Water Soakable? Fairly modern stamps from Ireland on paper

nick2302

Thanks for your post.  As you have not uploaded an image of the stamps in question, we can only guess that when you state "fairly modern," you are most likely referring to self-adhesive stamps?  If so, I was able to find this thread in another online stamp community, which does have some images of stamps of Ireland:

stampbears.net/thread/5739/when-soak-stamps

It appears that at least some Ireland self-adhesives are not water soakable, similar to US self-adhesives.  Our most knowledgeable member on Ireland on TSF is probably Terri (philatelia), so I will tag her, but she is currently having health issues, so I don't know if she will be able to respond quickly.  I will also tag khj, who is the leader of the other stamp community, in case he can offer further advice.

Hope this helps a little.

Ireland SOAR (Stamps on a roll)  

Ideal example of identifying one's personal ability to jump the difficult journey, to begin to collect  adhered postage stamps.
After several failed attempts to remove paper backing, one has to bite the bullet and clip around the stamp.

Stamps on a roll  Mint   as issued  (Not Mine)



My stamps,  left on piece and digitally cropped near to borders.

Hi all - feeling a bit better but it’s episodic. Getting a slight reprieve this morning, but can’t move my head too much

SOARS do not soak. I’ve seen a few removed by chemicals but they look faded and very few people manage to get a good result. They are generally collected on piece. The unsoakable Ireland started with a few flower definitives. As far as I know all recent self adhesives do NOT soak. Again, just leave them on piece. Look at it this way - the mint self adhesives MUST be left on their backing, so best to acceopt that used copies will mirror them

Certainly, with some.
The "Goldcrest" stamp, has a familiar knife cut (die cut)  that identifies it as being produced in Australia  (Printec?)

These are (or can be)  soakable ,  ie left in water for some time (10 mins?)  the stamp face separates  with white  mucusey  glue
the remaining stamp paper is very thin.

I personally do not like it, the success rate is haphazard,  as is with using  bestine  ("Undo")

I clip around all mine now and leave a 2-3mm edge around the perfs.
It is not ideal,  but perhaps "best practice"

The other knife shapes, I have no opinion. (ex: The Clown)
I can post Aussie Printed knife shapes tomorrow.

Since 1984, An Post has issued all Irish postage stamps.
Most have been printed by Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd.,
though a small number were printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd., (London),
Questa, Walsall Security Printing,

Prinset Pty Ltd., (Australia) and SNP Cambec (Sprintpak) (Australia).

SNP = Singapore National Printers