I have had a "drying book" for awhile now and have never really tried it, but always had the idea that "I'd get to it someday".
Today was that day!
I must say, it worked perfectly and actually dried and flattened the stamp absolutely perfectly, and kind of brought it back to "mint-ness" to some extent!
It looked so good, it could have been reused on a letter, as there are no marks on the face at all.
All in all, it was a great experience and I will definitely use the drying book in the future.
What do you think? Do you like or use a drying book at all?
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I did the same thing: bought two drying books for use some day and, a couple of years later, stumbled into some day.
And, yes, my Desert Magic drying books worked like magic.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who, in earlier times, would lay stamps out on sheets of paper, add a pile of books and, a few days later, find some of the stamps dry-welded to the sheets of paper)
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"I collect stamps today precisely the way I collected stamps when I was ten years old."
It's counterintuitive, but for years — decades! — I have placed stamps that I've soaked between pages of any old paperback book and put the paperbacks under a couple of heavy hardbound books. The stamps always come out as flat as the proverbial filbert and clean as a whistle. (Printer's ink is oil based, so water isn't going to dissolve the ink. I suppose that some contaminants in the paper could be transferred to the stamps, but I still have nearly all of those stamps and they're fine.
I like my method better, just grab a paper towel from my wife's kitchen, lay the soaked stamps face down on it, set it under the ceiling fan and ten minutes later the stamps are ready to go into an stockbook, the following day they are as flat as flat can be.