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Since I had my collection shelved for many years, I have to do some catching up. I'm in Canada so naturally Canadian stamps are one of my interests. During the time when I wasn't officially collecting, I still purchased the odd stamp series from the post office. These stamps were just placed in a box with the intention to sort and display them some time in the future. I'm now at that point where I'm pulling these stamps out.
I also want to start purchasing new stamps on a regular basis from the post office, and to purchase many of the stamps I missed.
I personally like displaying my stamps in nice stock books but I also like to display various stamp series using self-created pages and stamp mounts. I don’t use hinges but I'm sure the use of hinges would have the same problem that I see exists with every way of displaying newer stamps: How does one collect, and more importantly, display ‘self-adhesive’ stamps?
I find it quite baffling how stamp collectors would deal with self-adhesives. I can leave the stamps in the booklets and display the entire booklet, but that’s not really for me. I suppose the stamp could be removed from the carrier paper and the glue somehow removed, but that could damage the stamp, plus I don’t believe that the stamp would still be considered ‘Mint’ any more.
What does everyone do when it comes to ‘self-adhesives’ for mint stamps? Actually, how do you deal with used ‘self-adhesives’ that are on the envelope. Any tricks of the trade that you wish to share?
Thank you.
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My way, and there are others, is to place the mint stamp plus backing paper into a mount. Trying to remove the backing paper will probably cause you to much work and likely end with a damaged stamp.
For used items I cut as close as possible around the stamp and mount in the same way.
Booklets, not that I collect them, would merely go into Vario style pages within an album.
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" .... How does one collect, and more importantly, display ‘self-adhesive’ stamps? ...."
First off I use them. Next I remove them from envelope paper using a short soak in Isoprophenol, clear supermarket rubbing alcohol. For details use our nifty search function as this has been discussed in older threads ad nausium.
Once in a while there comes an issue, US or otherwise, that seems totally resistant to being coaxed from paper.
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All the CANADIAN self-adhesive stamps will soak off except for the $5 50th anniversary of the Canadian Flag.
David in Ottawa
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And, just in case this is relevant, note that Scott values unused self-adhesive singles as remaining on their original backing paper, so that if there is any interest in retaining their best value for later disposal, leaving a self-adhesive undisturbed on trimmed but original backing paper is preferable.
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I've been buying sheets of new commemoratives for mailing and saving one or more of these for my collection. As you can see above, I have cut these clean and straight on my rotary cutting board. Some of these stamps have a row of just perforations left behind when you use them (see Jimi Hendrix and Lydia Mendoza) while others (see Janis and Maya) do not. I use the stamps around the stamp I intend to keep and cut the backing paper wide.
I haven't messed with any of these used. Don't think I'm going to bother.
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Hi everyone. I recently re-started my stamp collecting after putting my collection away for many years. I am now re-discovering my collection, and I have even purchased various stamps through StampoRama’s approval books and through Ebay. So basically, the fun has started once again!
Since I had my collection shelved for many years, I have to do some catching up. I'm in Canada so naturally Canadian stamps are one of my interests. During the time when I wasn't officially collecting, I still purchased the odd stamp series from the post office. These stamps were just placed in a box with the intention to sort and display them some time in the future. I'm now at that point where I'm pulling these stamps out.
I also want to start purchasing new stamps on a regular basis from the post office, and to purchase many of the stamps I missed.
I personally like displaying my stamps in nice stock books but I also like to display various stamp series using self-created pages and stamp mounts. I don’t use hinges but I'm sure the use of hinges would have the same problem that I see exists with every way of displaying newer stamps: How does one collect, and more importantly, display ‘self-adhesive’ stamps?
I find it quite baffling how stamp collectors would deal with self-adhesives. I can leave the stamps in the booklets and display the entire booklet, but that’s not really for me. I suppose the stamp could be removed from the carrier paper and the glue somehow removed, but that could damage the stamp, plus I don’t believe that the stamp would still be considered ‘Mint’ any more.
What does everyone do when it comes to ‘self-adhesives’ for mint stamps? Actually, how do you deal with used ‘self-adhesives’ that are on the envelope. Any tricks of the trade that you wish to share?
Thank you.
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My way, and there are others, is to place the mint stamp plus backing paper into a mount. Trying to remove the backing paper will probably cause you to much work and likely end with a damaged stamp.
For used items I cut as close as possible around the stamp and mount in the same way.
Booklets, not that I collect them, would merely go into Vario style pages within an album.
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re: A ‘Sticky’ Question…
" .... How does one collect, and more importantly, display ‘self-adhesive’ stamps? ...."
First off I use them. Next I remove them from envelope paper using a short soak in Isoprophenol, clear supermarket rubbing alcohol. For details use our nifty search function as this has been discussed in older threads ad nausium.
Once in a while there comes an issue, US or otherwise, that seems totally resistant to being coaxed from paper.
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Coobs:
All the CANADIAN self-adhesive stamps will soak off except for the $5 50th anniversary of the Canadian Flag.
David in Ottawa
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And, just in case this is relevant, note that Scott values unused self-adhesive singles as remaining on their original backing paper, so that if there is any interest in retaining their best value for later disposal, leaving a self-adhesive undisturbed on trimmed but original backing paper is preferable.
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I've been buying sheets of new commemoratives for mailing and saving one or more of these for my collection. As you can see above, I have cut these clean and straight on my rotary cutting board. Some of these stamps have a row of just perforations left behind when you use them (see Jimi Hendrix and Lydia Mendoza) while others (see Janis and Maya) do not. I use the stamps around the stamp I intend to keep and cut the backing paper wide.
I haven't messed with any of these used. Don't think I'm going to bother.
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