Welcome to the 7th episode of the Place Stamp Here Show!
In this episode, see a stamp lose its ink, scotch tape be removed from a stamp, learn the differences between a Scott 3122 and a 3122E, and how to identify a 3126, 3127, 3128, 3129, 3128a and 3129a. We also accidentally find a way to remove cancels from stamps This is the 4th part in an album fill series where we’ll be going through 3100+ self-adhesive stamps put out by the USA. This episode covers the 23 or so self-adhesive stamps issued by the USPS in 1997. At the end of the last episode, we were 63 for 77 in finding all the stamps so far. We go through an envelope that has a bunch of stamps dated 1997, sorting them and removing them from paper and then choosing a suitable example and putting them into my stamp album.
Also in this episode, we update some 1995 and 1996 stamps from the previous 2 installments of this series from an album I bought recently online. All 23 of the stamps in this episode did soak off with water, but the X-1 Supersonic Flight stamp and especially the holly contemporary “Seasons Greetings” stamp put up a lot of resistance. We do soak some stamps off with chemicals… in addition to Goof Off, Goo Gone, Pure Citrus and other methods, we introduce using 151 proof Everclear grain alcohol and acetone (aka nail polish remover) with varying results.