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07:05:29pm
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Harvey, you answered your own question. The acid from the tape is on the sheets/stamps. Next to impossible to get rid of it. Also, if you put the sheets in mounts, the acid will be on the mounts. I'd suggest replacing the mounts when you replace the sheets.
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@Harvey
I think they are worthless going by your description of them.
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10:02:40pm
Nothing in this world is totally worthless, they'll hold the place in the album until I get around to replacing them. They are very cheap!! And, best of all, I learned a lesson - sometimes that can be beyond value. A mistake is occasionally a good thing if we learn from it!!
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10:44:57pm
"I'd suggest replacing the mounts when you replace the sheets."
I'd planned to do that anyway. The stains are so small and light that they're almost impossible to see. I do know they are there and when they eventually show up here I'll replace them. Until then they don't really bother me and are there to teach me a lesson!
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How much would you spend to buy these damaged souvenir sheets?
It use to be a common custom (in my experience) damaged stamps would sell at 10% of catalog!
So would damaged souvenir sheets and in addition have acid from the tape you used, going to affect the value, I don't think they are worth any thing.
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02:03:02pm
I agree with you, they are worth nothing. But they are only worth a couple dollars each anyway and I will replace them. Meanwhile they are just filling the three pages they are on and I'll throw them out later. This wasn't really mainly meant to be about the three sheets, I just wanted to make sure people knew the damage Scotch tape could do.
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You say they are souvenir sheets. Can the stamps from the sheets be salvaged? You'll then have that.
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And I have discovered that the Lighthouse album for the USA in particular has album spaces for the individual stamps from the souvenir pages so they do have value if they are unaffected.
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01:23:35pm
My problem is that my US collection is complete from 1924 to my cutoff of 1977!! It's not a big deal, I'll replace the couple small souvenir sheets and it'll only cost a couple dollars each. And there's no rush, eventually they'll be offered by someone here! Here's the funny part. I was telling someone about the couple small tape stains in the album that I had to be careful to keep everything away from them. You'll never guess what she said, and I'm not making this up!! She said "put a little bit of tape over them"!!
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" She said "put a little bit of tape over them"!!"
3M does make an acid free, photo-safe tape under the brand name Scotch Create. It conforms to ISO standard 18916.
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I once bought an entire set of US 1940 Famous Americans plate blocks on eBay. They were all on fancy album pages, I was excited to get them. They looked fine until I went to remove them from the pages. Some enterprising collector made his own clear mounts from report covers and had scotch taped the edges! And of course it had bled onto the perfs of nearly every block.
The seller was less than cooperative. He no doubt knew the issue from disassembling the whole album. He argued that they weren't that bad. I paid to send them back and did signature required return receipt because I didn't trust him at all!
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23 Jun 2023
07:05:29pm
Years ago before I knew better I used small bits of tape to keep souvenir sheets from not sliding out of the awful clear crystal mounting I had at the time. I now have a couple of these sheets with very small tape stains on the extreme edges. I have since remounted these items in much safer mounting. They have minimal value anyway so it's not a huge worry since I will replace them soon. But, just out of curiosity. what happens to the value of these sheets? If I were to ever sell them I would use the used price. Does this seem reasonable? Hint to any newer collectors reading this. NEVER use Scotch tape anywhere in a stamp book!! I've seen cases where Scotch tape stains go totally through the page of the album and affect items on the next page - DEADLY STUFF!!! I was also at an antique auction once where a stamp album was one of the items being auctioned. The person getting items ready for the auction knew nothing about stamps and he taped the loose stamps to the pages. I informed the auctioneer that those stamps, some quite good items, had almost no value now. He was very pissed!!! It was an auction of older Canada material and was now ruined!
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08:08:06pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
Harvey, you answered your own question. The acid from the tape is on the sheets/stamps. Next to impossible to get rid of it. Also, if you put the sheets in mounts, the acid will be on the mounts. I'd suggest replacing the mounts when you replace the sheets.
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08:42:54pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
@Harvey
I think they are worthless going by your description of them.
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23 Jun 2023
10:02:40pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
Nothing in this world is totally worthless, they'll hold the place in the album until I get around to replacing them. They are very cheap!! And, best of all, I learned a lesson - sometimes that can be beyond value. A mistake is occasionally a good thing if we learn from it!!
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23 Jun 2023
10:44:57pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
"I'd suggest replacing the mounts when you replace the sheets."
I'd planned to do that anyway. The stains are so small and light that they're almost impossible to see. I do know they are there and when they eventually show up here I'll replace them. Until then they don't really bother me and are there to teach me a lesson!
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11:33:28am
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
@Harvey
How much would you spend to buy these damaged souvenir sheets?
It use to be a common custom (in my experience) damaged stamps would sell at 10% of catalog!
So would damaged souvenir sheets and in addition have acid from the tape you used, going to affect the value, I don't think they are worth any thing.
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24 Jun 2023
02:03:02pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
I agree with you, they are worth nothing. But they are only worth a couple dollars each anyway and I will replace them. Meanwhile they are just filling the three pages they are on and I'll throw them out later. This wasn't really mainly meant to be about the three sheets, I just wanted to make sure people knew the damage Scotch tape could do.
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12:30:19am
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
You say they are souvenir sheets. Can the stamps from the sheets be salvaged? You'll then have that.
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re: What do small tape stains do to value?
And I have discovered that the Lighthouse album for the USA in particular has album spaces for the individual stamps from the souvenir pages so they do have value if they are unaffected.
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25 Jun 2023
01:23:35pm
re: What do small tape stains do to value?
My problem is that my US collection is complete from 1924 to my cutoff of 1977!! It's not a big deal, I'll replace the couple small souvenir sheets and it'll only cost a couple dollars each. And there's no rush, eventually they'll be offered by someone here! Here's the funny part. I was telling someone about the couple small tape stains in the album that I had to be careful to keep everything away from them. You'll never guess what she said, and I'm not making this up!! She said "put a little bit of tape over them"!!
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re: What do small tape stains do to value?
" She said "put a little bit of tape over them"!!"
3M does make an acid free, photo-safe tape under the brand name Scotch Create. It conforms to ISO standard 18916.
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re: What do small tape stains do to value?
I once bought an entire set of US 1940 Famous Americans plate blocks on eBay. They were all on fancy album pages, I was excited to get them. They looked fine until I went to remove them from the pages. Some enterprising collector made his own clear mounts from report covers and had scotch taped the edges! And of course it had bled onto the perfs of nearly every block.
The seller was less than cooperative. He no doubt knew the issue from disassembling the whole album. He argued that they weren't that bad. I paid to send them back and did signature required return receipt because I didn't trust him at all!
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