tape anywhere near a stamp album needs his or her head examined.
David Giles
Retail Manager
Chris Green Stamps
151-D Second Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
K1S 2H6
Canada
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11:30:58pm
re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
Theresa, back when use of the tape was prevalent, I talked to Tom Horn then head of the APS Sales Division about this. He looked into it, and decided to notify the members who were using the tape to stop. I am not receiving that many circuits anymore. The ones that I have received do not have any books with stamps mounted with the tape.
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22 Aug 2020
09:00:55am
re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
I've seen tape used in albums occasionally - not a pretty sight and reduces the price, in my opinion, to Zero. Usually it is an older person cleaning up (?) a spouses collection before auction. The person is totally ignorant of the hobby and either licks the mint stamps that are falling out or uses glue or tape. It doesn't happen often but it still happens. I also read somewhere that in the early days of the hobby ( pre-hinge era) that stamps were commonly mounted with glue. Is there truth to this, or is it another urban myth? Right up there with the story about the "little old lady" fixing up her dead husbands Canada collection for sale and taping in the Jubilee set because it was falling out. You often hear the story, but is it really true? Who knows?
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re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
Ugh! A few years ago I bought a complete set of 1940 Famous Americans plate blocks on eBay. They were on nice album pages, all in mounts, listed as all MNH with a few pages shown to represent the whole set. Looked good.
When they arrived it became evident that the collector from years ago had made his own mounts from clear report covers and neatly taped the edges with scotch tape.. the old shiny stuff. The home made mounts were attached to the pages with tape loops. These had deteriorated over the years. The tape loops had bled through the back of the pages, but worse, the tape on the edges of the mounts had bled into the mount and onto the perforated edges of the blocks, totally ruining them.
I immediately contacted the seller, who no doubt had hoped a buyer wouldn’t notice. He argued a bit, but I mailed the mess back to him for a refund.
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22 Aug 2020
12:08:49pm
re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
It's amazing what tape can do. When I started collecting many years ago I used clear crystal mounting tubes for my souvenir sheets and blocks. The stamps slid into the tube, you cut the tube to fit, removed a covering at the back top and put it into your album. Sometimes the stamps would slip out as pages were turned co I stuck tiny pieces of Scotch tape at the ends of the tube. No damage was done to the stamps but the glue from the tape after a period of time leeched through the album page leaving small ugly stains. No damage was done but the stains remind me the damage that tape could do to stamps! To me a stamp with tape or tape stains has no value at all!
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re: ASDA recommended the use of TAPE for hinges? ? ?
I mentioned a while back, in a different thread, that I had purchased a collection of used Singapore on pages. The stamps were mounted in Crystal Mounts. The collector who mounted them apparently found that the Crystal Mounts didn't hold the stamps in place and so he / she used rubber cement to adhere the stamps to the mounts. Now that was a real mess.
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