Thank you so much for this video! Excellent!! Regrettably I've destroyed some self-adhesive stamps trying to remove them from the envelopes. Thank you!
I can recommend the stamp drying books - they work very well - one surface is shiny so the gum residue does not stick to it. The other side is designed to dry and not harm your stamps. And the stamps come out complete flat as if brand new.
Great video! And very thorough. One thing I do different, now at least, is that I recently bought a stamp drying book. I have a very small work area and I don't really have the space to dry and press stamps large sheets. And I usually have plenty I need to dry at once. So I bought a stamp drying book, the Desert Magic II version, and I am absolutely loving it. I tend to soak, put them in the book, dry for a day under some heavy books, and then they're dry and flat for hinging.
Prior to my adoption of drying on paper grocery bags, I was using a art pad of water color paper. very thick and absorbent. It probably worked similar to your stamp drying book. I still have it but have not used it recently.
@@PostalPleasures The big thing about the drying book is that you lay the stamps face up on the pages. They're specially treated so they repel all known stamp adhesives. Opposite the shiny page is a page of heavy blotting paper. So you soak the stamps, lay them face up on the page, close the book tight, and wait a few hours. Most of the stamps just fall out after drying, but a few you may have to put tongues under them. Nothing sticks. It's honestly the best tool I added since I bought tongs.
@@stampcollector0452 Yes, they do! I'm not having any trouble getting the stamps off the page after drying, and they dry fast. One complaint I have is that the blotting paper tends to get warped from wetting drying and rewetting over time, but if the stamps aren't perfectly flat I can always press them between a couple books after they're dry.
Great to watch. I'm hoping this will help me figure out on a bunch of stamps that were given a layer of clear packing tape on top of the stamps so it would strongly adhere to the package it was sent with.
Thanks for the video. I made it to the end. I just started collecting stamps, it is very exciting. I will watch more of your videos. I am from the Netherlands and I have not find many interesting videos in my mother tongue. Thanks again!
Amazing video its a great lessons for new collectors learning great lessons. I use to do this with my mama who use to collect stamps - but she’s in Heaven so its my turn to juggle with many stamps soaking and I am trying to put some in a zipper bag & keep in the freezer and see if it comes off the paper or not?
Good Video!! For Self Adhesives I use Pure Citrus Orange Air Freshener!! spray the back of stamp and it paper will come off. Use an old coffee can lid to hold stamp while spraying.
Thanks for sharing the whole process it actually helps alot seeing through your experience and when you mention your challenges and how you were able to come over. I liked this video much. Thanks for taking the time to shoot edit upload and share with us🎉
I have several full sheets of stamps that have become lued or stuck onto the wax paper protector. The sheets are perfect. How do I get them off the wax paper without damaging them.
Have you used a drying book? If so is there much advantage over just letting them dry on a paper towel? I have quite a few on paper stamps I want to take off. I have about 14,000 on paper
Hey bro, just wanted to share about the self-stick stamps. If you can Identify them before hand, use lighter fluid to remove them, it works like a charm. It's comparable in price to bestine, but philatelists might have this on hand anyway from water-mark identification. To be honest it worked so well, I had no issues with damage or discolouring. A few tips: 1) Trim the paper close, to conserve fluid, though leave enough paper to preserve perfs., and to hold while pealing the stamp. 2) Completely saturate paper with fluid. 3) slide tweezers/tongs behind stamp to release from paper. 4) Let air dry completely with glue side up. 5) Sprinkle stamp with talcum powder prior to handling, and spread with a finger tip, you won't need much.
I have read about using lighter fluid as a stamp lift fluid, I keep a bottle of Ronsonol at my desk for detecting stubborn watermarks but haven't tried it to remove stamps from paper yet. Thanks for sharing your tips.
I would like to offer an additional step 3.5 after lifting stamp off paper, and before drying. Lay damp stamp face down on paper towel working from a stiff table top surface, and use an old credit card edge and lightly scrap (squeegee) the gooey adhesive from center to outer stamp edge. Then air dry.
Self adhesive stamps and removal from paper or packaging...... use hand sanitizer, probably much easier and less expensive unless there’s an pandemic 😷. 6-24-2021 ( why aren’t comments dated❓ Put a date, collectors )
Another option if you don't want to mess with Bestine, etc., is to use a spritz of pure citrus on the back of self-adhesive stamps. The paper will release in seconds, allowing you to either use a scraper to remove the residual adhesive (some people use credit card edges) or apply baby powder with an oral syringe dispenser to evenly apply the powder onto the adhesive side, which will minimize the mess. It takes patience and is a little time-consuming. I use unscented powder to limit the amount of oils, but some will argue that there is still a degree of oil in the powder that can damage the stamps in the long run. So far, so good. I'd only recommend doing this for a limited number of stamps, particularly if you collect used U.S. and want to have one of each in your album.
The USPS “ruined” collecting. The self-adhesive stamps made this soaking activity impossible without solvents. Out of bounds for children. I also dislike the Forever stamp. I want to see the denominations. I have been idle in this hobby but used to do this in my 3rd grade classroom. Sometimes we would “sweat” them off in a shoebox and stick them on plastic to dry. When they popped off, they still had their original gum. I have a few stamps that appear to be mint but have seen postal duty.
I've been soaking stamps lately in hot water with a tiny drop of dishwashing liquid, and then dipping the soaked stamps in clear, cool water to rinse. Seems to be an improvement over my previous method of a single bowl of tepid water.
those envelopes with the rainbow colours ,don't soak them with the stamps because the colours run [i learned it]. You should cut them out 1st or soak them in aplate on their own.
Alternate to soaking: Just use some of that hand sanitizer that the world now needs thanks to the pandemic⚠️ Put a few drops on paper side ( not stamp side )⚠️ You can spread it around on backside and carefully bending paper from stamp, it will separate. You’ll still have the adhesive in tact. You can then attach your stamp to an ACID FREE FILM ( found on those stamp stock card envelopes ). Trim close to perf’s as necessary, but NOT cutting PERFORATIONS‼️ There are other videos that show using sanitizer. 6-24-2021
Thank you so much for this video! Excellent!! Regrettably I've destroyed some self-adhesive stamps trying to remove them from the envelopes. Thank you!
I can recommend the stamp drying books - they work very well - one surface is shiny so the gum residue does not stick to it. The other side is designed to dry and not harm your stamps. And the stamps come out complete flat as if brand new.
Great video! And very thorough. One thing I do different, now at least, is that I recently bought a stamp drying book. I have a very small work area and I don't really have the space to dry and press stamps large sheets. And I usually have plenty I need to dry at once. So I bought a stamp drying book, the Desert Magic II version, and I am absolutely loving it. I tend to soak, put them in the book, dry for a day under some heavy books, and then they're dry and flat for hinging.
Prior to my adoption of drying on paper grocery bags, I was using a art pad of water color paper. very thick and absorbent. It probably worked similar to your stamp drying book. I still have it but have not used it recently.
@@PostalPleasures The big thing about the drying book is that you lay the stamps face up on the pages. They're specially treated so they repel all known stamp adhesives. Opposite the shiny page is a page of heavy blotting paper. So you soak the stamps, lay them face up on the page, close the book tight, and wait a few hours. Most of the stamps just fall out after drying, but a few you may have to put tongues under them. Nothing sticks. It's honestly the best tool I added since I bought tongs.
Interesting, I may have to see if I can find a drying book.
@@z.l.burington1183 I have never used one, do they work ?
@@stampcollector0452 Yes, they do! I'm not having any trouble getting the stamps off the page after drying, and they dry fast. One complaint I have is that the blotting paper tends to get warped from wetting drying and rewetting over time, but if the stamps aren't perfectly flat I can always press them between a couple books after they're dry.
Great to watch. I'm hoping this will help me figure out on a bunch of stamps that were given a layer of clear packing tape on top of the stamps so it would strongly adhere to the package it was sent with.
I made it to the end and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for doing these great videos!
Thanks for the video. I made it to the end. I just started collecting stamps, it is very exciting. I will watch more of your videos. I am from the Netherlands and I have not find many interesting videos in my mother tongue.
Thanks again!
Thanks a lot - yes I waited till the end, and learned that it takes patience!
Thanks so much for watching Ms. Cleary
tips on where to find stamps now since not much mails with stamps comes in the box nowadays . thanks
Amazing video its a great lessons for new collectors learning great lessons.
I use to do this with my mama who use to collect stamps - but she’s in Heaven so its my turn to juggle with many stamps soaking and I am trying to put some in a zipper bag & keep in the freezer and see if it comes off the paper or not?
Good Video!! For Self Adhesives I use Pure Citrus Orange Air Freshener!! spray the back of stamp and it paper will come off. Use an old coffee can lid to hold stamp while spraying.
Thanks for sharing the whole process it actually helps alot seeing through your experience and when you mention your challenges and how you were able to come over. I liked this video much. Thanks for taking the time to shoot edit upload and share with us🎉
Say, can you make a video on how to go about evaluating a stamp collection?
I have several full sheets of stamps that have become lued or stuck onto the wax paper protector. The sheets are perfect. How do I get them off the wax paper without damaging them.
Have you used a drying book? If so is there much advantage over just letting them dry on a paper towel? I have quite a few on paper stamps I want to take off. I have about 14,000 on paper
Hey bro, just wanted to share about the self-stick stamps. If you can Identify them before hand, use
lighter fluid to remove them, it works like a charm. It's comparable in price to bestine, but philatelists might have this on hand anyway from water-mark identification.
To be honest it worked so well, I had no issues with damage or discolouring.
A few tips:
1) Trim the paper close, to conserve fluid, though leave enough paper to preserve perfs., and to hold while pealing the stamp.
2) Completely saturate paper with fluid.
3) slide tweezers/tongs behind stamp to release from paper.
4) Let air dry completely with glue side up.
5) Sprinkle stamp with talcum powder prior to handling, and spread with a finger tip, you won't need much.
I have read about using lighter fluid as a stamp lift fluid, I keep a bottle of Ronsonol at my desk for detecting stubborn watermarks but haven't tried it to remove stamps from paper yet. Thanks for sharing your tips.
I would like to offer an additional step 3.5 after lifting stamp off paper, and before drying. Lay damp stamp face down on paper towel working from a stiff table top surface, and use an old credit card edge and lightly scrap (squeegee) the gooey adhesive from center to outer stamp edge. Then air dry.
@@Emperor-Wild-Man Thanks, I don't generally have too much extra gum so I have not had to do this but if I ever do I will give it a try.
Self adhesive stamps and removal from paper or packaging...... use hand sanitizer, probably much easier and less expensive unless there’s an pandemic 😷. 6-24-2021 ( why aren’t comments dated❓ Put a date, collectors )
Another option if you don't want to mess with Bestine, etc., is to use a spritz of pure citrus on the back of self-adhesive stamps. The paper will release in seconds, allowing you to either use a scraper to remove the residual adhesive (some people use credit card edges) or apply baby powder with an oral syringe dispenser to evenly apply the powder onto the adhesive side, which will minimize the mess. It takes patience and is a little time-consuming. I use unscented powder to limit the amount of oils, but some will argue that there is still a degree of oil in the powder that can damage the stamps in the long run. So far, so good. I'd only recommend doing this for a limited number of stamps, particularly if you collect used U.S. and want to have one of each in your album.
I use a Mix of cold and Warm water when I soak mine .
Thank you so much. I am learning a lot!!
Thanks for watching. Glad the video was helpful.
Jason, are we related?
nice work pal enjoyed it fully
Why do you soak the stamps face down as to face up?
Twaskyou sr very interesting on m y knowledge.
Blessings
hello i have a question i have a stamp from british Guiana 4c magenta
Thanks, I think I learned a lot.
Thats great. If you ever have any questions please feel free to ask. I am always happy to help if I am able.
I need to know this please.
Removing stamps in this way may reduce the price, isnt sir.Thanks for the nice upload.
The USPS “ruined” collecting. The self-adhesive stamps made this soaking activity impossible without solvents. Out of bounds for children. I also dislike the Forever stamp. I want to see the denominations. I have been idle in this hobby but used to do this in my 3rd grade classroom. Sometimes we would “sweat” them off in a shoebox and stick them on plastic to dry. When they popped off, they still had their original gum. I have a few stamps that appear to be mint but have seen postal duty.
I have heard people claim that if you mix a drop or two of dish detergent it helps the soaking. I have not tried it. Have you heard of that?
Yes I have heard that some use detergent as well, I have not tried it either.
I've been soaking stamps lately in hot water with a tiny drop of dishwashing liquid, and then dipping the soaked stamps in clear, cool water to rinse. Seems to be an improvement over my previous method of a single bowl of tepid water.
what is that one with the tiffany lamp 1 cent? it looks like it has an art of magic stamp attached. @PostalPleasures #PostalPleasures
those envelopes with the rainbow colours ,don't soak them with the stamps because the colours run [i learned it]. You should cut them out 1st or soak them in aplate on their own.
Yes, one by one in cool water. Float face down on the water not in the water and remove ASAP. Peel the stamp off if you can to get done sooner
Alternate to soaking: Just use some of that hand sanitizer that the world now needs thanks to the pandemic⚠️
Put a few drops on paper side ( not stamp side )⚠️ You can spread it around on backside and carefully bending paper from stamp, it will separate. You’ll still have the adhesive in tact. You can then attach your stamp to an ACID FREE FILM ( found on those stamp stock card envelopes ). Trim close to perf’s as necessary, but NOT cutting PERFORATIONS‼️ There are other videos that show using sanitizer. 6-24-2021
Soaking is obsolete. Embrace thumb rub meta
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