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Any Tips On Soaking?

 
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Posted 04/13/2011   10:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I would like to know the protocol on soaking. Especially the newer self-adhesive stamps. Thank you.
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Posted 04/13/2011   10:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add butterfly to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You will find it does not lend itself well to any simple protocol.
Most older stamps are easy to soak and dry, but some very old ones, for example very early Austria are tough. I have destroyed many of the the newer self-adhesives in my attempts to soak them. Mostly I've been successful by waiting a LOOOOONG time with cold water(like hours at a minimum).
Check the SEARCH for previous threads, or others will point them out for you.
Also APS has a web site on soaking and there is a site which give the relative danger level for recent individual US stamps. Sorry, I don't have them bookmarked
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Posted 04/13/2011   11:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add butterfly to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Check the Advice for drying stamps...thread opened by panda.bear. The method of Rod222 is really nice, and I use a modification of it. (cotton pillow cases instead of paper)
I'll get that stuff bookmarked soon and post it if no one else does, as I think soaking is one of the finer aspects of stamp collecting.
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Posted 04/13/2011   12:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Like Butterfly suggests, use the SEARCH function above to find dozens and dozens of threads about soaking.

Some good ones to start with ...
https://goscf.com/t/12550

https://goscf.com/t/6959

https://goscf.com/t/12959

Good luck,
KirkS

[edit to fix typo]
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Edited by kirks - 04/13/2011 12:04 pm
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Posted 04/14/2011   9:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add palaniappan to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
dont soak self adhesive stamps, it always becomes messy, you end up losing some.

warm wishes.
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