This tool allows you to enter the stamp mount height you are interested in and it returns all major mount manufacturer (Scott/Prinz, Showgard, Lighthouse, Hawid, and Uni-Safe ) part numbers, dimensions, description, pack size, and price.
Feedback welcome. Note: I am still adding images for a few of the mounts. If anyone has images of the missing ones and can contribute them please post in this thread.
Also coming soon, 'stamp mount lookup' for any US stamp by Scott number.
Don
Don, THANK YOU for this extremely useful tool! We all will benefit from your hard work. I look forward to using the US stamp mount lookup tool as well.
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Note: I only have mount database loaded for Scott numbers #1 through #1419. If you select a Scott number higher than 1419 it will return ‘Mount data not loaded yet!” message.
I am showing mounts that match on height and any ‘greater than and or equal to’ width. This captures the precut mounts and the strips; it should be assumed that wider lengths (strips) will have to be trimmed.
It also contains ‘album dimensions’. These are useful for folks who design their own album pages; you can use these dimensions to draw the boxes on any US album page for that Scott number.
Obviously this is still under development but this means that any suggestions for improvement are easier to design in. Please feel free to offer input. In the meantime, I will continue to populate the mount dimension database. It will probably take me a few more weeks to get all US stamp done.
Don
That is very impressive Don. I can see you have put an awful lot of work into this, and I am sure it will be much appreciated by an many, many collectors.
Thank you for making it available to us all.
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 04 Mar 2017 07:17:52pm
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Thank you Benque. This has not been as much work as the US plate number database which has over 57,000 plate numbers loaded in it! In fact, since I already had all the US stamp (including Back Of Book) represented with the US Plate Block Tool and the PopUp catalogs for all US and Canadian stamps this effort has not been too bad.
Special thanks go to those who have contributed images and to my wife and best friend Dawn, who has also done a lot of the data entry.
Don
RICHMOND FC PREMIERS 2017, 2019 18 Jun 2017 05:19:22am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Not sure if anyone can help but I am Finding it difficult to use the site as I get a horrible black bar across the screen and unable to scroll down Tried to photograph on iPad but it will not let me upload photograph
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 18 Jun 2017 06:49:30am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Good Day,
I may be able to assist. Which iPad browser are you using and what version is it?
If you are unsure of the browser type and version you can simply click on the link below and it will identify this information for you. Browser Info
Don
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 18 Jun 2017 08:09:39am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Hi Richmond,
The site is html5 compatible and some of the early versions of iPad did not support html5. So knowing your browser version will help see if this is the issue or not.
I am sending you an email so we can better communicate on this issue.
Don
RICHMOND FC PREMIERS 2017, 2019 02 Sep 2017 11:00:02am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Don
With reference the reference tool I note, as far as I can see, that the sizing does not take into account the actual mount height.
For example if I select 29mm it will bring up the 29mm mount from Lighthouse but I know for a fact that Lighthouse mounts are actually 4mm deeper than the size shown on the label, i.e. they are in fact 33mm.
Is the '4mm' extra standard for all manufacturers mounts? meaning if I require a mount that is actually 29mm deep I could select 25mm?
I actually possess the whole suite of standard lighthouse mounts but I need to order special mounts for plate blocks and I would like to order these in confidence as they are quite pricey.
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 02 Sep 2017 11:22:59am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Hi Richmond,
Yes, the tool uses the millimeters that the manufacturer uses for identification and reflects what is printed on the package to avoid confusion and to be consistent across each manufacturer. But as you state, the actual physical dimension of the mounts are larger, it accounts for a few millimeters of the sealed part of the mount at the top and bottom.
I THINK that the 4 mm you see is fairly standard across the board. But this has to be verified, I only looked at 3 of the manufacturers and do not have every size.
If you are willing to supply the actual physical dimensions of each of the Showguards I will add a new field to the database to display this info. Otherwise i will put this on my list of things to do.
Don
RICHMOND FC PREMIERS 2017, 2019 03 Sep 2017 01:14:39am
re: Stamp Mount Cross Reference Tool
Hi Don
Here are the physical dimensions of the whole suite of 217mm strips for the Lighthouse range
My view is that Lighthouse may have confused things and not taken into account
there are those that use pre-printed album pages (I use Lighthouse and Steiner)
there are those who design their own album pages
there are those who purchase blank quadrille pages and do their own thing.
The Lighthouse referencing system as far as I can see only applies to the third group - its based on proving 4mm all around for a stamp of x height (excluding perforations) .
Groups one and two are trying to find mounts which fit neatly into pre-printed boxes on the album pages and thus the Lighthouse referencing system becomes redundant.
This is why I am struggling with establishing what sort of mounts I need to purchase for miniature sheets. I know the size I want but cannot confidently convert this size into an off the shelf product and order. This is where I was hoping your tool would have helped me
I am happy to post or email scans of the cardboard strips if you wanted to verify my measurements (this is the cardboard strip at the back which is a replica of the mounts not the label at the front which is larger than the mounts)