stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 14, 2023 23:20:26 GMT
Back from the local show. Good attendance! Tomorrow should be busier. I worked the club "make an offer" table- lots of older albums, some with stamps (not full but some0 and others cleaned. Including several Albums with the page packet unopened and never placed int he binder. Unfortunately, nothing of interest to me (maybe that is fortunate) but we cleared out a lot of 'stuff' that put smiles on the happy browsers/buyers faces! Only had one refusal of the offer. penny a page for manilla stock cards. Gentlemen had a handful but didn't want to count and only wanted to pay 50 cents - there was easily over a hundred pages, a stack close to 6-7 inches!
He left in a huff!?! Oh well, everyone else seemed happy campers, and the money benefits the club. It was somewhat comical.... a lady at the table looked on, called him an old gruff and proceeded to count th estock sheets 131! We let her have em all for a buck, just because!
and I even saw a couple of young people!!!!!!
Back home I was motivated to finalize another page for France. I will let it sit overnight and 'proof" it tomorrow before printing out on vellum.
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mberry
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What I collect: USA, USA Revenues, Beer Related Stamps and Revenues, US State Revenues, Stamp Show Stamps
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Post by mberry on Apr 15, 2023 2:51:01 GMT
I scanned and posted a few pics of the US State Bird and Flowers issues on the postmark calendar thread. Today is the anniversary of their release in 1982. I have the full set but did not post them all, likely would have been overload for some.
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Mr. H
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Post by Mr. H on Apr 15, 2023 13:50:43 GMT
Down to the last shoebox of stamps from the foreign tub. Feels like its taking forever to make some progress, as it's mostly small definitives. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so maybe I'll be able to get it done, but today I'll be cleaning up the garage and bring out the summer furniture.
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 15, 2023 19:52:07 GMT
Spent part of the day at the Swimming Pool - Denise (wife) swam in 4 events (Masters competition) and I had to go encourage her - so the only stamping, besides reading posts on TSF (!) was changing my bid on a nice Newfoundland lot, which you will see if I win.......CV +++++(over 1K)..... not giving you any details so you will not be able to overbid me hahahahahah !! LOL
René
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Apr 15, 2023 20:27:47 GMT
End of a two day event , the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies’ annual Congress , the 92nd, saw me installed as the President for the 93rd in April 2024.
100 mile drive home with chain of office and a tonne of associated stuff . I am exhausted . Sort out prize winners for the Grand National race sweepstake, Dinner from the freezer and a couple of glasses of wine, a quick look at my purchases at the show then an early night.
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Post by carabop on Apr 16, 2023 0:56:37 GMT
No stamps today. Went to a coin show with my husband. I don’t collect coins but I look around while hubby is buying his coins. Today I spoke to a coin dealer that his mother and grandmother were stamp collectors. When they passed he inherited both collections. He was telling me that he had sold the albums but still had sheets of stamps from 4 cents to 20 cents with a face value of 16 thousand. Now that’s a lot of sheets of stamps. And I won the gold coin they had a raffle for.
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eggdog
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Post by eggdog on Apr 16, 2023 22:58:47 GMT
I finished going through three or four ounces of kiloware from Ghana, and found postmarks from a bunch of places: It's not quite what I wanted. Paint Shop Pro's process for applying text labels onto images doesn't strike me as very smooth, and I couldn't place either the dots or the labels as precisely as one would like. And they wouldn't let me go below 8 points for the text. But it's pretty accurate, I think. And I'm sure that part of it is that I'm near the perigee of the learning curve. (In other technological news, I'm trying out one of those curvy "ergonomic keyboards", and I think I don't like it. So any mistakes in this post are, of course, not my fault.) I don't know yet if I'll actually collect Ghanaian stamps. Like many countries, they overissued like mad for a long time. Many of the designs are attractive and have local interest, but artistic inspiration can be hit or miss. I might pick out a few series. Or I might just go for it. I mean, I didn't walk across the street to get any stamps from Ghana, and I ended up with three or four ounces, so it may not be that difficult to assemble a reasonable collection. It's an interesting place, too. I can't collect everything, but sometimes I wish I could.
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TimG
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Post by TimG on Apr 17, 2023 0:50:18 GMT
I just finished soaking a few Canadian stamps off paper - very rewarding! Put them between a couple of pieces of paper towel and their weighed down with a couple of old hymnals and a brick.
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Post by uppercanadian on Apr 17, 2023 1:24:36 GMT
Mounting my GDR collection on album sheets designed by the late, Peter Ware.
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Post by jimwentzell on Apr 17, 2023 2:16:30 GMT
Thursday night was the approximate eight-month (so eighth meeting) of the North Atlanta Stamp Club (NASC) about twenty minutes drive from me. I was one of the "founding members" (#12 I think?) as there was a bourse locally where I was asked to join last year. Post-Covid there were still VERY few actual clubs resuming their "in-person" meetings, so I signed right up! The NASC club meets in Roswell, Georgia (about six miles north of downtown Atlanta) from 7pm to 9pm on the second Thursday of each month. Week nights can be difficult for me with work traffic etc. But since I missed two out of the last four, I figured I should go. There was a good turnout--about twenty members--and always seem to be one or two new members. A lively stamp auction too, probably over sixty total auction lots, most starting bids in the single-digit range (between one and ten US dollars). I picked up about ten lots. How can you go wrong for one dollar, as some started out! One item--which I already had, and should dig out to post a picture of here--was a publication of the American Airmail Society, I believe it was one of their fine publications. " Glider Mail..." since it was shrink-wrapped (brand new) I picked it up for $4.00 (yes only four dollars!) and promptly sold it--today (Sunday) at our sister club meeting, the Cobb County StampClub, of which I recently became president. The Cobb County Stamp Club (CCSC) meets 1:30-3:00pm on the third Sunday of each month (except for Father's Day in June 2023). More information on these and other area stamp clubs can be found at The Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs (of the USA) at www.sefsc.org/stamp-clubsSo the previously-mentioned Glider Mail publication--a smallish but hardbound edition--was sold by me at today's Cobb County Stamp Club auction, for my $4 cost, as I firmly believe in "passing on" philatelic publications to those whose interests intersect with what I have. Someone there was very happy to get a publication originally sold by the American Airmail Society for five or more times the price I paid! One day I will continue Paying Forward some of the philatelic library I've collected over the years.... Some other items received at our club auction for just a dollar or two: (in no particular order) Aden stamps used, some 1910 Germany (with better cancels than what I already have), some stamps from Alouites (a French protectorate, I believe, or part of the Syrian mandate) from a century or so ago; a nice little Schaubek album with many varieties of early India stamps, ca 1900-1920's, which was eight dollars, or about four cents per stamp as there were roughly 200 stamps. Loads of future fun researching types watermarks, town cancels, varieties etc. as some of the work was already started by the previous owner. Also in my "haul" there were some modern US on paper (all for fifty cents, or less than one cent per stamp), for dozens of newer commemoratives that I needed; as a bonus many also had nice circular date stamp cancels (CDS's), which are exceedingly hard to find on modern US material! Another three auction lots consisted mainly of post 1990's "collection remainders" on a total of about a dozen Vario pages, for about the cost of the Vario pages new. So I basically I got the stamps for free. Austria, Italy and Canada will keep me busy with newer mostly postally used post-1990 material, which I am very much lacking. Even a couple nice "Souvenir Sheets" with real cancellations, not soaked from First Day Covers with their tell-tale, fancy First Day cancels.... So basically I will keep busy stamping for a while, at least until next month when the North Atlanta Stamp Club and the Cobb County Stamp Clubs meet again! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = On a somewhat related note I would be remiss if I didn't mention an upcoming, eastern-Atlanta Georgia area stamp bourse: The Spring GwinPex Stamp Show is this coming weekend Fri and Saturday 10-5pm both days. That is Friday and Saturday April 21-22 2023. There will be over a dozen different dealers with probably thirty (30) or more dealer tables. The location is the same as all previous GwinPex shows: Mountain Park UMC Family Life Center
south entrance to the church)
1405 Rockbridge Road,
Stone Mountain, GA 30087 See you around! --Jim
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 17, 2023 4:47:37 GMT
Quiet, Stampy SundayGreetings, stampers everywhere! I hope this post finds you all as well as you can be. After another week of more work than I had planned on, I finally got a day to myself, and I embraced it fully, spending the bulk of the day soaking from a falling-apart, old-time album that I bought when living in Oxford. So, I spent my day sitting at the kitchen table with an adult beverage within reach and the TV tuned to a baseball game, soaking my stamps. There were a couple of really messy pages with lots of stuck-down stamps that I finally decided to tackle today, which included Belgium. I had been putting off doing Belgium, in part because I was concerned about ruining any stamps printed with aniline ink (normally fugitive to water). But I was inspired by a recent request from Stan ( stainlessb) to try to find some Belgian stamps that could be used in his latest soaking project, so I decided to go for it. As virtually all the stamps were completely stuck down on both sides of the page, there was no way to selectively clip out portions of the page without cutting into stamps on the other side, so I just went ahead and soaked the whole thing. Overall, the results weren't too bad. I think there was only one stamp that seemed to fade during soaking, and I pulled it out of the water as soon as I noticed the change. I will check it after press-flattening to see if it was an aniline ink issue or not. There were other stamps with very persistent, adherent bits on the backs, some of which came off cleanly, and some of which did not. In my experience, this is normal in these old, hinged collections. Anyway, it was a relaxing day for me, doing stamps and watching baseball. I also spent some time on The Forum today, catching up on delinquent posts and trying to respond to some other new ones where I thought I could help. It was a fine day by any measure! Stay stampy, all!
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angore
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Post by angore on Apr 17, 2023 11:22:22 GMT
You should use "philatelic" bricks. They cost more but worth it!
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drblade
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What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Apr 17, 2023 13:35:26 GMT
Not much stamping again lately. Finished the house renovations after all. About 3 weeks ago I developed an old "spinal" condition affecting my right shoulder, neck & arm. The resulting pain has been horrendous for the past week even after getting a chiropractors appointment last Friday. I've run out of painkillers & prescriptions are delayed due to the Easter weekend. Been reading posts on the forum but the pain kicks off using my index finger to click on the mouse?? Got a doctors appointment in an hours time. Hopefully things will move on from there. Happy stamping all but not on my arm.
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Mr. H
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Post by Mr. H on Apr 19, 2023 13:29:31 GMT
Finally finished sorting the foreign tub from the Rasdale auction. I'll save the US tub for a later date. I did find a see a few items of interest - some US precancels, perfins (US and foreign), PNCs and line pairs. Also came up with about $50 in US postage, which covers more than half the cost of the lot, so overall not a bad buy. We'll see if anything pops up as I go through the individual countries.
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Post by michael on Apr 19, 2023 17:57:55 GMT
As retirement days go, this was pretty much perfect. It has been a beautiful sunny day and I mowed the lawns. Then the post brought 2 stamp related items, a cinderella stamp I had been searching for for 5 years and some South Australian Specimen stamps to fill the gaps where the non specimen stamps are too expensive. Also a component for a friend's faulty Bose Solo speaker arrived and I was able to get it working. This was followed by a DPD delivery of accessories for a Safe A3 album I had recently purchased for my stamp sheets. Then late in the day, I had a delivery of stones for my garden and finished the day with a beef chow mein and a glass of Yellow Tail Shiraz.
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 19, 2023 18:20:03 GMT
Then late in the day, I had a delivery of stones for my garden and finished the day with a beef chow mein and a glass of Yellow Tail Shiraz. I will definitely have a glass of Australian Shiraz with you .....except I cannot do the trip Canada-Australia btw your Yellow Tail Shiraz is very popular and easily available in our NB liquor stores - René
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philatelia
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Apr 19, 2023 21:18:43 GMT
Not much stamping as I’ve been under the weather for a few days, but hanging in there! Nothing life threatening. When I feel a bit better, I putter at my desk.
A while back I bought a used Faroe collection and now I’m going through and replacing the used singles with First day cancels with what I hope are postal usage cancels. I’d like to soak some of the self adhesive Faroes but I don’t have any duplicates to test. Does anyone know if they have a water soluble layer?
I only need a few key items to be fairly “complete”. A collection is never really complete - you know what I mean? Anyways - I’m looking for a nice bisect cover and mint early provisionals. Have all used, most on piece, some multiples. I added a bunch of postcards with nice frankings, too.
One of my bad habits is that when I don’t feel good I’ll lie down and browse auctions on my iPad. So naughty! But I did find a bargain collection of used classic USA. I can’t wait to find out what’s in there - only a few pics were shown, but the price I paid would be a good deal even if there were no others. The rest will be frosting on the cake.
Keep on stamping everyone!
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 19, 2023 21:27:24 GMT
Not much stamping as I’ve been under the weather for a few days, but hanging in there! Nothing life threatening. When I feel a bit better, I putter at my desk. Keep on stamping everyone! Hope you are doing better, Terri....or in the coming days !!! Do not buy useless Auction to compensate................. Best wishes,
Renémeanwhile my special Newfoundland Auction is over at 11:30 PM (my time ATS) - I will see the results in the morning as I am (sorry) sleeping at that time - my proxy is established and will see if some stamper really wants it, at a high CV ....and a good bid !!
All this for a Unitrade/Scott # 59 ....a VF imprint pair, VFOG 10 cents with a Unitrade CV of $C600/stamp - Imprint is not valued by Unitrade or Scott ....and Walsh # 49 N.S.S.C. does mention the imprint but not as it is presented on the Auction site (pair)....a fun time if I win (if not, still happy to "try" !! Saying that our multiple catalogs do great.......sorry !!
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Post by paul1 on Apr 19, 2023 22:13:06 GMT
Hi philatelia (Terri) - sending best wishes from the U.K. and hoping you're back to 100% v. soon. Scanning auctions on the screen is a universal bad habit - not yours alone - just have to watch the descending bank balance! I prefer icing in the cake, otherwise it's too cold.;-);-)
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Post by paul1 on Apr 19, 2023 22:21:12 GMT
the point about soaking, is that I've been dealing with a lot of mint hinged just now - I tend to v. carefully use fingers or tweezers to physically pull away the hinge. As people know, the obvious happens, and only half the hinge plays ball. If the stamp is then soaked, the stubborn half of the hinge will float away, but presumably will take the original gum with it. Is this the price to pay for buying mint hinged? Of course I also tear the occasional stamp too!!
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Apr 19, 2023 22:44:55 GMT
the point about soaking, is that I've been dealing with a lot of mint hinged just now - I tend to v. carefully use fingers or tweezers to physically pull away the hinge. As people know, the obvious happens, and only half the hinge plays ball. If the stamp is then soaked, the stubborn half of the hinge will float away, but presumably will take the original gum with it. Is this the price to pay for buying mint hinged? Of course I also tear the occasional stamp too!! paul1 As you know once hinged a mint stamp will always be a hinged stamp even if all the hinge remnants are removed. I would never soak off a remnant from a mint stamp. Once when I was attempting to remove a bit of hinge a couple forum members recommended gently rubbing the piece on a hard service with the the blunt end of tweezers to break the bond. Make sure the metal used for rubbing is not sharp. I have had relatively good success doing this. I especially have done it where the hinge remnant has caused the stamp to curl.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 20, 2023 8:04:58 GMT
thanks hdm1950 - I will try the tweezer suggestion and see if successful, but agree once hinged then this will always be noticeable, but I'll desist from soaking these mint examples. One of my other obsessions is bookbinding, and the gremlins that venture out when glue and paper are involved is no one's business - curling is almost always the order of the day. To what extent a stamp hinge compounds the problem I'm not sure, but as we all know, glue on the reverse of a stamp can sometimes cause massive curling in that direction. Buying older collections is a minefield of unpredictable curling - as far as sticking a stamp down the consequences are varied - some collectors appear to dampen the entire reverse, others use just the hinge, some seem to have soaked the hinge with enough spit to wash the car which means that it isn't just the hinge that needs freeing from the page. I don't normally collect Austria, but the attached shows a few mint examples with much appeal - unfortunately, most look to have been stuck down with excessive zeal. Might it be acceptable to cut free with small margin of backing page, rather than try to free dry? - unsure of the date of these labels - presume post WW II. P.S. Should be more accurate as to classification, so ............. left stamps of flowers are: SG C209 to C218 issued May 1948 as 'Anti Tuberculosis Fund' - and right hand issues are SG C181 to C190 issued June 1947 as 'National Art Exhibition'. Perhaps like a lot of issues around this time, 'used' stamps - at least according to my ancient SG catalogue printed 1961 - are slightly more valuable than mint examples. Whether this still holds true in 2023 I've no idea.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Apr 20, 2023 9:20:35 GMT
Ho hum, tonight is the end of our formal Thursday evening club season until Sept. The AGM . To encourage attendance we have a room auction of 100 or so lots so I need to look out half a dozen small items to try and sell. I know there is a large stockbook of used USA which will probably not sell or just fetch peanuts. None of our members collect US but the album is good for £10 surely
The Friday morning swap and buy for 5p sessions will continue till the end of May.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 20, 2023 10:55:32 GMT
""Put them between a couple of pieces of paper towel and their weighed down with a couple of old hymnals and a brick."" am surprised TimG that you get away with using paper towel - I'd have thought that was too clingy with stamps. There is a useful thin hard surfaced paper - almost like old fashioned tracing paper - that goes under the general name of 'wax release paper'. Could be worth giving it a go - not expensive.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 20, 2023 10:59:59 GMT
quote from vikingeck - "None of our members collect US but the album is good for £10 surely" - am sure it is - I think the problem with U.S. is that there are way too many issues, which puts people off. If you stick with defs. then maybe not too bad, but the pictorials seem endless - I'm thinking of stopping myself, and I do have some nice fairly early def. heads.
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JeffS
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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 Apr 21, 2023 16:10:48 GMT
Not much really. Outdoor work and family activities have nearly turned me into a regular human being. We had a huge wind, rain and hail storm last night which moved things around on the back porch and across the yard which I have never seen moved by nature.
I have a snipe bid set today for one item I have been waiting for for 20 years and if successful it shall propel in organizing that collection into a competitive exhibit (which I swore off of last year).
I am so behind on eBay listings, emails and postings...
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 21, 2023 16:47:21 GMT
Not much really. Outdoor work and family activities have nearly turned me into a regular human being. We had a huge wind, rain and hail storm last night which moved things around on the back porch and across the yard which I have never seen moved by nature. Jeff, maybe you are enjoying real life René
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 21, 2023 17:50:12 GMT
""Put them between a couple of pieces of paper towel and their weighed down with a couple of old hymnals and a brick."" am surprised TimG that you get away with using paper towel - I'd have thought that was too clingy with stamps. There is a useful thin hard surfaced paper - almost like old fashioned tracing paper - that goes under the general name of 'wax release paper'. Could be worth giving it a go - not expensive. paper towels work failry well, but they tend to leave the pattern of the paper towel onto the stamp. Both Wax paper and parchment work pretty well, but they wrinkle so are a 'one and done" I finally just got a couple of drying books and it was worth the small expense!
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 21, 2023 17:56:26 GMT
Slow stamping of late- weather has turned quite pleasant and time to catch up on outdoor chores, including getting the spring/summer garden completely in the ground. Have been working on some France pages (....?!?) This one denomination Y&T # 140 has occupied much more of my time than planned, and still not done!
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Post by brookbam on Apr 21, 2023 21:50:23 GMT
I am so behind on eBay listings, emails and postings... I. Feel. Your. Pain.
I wanted to be knee deep in a DIY stamp album about now but I am seriously distracted on this FDC project...which has it's own interesting set of interactions. mike
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