I see in auctions sometimes where it lists a stamp and says "Mint no gum". I can understand this on older stamps, but this particular auction was for a stamp from 1957. Did they not put gum on stamps printed then or how does it lose its gum?
Perhaps sometimes a mint stamp (with original gum from the post office) has a difficulty of veing stored in humid wet conditiond or encounters climates that are humid and wet.
this would stick it to whatever else it was stored with, even album pages, or other stamps.
Charkhari was another State that didn't gum its stamps in the 1940s. However, you could use as much post office glue as you liked, to make sure your stamps stayed in place:
Just make sure that if a stamp was supposed to have gum and doesn't, you are ruthless in reducing the price you will pay. Especially one from the last 100 years.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that it is not much of a defect.
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Posted 02/05/2014 11:51 pm
