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colder water works better, but mostly I just send stamps on bright colored paper to Holocaust project.
but nothing is fool proof.... and do a couple at a time, of the same color, so in the likely event you fail, you fail small.
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Before you worry more, test to see if the colors in the paper run by wetting the far corner and ...
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thanks AMSD, but, what is Holocost
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http://www.foxboroughrcs.org/students-families/frcs-holocaust-stamp-project/
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Hi Everyone;
Ikey has a great idea. sometimes a small amount of color bleed will be hard to see in soak water, so use a white bowl. Also get one corner in fairly warm water and place on bright white paper and press down hard. If it is bleedable you'll find out quickly.
Another useful test would be try steaming far corner for several minutes and press onto bright white paper. My reason for this suggestion is...several years ago I had a ton of French covers with the avion blue and red hashmarks around the envelope border. So I knew not to soak them. Instead I steamed them. Water based gum will only soften in steam and not become liquid. Gently lift stamp off of envelope with spade tongs. Inspect the stamp on back for traces of color. If clean, then place the stamp in a bowl of warm water, to remove the gum residue. That method usually works well and reduces color bleed to near zero.
Hope that helps...if so reply on this thread as to your results, so others can benefit.
Thank you for that Ikey!
Just learnin'....
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You're welcome, TR.
CONFIDENCE: that feeling you get just before you test your solution.
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the Holocaust Stamp Project.... A Massachusetts charter school is using stamps to illustrate aspects of the Holocaust. Their aim is to use one stamp for each of the 11 million individual murdered in the Holocaust..... they're taking the larger number to include other religions, gypsies, the feeble, Slavs.
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One Christmas envelope can ruin your whole day! 
Been there, done that, there should be a t-shirt!
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Or just soak the paper off the stamp, dry, flatten and mount it as either a shade variety or note the rare light green paper usage.
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It has to be said that ,in my experience, it is only U.S.( and possibly Canadian ) coloured envelopes bleed, particularly red and green. Our home grown variety seem to be coloured with "fast" dyes ( probably due to probable exposure to our delightful climate in the course of delivery).
I find the "sweat box" method a good, if time consuming method of removing stamps from difficult paper. I use a plastic "fridge bottom" shape salad container with an airtight lid and a plastic raised griddle in the bottom (prevents salads "sweating").
Put a small quantity of water below, but not touching the griddle, fit the lid and leave in a warm place for an hour or two. The less patient can put a pad of wet blotting paper in a Tupperware box and the rest the stamp face up on top. In both cases capillary action and increased humidity should soften the gum sufficiently to enable the stamp to be lifted.
By the way always peel the backing paper from the stamp, NEVER the stamp from the backing paper - that way the backing paper will thin rather than the stamp - then repeat the process.
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Is there anyway I can remove stamps from colored envelopes, without staining the stamps?
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re: Colored envelopes.
colder water works better, but mostly I just send stamps on bright colored paper to Holocaust project.
but nothing is fool proof.... and do a couple at a time, of the same color, so in the likely event you fail, you fail small.
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re: Colored envelopes.
Before you worry more, test to see if the colors in the paper run by wetting the far corner and ...
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re: Colored envelopes.
thanks AMSD, but, what is Holocost
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http://www.foxboroughrcs.org/students-families/frcs-holocaust-stamp-project/
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re: Colored envelopes.
Hi Everyone;
Ikey has a great idea. sometimes a small amount of color bleed will be hard to see in soak water, so use a white bowl. Also get one corner in fairly warm water and place on bright white paper and press down hard. If it is bleedable you'll find out quickly.
Another useful test would be try steaming far corner for several minutes and press onto bright white paper. My reason for this suggestion is...several years ago I had a ton of French covers with the avion blue and red hashmarks around the envelope border. So I knew not to soak them. Instead I steamed them. Water based gum will only soften in steam and not become liquid. Gently lift stamp off of envelope with spade tongs. Inspect the stamp on back for traces of color. If clean, then place the stamp in a bowl of warm water, to remove the gum residue. That method usually works well and reduces color bleed to near zero.
Hope that helps...if so reply on this thread as to your results, so others can benefit.
Thank you for that Ikey!
Just learnin'....
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You're welcome, TR.
CONFIDENCE: that feeling you get just before you test your solution.
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re: Colored envelopes.
davic
the Holocaust Stamp Project.... A Massachusetts charter school is using stamps to illustrate aspects of the Holocaust. Their aim is to use one stamp for each of the 11 million individual murdered in the Holocaust..... they're taking the larger number to include other religions, gypsies, the feeble, Slavs.
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re: Colored envelopes.
One Christmas envelope can ruin your whole day!
Been there, done that, there should be a t-shirt!
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re: Colored envelopes.
Or just soak the paper off the stamp, dry, flatten and mount it as either a shade variety or note the rare light green paper usage.
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re: Colored envelopes.
It has to be said that ,in my experience, it is only U.S.( and possibly Canadian ) coloured envelopes bleed, particularly red and green. Our home grown variety seem to be coloured with "fast" dyes ( probably due to probable exposure to our delightful climate in the course of delivery).
I find the "sweat box" method a good, if time consuming method of removing stamps from difficult paper. I use a plastic "fridge bottom" shape salad container with an airtight lid and a plastic raised griddle in the bottom (prevents salads "sweating").
Put a small quantity of water below, but not touching the griddle, fit the lid and leave in a warm place for an hour or two. The less patient can put a pad of wet blotting paper in a Tupperware box and the rest the stamp face up on top. In both cases capillary action and increased humidity should soften the gum sufficiently to enable the stamp to be lifted.
By the way always peel the backing paper from the stamp, NEVER the stamp from the backing paper - that way the backing paper will thin rather than the stamp - then repeat the process.
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