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I believe that they are stuck together. The quick answer is no, there is nothing that will save them as mint. However, you can try 1. a sweat box - it will soften the gum and make it possible to save the the stamps as disturbed gum in some cases. 2. Put them in the freezer - this must have worked for someone but does not work very often 3. throw them in a bucket of water and soak them apart.
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Sorry, I had to edit some more details to make it more understable, they stuck to eachother |
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First, do not store mint sheet files flat. Store them on the edge with the spine vertical to avoid pressure on the gum side of the stamps. Store in a non-humid area. At times such stamps may not stick to the glassine but will to other stamps; thus avoid no glassine between stamp panes and blocks. If the mint sheet files need to be flat, don't stack them and down place other items of weight on top.
These stamps, as shown, without gum or with disturbed gum are not really collected by most collectors. Thus I suggested removing the individual stamps which are not stuck and saving those if you wish. For the balance use a sweat box (high humidity enclosed area to then allow the gum to soften to allow separation without tearing. Or just pitch each group of stuck stamps into water, soak, separate, dry flat, buy a glue stick and use for postage. The sweat box normally leaves enough gum to avoid the need for a glue stick.
It is sad to see what happen but be assured that you are not the first or only one of use who learn this lessen the hard way. You have my sympathy. |
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Luckily the value for those stamps is only face value basically. I'd replace them and toss the stuck together ones. Selling a plate block of 4 or 6 you might get a dollar, with no gum even less. |
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Toss? Why? Just soak them, pat dry, and apply glue to the back to use as postage. Or simply give away any ones with disturbed gum since they're such small value and essentially not worth anything |
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Quote: US stamps don't have much use as postage for someone in the UK They can be swapped with a collector in the US for UK mint postage. Or donated to an organization which handles US material such as The Stamps for the Wounded. https://www.stampsforthewounded.org/ |
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