stuck-together mess

[widmerpoolmycat]

Ugh. When I went to retrieve the German stamps from my inherited Modern Postage Stamp album, I found a stuck-together mess.  Shame on me and my family forever!

Once I pulled out the free stamps and clumps, I was left with this:



A few minutes Google searching suggests that these troubled stamps are (or might once have been) valuable to collectors.  So here's an odd request: will you please tell me that these look like entirely ordinary, unimportant stamps?  And that I need not worry about having contributed to their ruin?  Fingers crossed--

Thanks for considering--

Widmer

[stampie78]

Jun 3, 2023 15:05:57 GMT -5 widmerpoolmycat said:

Ugh. When I went to retrieve the German stamps from my inherited Modern Postage Stamp album, I found a stuck-together mess.  Shame on me and my family forever!

Once I pulled out the free stamps and clumps, I was left with this:



A few minutes Google searching suggests that these troubled stamps are (or might once have been) valuable to collectors.  So here's an odd request: will you please tell me that these look like entirely ordinary, unimportant stamps?  And that I need not worry about having contributed to their ruin?  Fingers crossed--

Thanks for considering--

Widmer

The ones shown in the pic are indeed minimal value stamps so if you want to keep them intact just trim around and soak them off the paper.

They won't have any gum left but the stamps will be just fine to collect.

[khj]

For future reference, be careful not to store albums laying flat -- have them standing up. Even standing up, don't have them tightly packed on the bookshelf. It's combination pressure, humidity, and temperature that gets the gummed stamps stuck.

Yeah, I learned the hard way as well.

[angore]

At least the pages do not look wrinkled.