Is It Just Me, Or Is It Regummed For Everyone?

Yes, I borrowed the title from the "Is it just me or down for everyone" online tools that check to see if a website is down, or is it just down for me. There was an online post I read recently regarding how to detect regumming, and it was somewhat revelatory as some of the techniques described were to a degree different than those I have been using.

I thought it might be both fun and education to post images of stamps different members suspect of being regummed, and learn from observations other member make about the stamp. Hope others follow suit.

Below I have included an image of a stamp I believe may be at least partially regummed. Thoughts and comments?

Here are 2 more stamps I suspect of being regummed. Thanks for all comments.

Suspected RG'd stamp #4. Sorry about the state of the image at the bottom perfs. This was how it was supplied to me by the seller.

Possible RG'd stamp #5

Pardon my ignorance, but what is regumming? I'm a rookie collector, just looking at getting back into the hobby after a 41 year lay off.

stampguy, regumming is exactly what the word says. The stamp has new gum applied. It is something that most philatelists frown upon.

Peter

Difficult topic: I agree that these stamps look regummed . Gum accumulation in the fraying of the perf tips/edges is one hint. However a good regum job can fool the best expertizing service. Buyer beware

To me the first one is OG.
Seconde one regummed. Accumulation on the perforation edge.

The first one looks regummed. By the lower right side, there's gum within the perf holes. The perf tips are mostly gum soaked.

Second pair: look okay. The little thin kills the value on the right stamp; regumming a thinned stamp would leave a big mess. An expensive stamp would be repaired before regumming.

#3 Lots of gum piled up at the bottom. Quite possibly regummed, may be just disturbed gum. In any case, we're getting closer to no gum/regummed pricing with this.

#4 Gum is piled up around the perfs. Regummed or disturbed gum.

May I ask, what stamps are we looking at here? There could be differences in gum color and texture/appearance, too.

hy-brasil these are stamps from Surinam and Netherlands Indies c. 1930s-1940s.

Thank you, shermae.

I only have a few mint for those colonies, all litho stamps. For those, I'd expect a very fine crackly look to the gum, semi-gloss (not real shiny), even though it is smooth to the touch. Hard to tell here from a scan. Netherlands litho stamps of the period are probably the same, though I would expect to see overall yellowing to browning on a lot of Suriname and Indies stamp gum of that period.

So, in scan #2, the unevenness of gum may just be from imperfect storage/old age. And for overprinted stamps, the gum can get screwed up, sometimes like this. Scan #3/stamp #4 might be excusable on that basis.