All seems fine, as far as I can tell. I checked, with an avvie that hadn't yet completed the sparklies, and she was able to collect the August sparklie in the Gehn shard without problems (and complete the set )
It took a good full day to have the sparkly. I didn't get hold of the age book prior to yesterday, maybe that explains this or someone tweaked something in the server seeing my bug report.
Everything's fine now. I still have to wait until October 1st to get my last missing sparkly on Gehn Shard. I'm done with it on Deep Island since yesterday