Soaking Stamps
I haven't soaked stamps in 10 or 12 years. I just got a really nice batch from Barbados and Anne was interested so I figured I'd show her how it's done. I think I first started soaking stamps when I was eight which would be 1974. it was fun back then, but what really wrecked it was all the new self-adhesives that started coming out in the 1990s. Most of those would not soak. Some countries like Finland would soak perfectly well, but it got annoying trying to remember which ones were going to soak and n which ones would not. The process is pretty simple, just soak them in warm water and have a towel ready. Give them about 15 minutes then swirl them around. The easy ones will fall off on their own. Others will slide off the paper easily. Sometimes you do have to peel them a little bit ... i f you do have to peel them remember to pull the paper not the stamp because the one that you pull is the one that's likely to rip. You take the wet stamps and put them on th...