Removal & Preservation of Self Adhesive Postage Stamps
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Published 2014-03-23
All Comments (21)
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I prefer the way Australia Post website recommends soaking the self adhesive stamps in water that was boiled and very hot for ten minutes. They mention that the oil based adhesive is stuck to a water based adhesive that is attached to the stamp. The heat helps the water eventually reach the water soluble layer to lift it from the oil adhesive. I tried this with stamps from hong kong, germany and australia and it worked well.
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I just inherited a large (well, large to me) stamp collection that my mother-in-law had sitting in her spare room. I'm on the hunt for the best way to start going through and storing them for my own collection. This was a great tip. Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much! I sure do miss the water activated stamps that would slide right off. These newer ones have been driving me crazy and practically ruined stamp collecting for me. I can't wait to try this. I don't have any of the clear plastic stamp cards, but I plan to use archival-quality page protectors instead. Should work just as well. I think you just rescued another philatelist!
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I Have been collecting for many years and I needed to find a way to remove the self adhesive stamps. I collect high value US and this is the best way I have found to do this process Thank you so much
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ive always used the acetone and talc method ,but ill have to give this a go ,cheers from the UK
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Great job ! Thanks for sharing this tested method !
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Very detailed explanation and ThanQ! I have had great difficult to take off these stubborn UK self adhesive stamps using warm water. Will try your method and hopefully this should do the trick!
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this man is awesome. he should be doing this for a living .awesome video.
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Thank you so very much for showing this way, it seems so much better then putting it in water, I'll try it this way,once again. many thanks .
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I actually stopped removing from the envelopes because they were turning to mush and stopped putting them in my album. My stamps remained in a huge box from frustration. Thank you and I'm gong out to buy adhesive remover. I don't know why I don't already have it since I'm an avid scrapbooker. I'm back in business
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Thanks for your advise mate from Australia I'll give it a go .
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That is a very good method. Thank you for sharing.
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More videos please! This one was great! Will help a lot with the self-adhesive ones.
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Now this is a very interesting idea! I’ll have to try it out. Thank you!
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Fantastic idea. I will definitely try this. Thanks for the great videos
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You should do more videos !! :3 id love too see some of your collections.
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Thanks,will give it a go! Cheers from Australia.
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Not bad. I like the heptane idea, it seems to work wonderfully and remove the stamp the way you would want to remove the stamp, completely that is. For the second part of this process, I still like the idea of using baby powder instead of using the clear plastic film to put on the back of the stamp, unless you have a whole bunch of those pouches. Baby power leaves the back of the stamp nice, smooth and clean looking. I will pick up the heptane idea though. Thanks for sharing!
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Best advice! Thanks a lot!
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very impresived methods to learn from.
