Rich60 wrote
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What I believe the original poster was asking was why are a large number of Third Reich issues - especially Hitler heads found in mint condition but without gum. I have entire pages of TR stock that have no gum. My theory is that in the aftermath of the war to prevent the use of TR stamps as regular postage in postwar Germany vast numbers of mint stamps were washed to prevent their use. Former Third Reich stamps were overprinted in many towns and regions to allow their use. But either acting German postal officials or the Allied Military governments wanted to discourage the use of anything that remained from the National Socialist era or reminded anyone of the same. Remember also that Germany was largely destroyed by Allied bombing and the Red Army - chaos and confusion reigned in postwar Germany for several years until the Allied Military Govt and later the Marshall Plan began to help restore the infrastructure, industry and living conditions.
If anyone else has any theories or info to add - I would love to hear it as I have wondered as well about stamps with no gum.
it's not to discourage, it's simply as Revstampman wrote.
the glue they used was very quick to soften from both heat and moisture.
you often see fingerprints in the gum on german reich and early west/east and berlin stamps.
and german collectors are extremely picky, and they can afford to be, because of the huge stocks <> decline in stamp collectors.
Classicstamps wrote
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In my experience, the market value for no gum is about 10% of catalog value for better items (and complete series). For common material Mint no gum it is even less. For MNH the market value is 20-35% of catalog value.
this is not my experience, MNH reich stamps are quite possible to get as low as 1-2% up to 10% for the more expensive ones.
MH stamps cost even less.
Area66 mentioned he didn't care about the gum or backside, he collects the design and I have to agree.
problem with this is that most of the world do not agree, which I believe is because of indoctrination. most young collectors are schooled to think a certain way.
and it's a pity. it IS the stamp we collect?
Posted 06/02/2017 7:22 pm
