Collected on behalf

A plastic bag marked 'Stamps' & 'William'. Collected by a friend of the family for me. How exciting!
The contents turn out to be Japanese. Modern and mostly blue. Still on paper, clipped from envelopes . . .

A little too closely in one or two cases.

Non-collectors don't usually realize that the tiniest imperfection such as a crease or a single tooth missing ruins a stamp to all intents and purposes.

But let's not dwell on the negatives; let's get these into luke-warm water . . .

And after soaking, let the stamps dry. Sometimes underneath the stamps the postal value might be written on the envelope. I tend to save these as well as the stamps.