unsticking self-stick stamps

Hi Pedro,
I use mineral spirits (odorless) on my US stamps. It is also know as
paint thinner. You can get a gallon of it at the hardware store for
$6-8. Soak stamps for a couple of hours, then peel from the paper. I
keep a supply of paper towels handy to rub the remaining gum from the
back. Works, and you have a perfectly gumless used stamp. Leaving
the paper on them is astetically horrid. To each his own.

Wolf-==-

On Apr 4, 3:41*am, "Pedro" wrote:
Hello all,
* Can anybody suggest me the best way to remove paper from self-stick
stamps? I've read that lighter fluid works very well in most cases, and it
was good up until now. Some recent self-adhesive U.S. stamps I've received
on letters are almost impossible to unstick without breaking them even after
several hours, if not days, submerged into lighter fluid. So i have tried
turpentine as an alternative because it is also an organic solvent, but in
some cases it is useless too.

best regards,
Pedro