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My issue is with stamps that are thinned after someone tried to pull off the hinges attached to them. There probably is a method to fix thins other than run a white-out pen over the spot.
Do you do any stamp repairs?
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In the hobby, repairing stamps is highly frowned upon. Repaired stamps are considered to be altered stamps, and thus lose much of their value.
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My first quick response to you would have been no but that would've been a lie. Before you or anyone else gets turned off by my first comment listen.
I press out those pesky curls that occur after soaking and lets not forget creases. This alone makes me guilty of repairing stamps but it is common practice and was taught to many of us early in the early stages of our involvement with the hobby it is a widely accepted practice.
Making repairs to a thin or a tear I have never attempted those repairs nor would I even try it. This includes reperfing
stamps as well. But that isn't to say that I don't have some and they don't serve a purpose either. I use mine for a reference collection.
The practice of repairing stamps has been around since the first one was issued. The definition of repair is a widely debated topic and comes up quite often on this forum and is usually referenced when someone is looking to buy or sell a particular stamp. Especially when it is suspicious in appearance and the seller is trying to be deceitful. Particularly from those dodgy eBay sellers and auction houses.
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I wouldn't take the time to repair a stamp myself. Besides, for most repairs, there is probably a lengthy learning curve. I have seen repairs in collections I purchased. Some are very easy to detect while others are very easy to overlook — at first. I've seen a couple of repairs that were amazingly well done. They had to be the work of experts.
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I trim uneven margins around imperforate stamps, which always look so messy on the album page if left irregular. My defence is that I am only tidying up the work of the original clerk at the post office as he separated the stamps from the sheet.
Of course I am very careful not to trim the margins too close to the stamp design. I operate on what seems to me the best 'look', which is a matter of personal taste, but which resolves itself for me into a margin of roughly 2mm. Single margins already cut tighter than that do not dictate the width of the other three.
It helps that I collect mint only, and several imperforate issues were issued for the benefit of stamp collectors rather than letter-senders. This means they have usually arrived in my albums in good condition already.
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There was a some great articles in "The Weiss Library" all about repairing damage, how to re-gum and other areas. Maybe there will be something useful here.
http://www.stampexpertizing.com/
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I've seen thins filled in with correction fluid (white out) that looked pretty good. It's all about paying for what you get. Sure, everyone would prefer that classic, higher cat. stamp with full perfs, pristine back but sometimes you buy what your pocket book allows. True "trainwrecks" with face scuffs, tears etc. I find that that I can't enjoy them at any price so I avoid the. Pressed out corner creases here, nibbled perfs here and there aren't too bad. You just don't want to stare at a whole album page of faults because then you've got a Frankenstein collection!
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Ernie, I feel the same way, but I do not look for perfection in used stamps.
We know we can buy first quality mint stamps or CTO from a Philatelic Bureau and enjoy their perfection in our albums, but....there is going to be something missing there, at least for me.
A used stamp from an obscure country, purchased and affixed by a non-collector and torn off the sheet by another non-collector has close to 0% chances keeping all its perforations intact and since it is not glued to the envelope properly, it will also be creased or torn.
High value definitives used on parcels that travel thousands of kilometers and get stacked over other parcels too have little chance of looking like spring chickens, so I have accepted that and as long as I like the overall appearance and cancellation, I have no objections.
Still it will be nice to give some first aid to the warriors.
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I have heard of stamps being repaired, missing perfs and corners fixed, regumming and what not, but I am still unsure how much of this is done.
My issue is with stamps that are thinned after someone tried to pull off the hinges attached to them. There probably is a method to fix thins other than run a white-out pen over the spot.
Do you do any stamp repairs?
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07:49:18pm
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In the hobby, repairing stamps is highly frowned upon. Repaired stamps are considered to be altered stamps, and thus lose much of their value.
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08:36:37pm
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My first quick response to you would have been no but that would've been a lie. Before you or anyone else gets turned off by my first comment listen.
I press out those pesky curls that occur after soaking and lets not forget creases. This alone makes me guilty of repairing stamps but it is common practice and was taught to many of us early in the early stages of our involvement with the hobby it is a widely accepted practice.
Making repairs to a thin or a tear I have never attempted those repairs nor would I even try it. This includes reperfing
stamps as well. But that isn't to say that I don't have some and they don't serve a purpose either. I use mine for a reference collection.
The practice of repairing stamps has been around since the first one was issued. The definition of repair is a widely debated topic and comes up quite often on this forum and is usually referenced when someone is looking to buy or sell a particular stamp. Especially when it is suspicious in appearance and the seller is trying to be deceitful. Particularly from those dodgy eBay sellers and auction houses.
Jeremy
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re: Stamp restoration
I wouldn't take the time to repair a stamp myself. Besides, for most repairs, there is probably a lengthy learning curve. I have seen repairs in collections I purchased. Some are very easy to detect while others are very easy to overlook — at first. I've seen a couple of repairs that were amazingly well done. They had to be the work of experts.
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re: Stamp restoration
I trim uneven margins around imperforate stamps, which always look so messy on the album page if left irregular. My defence is that I am only tidying up the work of the original clerk at the post office as he separated the stamps from the sheet.
Of course I am very careful not to trim the margins too close to the stamp design. I operate on what seems to me the best 'look', which is a matter of personal taste, but which resolves itself for me into a margin of roughly 2mm. Single margins already cut tighter than that do not dictate the width of the other three.
It helps that I collect mint only, and several imperforate issues were issued for the benefit of stamp collectors rather than letter-senders. This means they have usually arrived in my albums in good condition already.
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re: Stamp restoration
There was a some great articles in "The Weiss Library" all about repairing damage, how to re-gum and other areas. Maybe there will be something useful here.
http://www.stampexpertizing.com/
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05:22:29pm
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I've seen thins filled in with correction fluid (white out) that looked pretty good. It's all about paying for what you get. Sure, everyone would prefer that classic, higher cat. stamp with full perfs, pristine back but sometimes you buy what your pocket book allows. True "trainwrecks" with face scuffs, tears etc. I find that that I can't enjoy them at any price so I avoid the. Pressed out corner creases here, nibbled perfs here and there aren't too bad. You just don't want to stare at a whole album page of faults because then you've got a Frankenstein collection!
Ernie
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re: Stamp restoration
Ernie, I feel the same way, but I do not look for perfection in used stamps.
We know we can buy first quality mint stamps or CTO from a Philatelic Bureau and enjoy their perfection in our albums, but....there is going to be something missing there, at least for me.
A used stamp from an obscure country, purchased and affixed by a non-collector and torn off the sheet by another non-collector has close to 0% chances keeping all its perforations intact and since it is not glued to the envelope properly, it will also be creased or torn.
High value definitives used on parcels that travel thousands of kilometers and get stacked over other parcels too have little chance of looking like spring chickens, so I have accepted that and as long as I like the overall appearance and cancellation, I have no objections.
Still it will be nice to give some first aid to the warriors.
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