Post by nick2302 on Feb 2, 2024 15:45:37 GMT
Over the past year I have acquired a large fat envelope of stamps on paper. So, the natural next step would be to get the stamps off paper. Ahh so easily said so difficult to accomplish. The problems abound with this process. We had a nice balmy day the other day and so I went out to the patio with confidence carrying a can of citrus orange. I managed to get a few stamps off paper, but the backing was still incredibly sticky. So, I decided to give the stamps a swim in Stamp Life, to tame the impossible glue the USPO uses. The stamps I did get off with Citrus Orange were very tacky on the back side. So I laid them on a stock card while I went and got Stamp Life and whatever other things I needed. The stamps I set aside for a Stamp Life bath were totally stuck on the stock card.
As my attempts to use Orange Citrus was met with great whining and moaning from the family about how the whole house smelled. I literally brought the stamps in from the patio and went straight to the stamp room. Yet according to the family I left a stinky trail in the house. So okay I decided Citrus Orange was not going to work there were just too many problems.
I prepared a bowl with about a half bottle of Stamp Lift and started to get stamps ready for the bath. Oh swell, another issue reared its ugly head. Some envelopes had both modern stamps with killer glue and older stamps that would come off with water mixed on the same piece of paper. Unfortunately for me they were put on the envelope without so much as a hair distance apart. So there was no way to trim the older stamps off without ruining at least one of the stamps potentially more.
I am wondering how much effort other stamp collectors would accept if I had stamps neatly trimmed and used them as trading material. Have other stamp collectors when acquiring modern USPO stamps that have been fused to the envelope or package had success with this mare's nest of issues to resolve. Would you accept a nicely preserved modern stamp on paper as decent trading material with the backing snipped off as closely as practical? Would you add said stamps to your collection?
As my attempts to use Orange Citrus was met with great whining and moaning from the family about how the whole house smelled. I literally brought the stamps in from the patio and went straight to the stamp room. Yet according to the family I left a stinky trail in the house. So okay I decided Citrus Orange was not going to work there were just too many problems.
I prepared a bowl with about a half bottle of Stamp Lift and started to get stamps ready for the bath. Oh swell, another issue reared its ugly head. Some envelopes had both modern stamps with killer glue and older stamps that would come off with water mixed on the same piece of paper. Unfortunately for me they were put on the envelope without so much as a hair distance apart. So there was no way to trim the older stamps off without ruining at least one of the stamps potentially more.
I am wondering how much effort other stamp collectors would accept if I had stamps neatly trimmed and used them as trading material. Have other stamp collectors when acquiring modern USPO stamps that have been fused to the envelope or package had success with this mare's nest of issues to resolve. Would you accept a nicely preserved modern stamp on paper as decent trading material with the backing snipped off as closely as practical? Would you add said stamps to your collection?
