Page 387 is the Postal Service Employees. It took some tinkering to get the 10 stamps to stay together, but I pulled something off that’s not too ugly.
If you’re using your own paper, grab this PDF: Mystic Page 387
If you’re using Mystic’s paper, grab this PDF: Mystic Page 387 – Mystic Paper
If you want to modify the page yourself, grab the Scribus source file here: Mystic Page 387
The page looks like this:
Who would want to take their beautiful Universal Postal Union Se-Tenant and break it up into individual stamps. Well, now you don’t have to!
If you’re using your own paper, grab this PDF: Mystic Page 395
If you’re using Mystic blank pages, grab this PDF: Mystic Page 395-Mystic Paper
If you want to modify the pages yourself, then grab this ZIP file containing the Scribus file and the images: Mystic Page 395 Hack
This is what the page looks like:
I hope someone finds this useful.
I’ve written a python script for Scribus that is going to make cranking out pages a LOT easier. But, one tedious manual step still remains. And that’s converting the images to black and white.
Since the Tryzub pages have color on the top, I think I still need to convert images to black and white. For any other hacks going forward, the stamp images will be in color. Most printer drivers have the option to print in black and white. I see no reason to go through the effort of converting images to black and white, when your printer driver can do it for you.
I have managed to acquire Scott Minuteman supplements from 2000 through 2006 for $8.00 or less each!
So, my Heirloom hacking will most definitely end at 1999. There are just way too many pages to redesign from 2000 on.
I bought the 2011 Minuteman supplement from my local dealer and I didn’t have to modify a single page to get the stamps to lay out the way I want them to. The Heirloom 2011 supplement required me to modify HALF the pages.
I just don’t have the time….
As I go through the Mystic pages from 2000 on, it looks like it’s going to be next to impossible to redesign all the pages I need for the 2000s, so I think I am going to end my hack of the Heirloom at 1999 and start using another album for 2000 onward. Right now I am leaning toward the Scott Minuteman album, since it has the descriptions I am looking for.
Sadly, the Minuteman Album is very UNHACKABLE, since the pages are bigger than 8.5″x11″. But the layout is almost exactly what I want. So, there is almost no hacking that I need to do.
I’ll try and post some low res comparisons so you can see what I am talking about.
And the last one for today.
Page 667 is the Legends of Rock and Roll booklet. Mystic’s page 667 has it broken up into individual stamps. I like my se-tenants connected.
The page will let you mount a full strip of eight stamps, even though that means Elvis repeats on the bottom.
Your Paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page%20667%20Hack.pdf
Mystic Paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page%20667%20Hack%20-%20Mystic%20Paper.pdf
Enjoy!
I’m mounting 1991-1992 stamps and, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why Mystic feels the need to break up a perfectly good se-tenant. So in order to get the stamps I had mounted I needed to go hack pages. So, here we go:
Page 627 Hack – hacked to keep the Comedian se-tenant together.
Plain paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page_627_Hack.pdf
Mystic Paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page_627_Hack-Mystic%20Paper.pdf
Page 629 Hack – hacked to keep the Space Exploration 10 stamp se-tenant together
Plain paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page_629_Hack.pdf
Mystic Paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Page_629_Hack-Mystic%20Paper.pdf
Page 649 Hack – hacked to keep the Summer Olympics se-tenant together
Plain paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Mystic%20Page%20649%20Hack.pdf
Mystic Paper: http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Mystic%20Page%20649%20Hack%20-%20Mystic%20Paper.pdf
ENJOY!
And we continue to clean up the Mystic 2011 Supplement. Page 1268 modified to keep the Lady Liberty and US Flag together.
If you have Mystic Paper, grab it from here:
If you have your own paper, grab this file:
http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Mystic%20Page%201268%20Hack.pdf
And here comes another one. Page 1252 takes the Se-tenant Lady Liberty/US Flag and separates them. I don’t believe in breaking up Se-tenants. So, I hacked a page to get out of the problem.
If you’re using your own paper, grab the file here:
http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Mystic%20Page%201252%20Hack.pdf
If you have blank Mystic paper, grab this one:
Enjoy!
Page 1186.6 contains the 2011 Flags of Our Nations stamps. And, Mystic wants you to split the stamps into individual stamps, which I didn’t want to do. I prefer to mount them as two strips of 5. So, here is the drop in replacement that will allow you to do that.
If you’re using your own paper, please go here:
http://www.stamphacks.com/files/mystic_stamp_album_hacks/Mystic%20Page%201186.6%20Hack.pdf
If you’re using Mystic paper, go here: