For soaking, I use a large pottery bowl, shown in Figure 2, filled with very warm water. I immerse the stamps in the water and wait for them to release.
Soaking Stamps, Choosing an Album, and Using Tongs.
TIP 1: SOAKING STAMPS
BEFORE SOAKING: ...
Soaking Stamps
You can always find stamps in your own mail box, or you can ask a local business to let you have stamps from their mail. But when you want to remove a stamp from an envelope, you will need to soak the stamp off.
Soaking Stamps
How to separate stamps from envelopes by soaking.
Preserving Your Stamps ...
Soaking off - the removal of surplus adhering paper from used postage stamps by immersion in plain water.
'Socked on the nose' - a stamp with a centred, legible, and full town and date cancel. See CDS.
Sock-on-the-nose cancel ...
Soaking: The process of removing stamps from envelopes.
Souvenir card: A philatelic card issued for collecting purposes.
Souvenir sheet: A small sheet of stamps one of each stamp of a set.
Soaking - Removal of stamps from envelope paper.
Souvenir Card - A philatelic card, which has no postal use and which, is usually created for a special event.
Souvenir Page - A U.S.P.S. announcement of a new stamp issue.
Soaking: Removal of stamps from envelope paper. Most stamps may be safely soaked in water. Fugitive inks, however, will run in water, and chalky-surfaced papers will lose their designs entirely, so some knowledge of stamps is a necessity.
Soaking
Whenever you touch a stamp, you should remember that one day, it may be worth a lot of money. So you should always handle your stamps carefully.
Soaking: Now that you have gathered some stamps from envelopes that came through the mail how are you going to get the stamps off the envelopes? First you should decide if you really want to remove the stamp.
Soaking stamps has a few risks. (especially watch for stamps that are heavily colored or canceled with red or green ink, self adhesive stamps or stamps on colored paper - set them aside for individual treatment).
Soaking same-colored stamps in one bowl reduces the risk of staining. Some stamp inks have the tendency to “bleed' when you soak them.
The method I use is soaking.
This is how :
1. Cut the corner of the envelope off close to the stamp. Be careful you don't cut the stamp.
2. Separate out the stamps that are on colored envelopes as these might run and color the other stamps.
You will find that the stamps peel off easily after about 45 minutes of soaking. Some of them would have separated by themselves. Peel off the stubborn ones using stamp tongs (tweezers).
Soaking a stamp in water is the usual way of removing it from the postal matter. Water will dissolve the glue used as the adhesive but it also weakens the bonds of the paper's fibers.
By and large the soaking process described in the foregoing will not hurt even the most valuable stamp. Just make sure it is not printed in fugitive ink or on chalky surface paper.
Soaking: the process where stamps are removed from the paper on which they were affixed; place stamps with envelope paper attached, face down in pan of lukewarm water, when soaked, they should be placed face down on any absorbent paper.
On Paper: Stamps (usually postally used) that are affixed to portions of original envelope or wrapper. Often used to describe stamps prior to soaking.
Analine. A term used in connection with color descriptions, particularly mauve and carmine shades. This type of dye is quite soluable in water and causes the stamps to have an overall pinkish shade after soaking.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Album, Cover, Cancel
  
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