P3D Aussie slide mounts

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding those tape-shut cardboard mounts from down-under...that
we aren't supposed to mention the name of their maker...and which
I have mentioned in the past as having problems with the right-side
vertical edge of the apertures:

I have once again had the good fortune to be on the receiving end
of some beautiful loaner slides made by P3D's David Kesner.  Today
I took the opportunity to carefully study the quality of 20 cardboard
mounts used by David (a vocal proponent of these Aussie mounts).  I
found that only 2 of those 20 mounts had the jagged edge syndrome
that plagues all of my current supply of those same mounts.  I was
also astonished to note the amazing crispness of the vertical edges
of the window apertures in the vast majority of those 20 mounts.  I
would never have believed that such crispness was possible in a
cardboard mount.

Clearly, then, the jagged edge problem is not universally present
in these cardboard mounts.  It must be just my usual good luck
that I have many hundreds of the jagged-edge mounts.  They *are*
worth 1000s of times "face value" for the rare minting error, right?--
like the double-struck pennies??  (reference to a famous mistake
by the U.S. mint, circa 1972, for those outside the U.S.)

Paul Talbot


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