Drying A Large Batch Of Stamps

Does anyone have an easy method for drying a batch of 1000's of stamps quickly ?? I bought a lot and they are all stuck together.They are used . A drying book can take days just to put all the stamps in it plus the drying time ?? Thanks


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Your observation is correct. That's why I only soak about 100 at a time. YMMV.

Opinion.
No such thing, results ..bad back, boredom, damaged stamps.

As above, do 100 at a time and enjoy your results.

If you use the drying sandwich method, you can stack books up, and leave to dry, when you do another 100, place underneath the stack, and take the top one off, and mount/sort the 100.
Make life easy, squeezy on yourself.

Avoid soaking duplicates...why waste time?

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Years ago I soaked thousands of Australian stamps off their paper (pre peel & stick days) in one day.

Wait for a hot day, have plenty of floor/bed space, lay them face down on black & white newspaper. They will dry very quickly. Have fun sorting them all out!

I soak duplicates for trading material.

I can find time to soak (and put into a drying book) ~100 stamps. More than that is problematic. Moreover, I start to get bored. YMMV.

Throw a BIG hand full of wet stamps in a large colander and pull a hairnet tightly over the top. Then place an electric fan on the side and blow all that moisture right off those stamps. Don't worry about trifles!

I usually do the newspaper method. Some/most curl and not be flat. But if it is something I need flat afterwards I give them a short bath and stick it on blotter paper or drying book. The other thing is if you dry it on newspaper most of the way and then stick them in between regular sheets of paper with something flat and heavy on top they still will flatten out just the same.

Sure ----You can use the method we used years ago to dry dope . Once we were out in a field picking the tops off plants and had a bushel basket filled but no way to dry it out to smoke .

I came up with the idea to take it home and put it all in a pillow case . We close the end by folding it over and stapled it shut with a stapler .

Then we threw it in the clothes dryer for 1 hour ---one bit of caution there and not stand next to the exhaust fan if your drying dope . Go to the store and buy some long neck beer bottles and relax for one hour .....after a coulpe of beers or was it a lot of beers ......don't remember everything that well

Your pillow case of thousands stamps will be dry and ready for mounting into stockbooks .


See what you learn on a stamp chatroom .

I've never used a drying book in my life. I just have a set of tea towels exclusively for stamps (wouldn't use ones from the kitchen, in case of contamination from grease etc).

Lay them out flat on tables or floor or bed, and just rest the wet stamps on them. Give it a while and they'll be bone dry.