Sticky Modern Stamps - Now What?

Being new at this, I have soaked off a whole bunch of stamps that I shoulda left alone. My dining room table is (still, after three + months) covered in dish towels with stamps all over them that I can't move or they will stick together.

Since I can't go back, does anyone have a suggestion for how to save the situation? I read various solutions/ideas on this forum last summer, but I don't want to re-soak at this point unless someone has found a miracle cure for gum: first time around, I had no luck the with scalding hot water or with extended soaking. I tried an eraser on a few and got nowhere ...

Honestly, I was thinking of just sticking them all onto some kind of paper (maybe white Kleenex????) and putting them out of sight.

Is there a better solution, or should I just give up and throw them all out at this point? "They" are mostly very recent definitives (GW 20c, bells, flags, multiple hues of the presorted eagles, the odd Tiffany -- and finally, several Helen Hayes).

Thanks.

AFAIK these are not salvageable, ditch them and re start would be my
advice, however you may be able to de gum them with
white spirits.

There is a youtube article getting around that
explains the methodology of soaking self sticks
made by a New Zealander.

It has been linked on SCF

It works extremely well, and I release all mine using this method
long term damage is not known using white spirits.

What you are experiencing is just learning, we all have
these moments during are trip down philately lane...

Here it is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMcVYgIZjM

I'll download a copy so I don't have to search again

Sadly rod222 is absolutely correct on both accounts. If it were me I'd toss 'em in the bin and be done with it. Good luck with whatever you decide to do and keep us updated if you do find something that works as necessity is the mother of invention, so who knows you may help out a lot of others? -Cheers!

I really hate self adhesives. I always wait until I have a huge group before I soak them and I use alcohol, after about 5 drinks they're not so bad.

Canadian self adhesives soak like regular stamps, so no problem there.

With other countries I rub the back of the paper the stamp is stuck to with acetone (available at any hardware or paint store) with a Q-tip and then it peels off. Yes it is sticky. When it dries, I stick it to acid free card stock, cut to size. Now it is ready to hinge into the album .

I have tried it with U.S., Australian, G.B. and New Zealand stamps.

this method seems to work fine on us stamps.
i used it of the state flags and banner stamps of the us that I had some trouble in my past.
i used rensonol and all seems fine.

That's neat Bee See. Have you tried it with some gray or black card stock? To show the perfs better?

I do not like self adhesives because I keep remembering the US National Archives article I read years ago about the problem of cold flow of the adhesive.

And I have encountered some mint Canadian booklets from around ten years ago where the adhesive is drying up and not sticky anymore and the stamps curl or want to.

Has anyone tried John's method for Australian 55c (I think they were) from his 'We still see stamps . . .' thread where you soak for a bit, then completely dry the stamp with paper still attached, and then soak again? I should experiment myself I suppose.

Jans,
I have read on SCF here that putting some corn starch on the backs of the still sticky stamps works OK but haven't tried it myself (yet).

Gee I sound lazy. Do we have an smiley with a straw hat on and a fishing pole?

That is gray I used!

Indeed, probably that is why I can see the perfs so clearly! My apologies for my slip in observation. I had thought that you perhaps used a darker shade of gray on your pages now, but my memory was not as good as I thought.