On Paper Stamps - Recent

Hello all...
I am fairly new to stamp collecting and have been using a method that I saw on the web about how to remove the self adhesive stamps off the paper, the using baby powder to removed the sticky part. My question is does anyone really do that?
I have a massive amount of recent stamps that I have been collecting through mailing and people at work, but there is not enough time in the day to remove all the stamps from the paper... So does any one just leave them on the paper and then glue them on to your own self-made pages?

With out pictures I know this could be hard to explain but I will try. I have about 500 of the 2011 Liberty and Flag stamps that are very common in today's mail. I have been putting them on sheets of paper that I have printed with grid lines, after the process I mentioned above. Should I just trim the paper as close to the edges of the stamp and just use any glue to place them on the grid sheets?

How does the community do this with massive amount of current stamps... if you have images please share...

Thanks

I guess my question would be, why bother to save 500 Liberty and Flag stamps at all? Maybe 2% have a really interesting cancel, or a perfin, or maybe a precancel, or freaky centering or mis-registered colors -- the rest, into the wastebasket. Reserve your valuable time for the older and better grade of material you will eventually find.

You can buy older U.S. mixture (regular gum) here for a pittance, and they soak off nicely. We all have barrels and boxes of U.S. mixture of negligible value, but a good source for beginners' first acquisitions.

Or if you don't want them (I'm not saying you don't... Just if you don't) you could donate them (I believe there was a post with a link to a newspaper article about an organization that collected on paper recent stamps and sold them to help finds cure for... Something. Or, if you could send them to me and have them collect dust on my bookshelf for the next 50 years. I don't think that it would be worth it to remove them all from paper, but if you decided to do so you can use watermark fluid (carbon tetrachloride) or a cheaper alternative, lighter fluid (I don't know the chemical name and I have never tried it, but I think it would work fine). I'm sure that members (me included) would happily send you (or sell you) older stamps if you asked.

Thanks for the info...

So far I have managed to win a lot of 1,000 stamps on ebay and I keep trying to get small auctions in oder to keep the cost low and not overwhelm myself with more stamps that I can handle at one time. But most of the time I don't win any auction, so I just keep trying.
I am new to this site, so where would I go to ask about recieving/buying some stamps from other collectors?

Hi Polo Sal,

Welcome to the group!

When you get 50 posts in and have been with the group 14 days you can buy or bid on auctions right here on this group. You can trade here too.

Dave N.
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You want to be able to remove them later for whatever reason I would think so probably use glassine hinges, special pressed paper (thin) with glue on that sometimes peels off afterwards. These come in packets of 1000 hinges.

To cur around the stamps you could used pinking shears or crafting scissors that leave a serrated jagged cut in the paper, kind of resembling crude perforations.

Watch out for neat and interesting cancels and markings though. Don't cut those away, leave them complete if possible.

When cutting around leave about 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch space of paper so you don't accidentally cut into the stamp but also to give the stamp some protection from having it's edges blunted or torn.

DO NOT USE GLUE to attach your stamps..

@ oldtriguy1960 - 50 posts... I will have to get stated on that... haha

@ Puzzler - That is some good tips thanks..

@ stampvirgin - Only useing glue on the ones that are still on paper. Should I still not?

Here is what I have come up with thus far... mind you that the pages are filled on both sides..

That looks nice, good work.

The glue that you shouldn't use is the glue that you can't undo, or unstick. Even those glues, like on 3M Post-It notes are not good for stamps in the long run. I think it is the acid in glue or something like that. Bad for paper and when the paper is stored in closed, unventilated, damp dark areas then you also have mold problems

The glue on hinges and older stamps can be washed or soaked off so is more or less OK.

There could be problems with the newer self adhesive glues also but we haven't had them long enough to tell all the issues that can happen.

I think, for you to glue down the stamps on paper as you have done is OK as you can always cut around the paper page and work at removing the stamps later on, if needed. You have a good display method going there, and cheap too, which is a concern with all of us.

For the more stamp-studier among us (like me) the idea that I can't look at the back of the stamps or see the whole thing is not OK and I would prefer to have the stamp free of any attached paper, but that is just me and my ideas.

Oh, never use scotch tape or clear sealing tape of any sort to stick stamps down as those glues will soak into the stamps paper fiber and not come out without many baths of nasty chemicals. Pretty well ruins a stamp to use those tapes.

What sort of glue are you using now to stick the stamps-on-paper down with by the way?

For these I have just used a simple elmer's stick glue... but I think I am done. I will simply place the extras I have of these stamps in a photo box or some of those glassine envelops...

Now I am going to tackle on the order stamps and see what I can muster in time...