Hi Everyone;
This is how I handle stamps on corrugated cardboard. I'm assuming they are water soakable
tho. I cut the cardboard close about 1/8". Then I grab the outside layer of heavy paper and
gently peel it away from the corrugations. This way the stamps are just on heavy paper and
soaking goes a bit faster.
Non-water soakable stamps I don't collect, as I only collect up to 1971-1981, as I refuse to
keep buying supplements. When I get them I just list and sell them on paper for someone
else to fuss over how to do them.
Keep on soakin'....
TuskenRaider
I posted the same question not too long ago. So far, I haven't had any problems soaking the Canadian self-adhesives in warm water. Some take a few minutes longer than others but they all seem to soak off cleanly. I haven't tried the 3-D ones, though. And I soak only about a dozen at a time.
Tad
Canadian self adhesive stamps are not soakable.
Rick VanGorder, Phoenix AZ
um ... um ... Tad says Canadian s/a soak off in water and Rick says they don't. Who is speaking from experience and who from hearsay? Or are there different periods when they used different adhesives with different properties?
I have never had problem soaking used stamps of Canada. The self adhesive do need to be soaked a little longer.
I will be soaking some more recent stamps of Canada next week, and if I find anything different I will post it here.
Doug
" .... I have never had problem soaking used stamps of Canada. The self adhesive do need to be soaked a little longer. ...."
Same here, at least I do not recall cursing at the Canada stamps the way I sometimes do with some French definitives.
Canadian self-adhesives ARE soakable. There is a layer of PVA gum between the paper and the self-adhesive gum that allows them to be water soakable. As d1stamper says, it sometimes takes a little longer then the old lick-and-stick stamps.
All of my Canadian S/A stamps are soakable. To date, I have had no problems with them.
Chimo
Bujutsu
I received a mailer box with some nice new Canadian stamps. There are five very large 2.50 Hockey Player stamps and a circular sheet of non-denominated Canadian Recording Artists.
Will these stamps water soak off the corrugated cardboard???
Thanks,
Jim
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
Hi Everyone;
This is how I handle stamps on corrugated cardboard. I'm assuming they are water soakable
tho. I cut the cardboard close about 1/8". Then I grab the outside layer of heavy paper and
gently peel it away from the corrugations. This way the stamps are just on heavy paper and
soaking goes a bit faster.
Non-water soakable stamps I don't collect, as I only collect up to 1971-1981, as I refuse to
keep buying supplements. When I get them I just list and sell them on paper for someone
else to fuss over how to do them.
Keep on soakin'....
TuskenRaider
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
I posted the same question not too long ago. So far, I haven't had any problems soaking the Canadian self-adhesives in warm water. Some take a few minutes longer than others but they all seem to soak off cleanly. I haven't tried the 3-D ones, though. And I soak only about a dozen at a time.
Tad
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
Canadian self adhesive stamps are not soakable.
Rick VanGorder, Phoenix AZ
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
um ... um ... Tad says Canadian s/a soak off in water and Rick says they don't. Who is speaking from experience and who from hearsay? Or are there different periods when they used different adhesives with different properties?
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
I have never had problem soaking used stamps of Canada. The self adhesive do need to be soaked a little longer.
I will be soaking some more recent stamps of Canada next week, and if I find anything different I will post it here.
Doug
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
" .... I have never had problem soaking used stamps of Canada. The self adhesive do need to be soaked a little longer. ...."
Same here, at least I do not recall cursing at the Canada stamps the way I sometimes do with some French definitives.
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
Canadian self-adhesives ARE soakable. There is a layer of PVA gum between the paper and the self-adhesive gum that allows them to be water soakable. As d1stamper says, it sometimes takes a little longer then the old lick-and-stick stamps.
re: Soaking newer Canadian Stamps
All of my Canadian S/A stamps are soakable. To date, I have had no problems with them.
Chimo
Bujutsu