Stamps on boxes

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   Hope this is the right place for this... I'm going to start organizing Colin's stamps and I'm wondering what most of you have done with the stamps that are on boxes.  Do you keep them attached to the cardboard, steam them off, or something else?

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Susanne Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Susanne Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Stamps on boxes Posted: 06 March 2011 at 02:45
	Hope this is the right place for this... I'm going to start organizing Colin's stamps and I'm wondering what most of you have done with the stamps that are on boxes. Do you keep them attached to the cardboard, steam them off, or something else?

Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 02:56
	Tricky one for me too. So far I have left them on the card, but would like to be able to put them on the appropriate album page, which means removal. Normally I would use a minimal amount of steam from a kettle on the back of the paper, and carefully peel the paper down keeping the stamp flat. I don't think this will work as well with card. Removal also messes up the cancellations. One bit of advice. Dont get any moisture near those imperforate DW ones. They may have been done on an inkjet and colours could run! That happened to me on one label from Wincanton (delivered on a rainy day) and a Vue 86 days to Feb 14th label! Both were disasters of first magnitude. I may just cut around the stamps on piece to mount in my album. I have other stuff that is hard to decide how to handle in a collection. There's a piece of brown wrapping paper about A3 size liberaly adorned with Laernu labels and cancellations.
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Susanne Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Susanne Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 03:03
	So far, I've left them attached and cut out around them. Same with the various lables. And, yes, same here with the cancellations! I have a box completely covered in them and I'm wondering how to handle that.

Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 03:06
	latex gloves so they dont smudge?
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 05:24
	actually now I'm intrigued by this. Any chance of a picture of the box with its franks and stamps. And pray tell us what you got that needed a box to be sent to you!
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Susanne Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Susanne Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 05:44
	Yep, I'll get a picture for you! Most of mine come in boxes. Maybe because they're going overseas?

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	I think Susanne is talking about the brown paper wrapping I re-used from the Wadfest 2009 event. It was the last bit and almost perfect size for the box with a bit of adjustment and a lot of sticky tape! I don't think I have sent out the original white boxes since the housefire, they were one of the big mushy piles that went straight in the skip. If I have then it would have been a box already made up and used to store other stampy bits around the office.
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Keith Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Mint Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Derbyshire, UK Status: Offline Points: 1119	Post Options Post Reply Quote Keith Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 07:10
	I leave the boxes and stamps intact. And then I use the boxes to store Colin's stamps and covers. and the wrapping paper is laying around on the back of my desk in a pile of its own. Cunning or what? Keith

Susanne Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Susanne Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 09:11


Susanne Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Susanne Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2011 at 09:18
	Here it is. I have a handful of them, but only a few like this. I did cut one up today, so I have lots of little bits of cardboard with fun cancellations. What about the Laernu labels? I noticed they weren't on the Ask Me About Stamps site. Not considered Cinderellas?