Mounting Self-Adhesive Stamps

What do you do with self-adhesive stamps? I've decided to use Scott mounts (black) in my album, and I am guessing I should trim the backing as close to the perf (or edge if not perfed) of the stamp as I can get. Is that what's recommended?

Any bright ideas?

Jan

Thats how the folks in my stampclub are collecting the newer ones

Hi Jan,

Well, it's really up to you. For my recent USA that don't soak well in water, I soak them in 90% Alcohol. as right now I'd rather have them off paper. But it is a lot of extra work and time so I may eventually change my mind and just cut them close to the perfs. I have been using the black background mounts, but now that is getting expensive (to me) I end up spending more on mounts than I do on stamps and that just seems wierd so now I'm trying to get some hinges to mount some used stamps I have. I have a bunch of USA used coil PNC single I need to mount into a USA PNC single homemade album. I'm just waiting on some hinges to begin.

Dave N.
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I clip the self adhesive stamps as close as practicable,I do leave a slight edge to the backing paper just to be safe, and mount them in a regular album using mounting squares , which are quarter inch square mounts, doulble sided self adhesive. The box says scrapbook size. Since they are not directly attached to the stamp itself, I do not worry about it. My rational for this is that I have been a postmark collector for many years and that I use these types of adhesives to mount the postmarks which are 2x4's. Basically, you have a stamp "on piece". Because you have a sa stamp you might want to experimant with differnt adhesives such as a school glue stick. Or a dab of rubber cement or type of glue that can be rubbed off. Now I know that many collectors and philatelists are in horror of this type mounting. However, these items are very, very current and have no more value even as scott values are concerned. The scott value for these in the catalogs are simply the charge for handling and processing. EXcept if the item might be an error or variety, then I would handle it in a mount. JUst consider the millions of stamps that had been used as postage and that eventually got trashed. I realize that this an unorthodox approach, but it works very well for the common used stamp.
Joel

Thanks for the input, fellas.

Jan