I was soaking some Japanese kiloware the other day and I was really impressed with how easily they all came off the paper. Particularly the self-adhesive stamps. I've removed self-adhesive stamps from Japan from paper before but never enough of them to really appreciate how well designed they are.
The adhesive layer is separate from the face layer of the stamp and the two are bonded together with a water-soluble adhesive. The only reason I can think of for designing the stamps this way is so collectors can easily remove them from their sticky backing. It took no more effort to remove these stamps from paper as it did to remove the non self-adhesive stamps. They came off beautifully every time.
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Hello. You don’t seems to have difficulties while soaking this special issue ? I have no problem with the gum part, but for this issue (and lots of modern ones) the picture side shows lot of wrinkles : the ink surface breaks. Did you encounter this problem too ?
Looking at examples of this issue I have, I do see that several show slight wrinkling. I think the colour and shine on the paper makes it more apparent. I have never done a good job of drying and pressing stamps once removed from paper so I've just assumed that is the cause.
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