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Post by thenewguy on Feb 25, 2024 20:25:32 GMT
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,843
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Feb 25, 2024 20:34:54 GMT
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Feb 25, 2024 21:05:34 GMT
I hesitated to “like” your post, but wanted to commiserate. Always a sad sight to see. I tell myself when a stuck together clump of stamps shows up in a box lot that I’d feel a whole lot worse if they were Columbians or something similar. At least you have all us forum friends here who can relate and that always helps.
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rod222
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Posts: 11,047
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Feb 25, 2024 23:36:00 GMT
Looks like you have a cigar band in that lot.
Place in a bowl of cold water, be patient, repeat, be patient (only do a few at a time) Save what you can as they float off, although many seem stained.
40% of my Indo China arrived similarly, all were rescued, sans gum of course.
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Post by nick2302 on Feb 26, 2024 1:57:36 GMT
Been there - done that. I have had to toss stamps that literally were turning into dust. I try very hard to keep as many survivors as possible. But when paper is improperly stored it is bad odds the stamps will be in tack.
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angore
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Posts: 5,699
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Feb 26, 2024 11:26:33 GMT
I was going through a collection this past week and the collector used paper clips (yes those metal ones) to bundle stamps!
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Post by thenewguy on Feb 26, 2024 14:48:14 GMT
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