Do You Consider This Mint/Used..??

Take a look at this Post Card dated 1875

1- Stamp from post office..MINT
2- Stamp not used but hinged...MINT
3- Post card not mailed with no cancel..???
I don't think it was ever mailed.

Keep this in mind before you give an opinion.





Was going to be sent from Issac Silver Newmarket Ontario to R MacAulay in Montreal Quebec.

Also looked like the Post Card was printed on Horz. ribbed paper.



Robert

Robert, it could very well have been mailed. Lack of a cancel does not prove much?

Peter

Nice card Robert!

I would say it was used but not postmarked. I've no idea if it was ever posted but I suspect it was.

I could imagine that Mr Munro sent out 100 of these cards that day from his office in Toronto and the post office clerk missed this one in the pile.

I would classify this as used, regardless of a cancel or not.

The Isaac Silver house in Newmarket is a fine historic building. Years ago I lived a few blocks away from there and often walked by it. Interestingly, the house was built in 1896, 21 years after this postcard. Apparently Isaac recovered well from declaring bankruptcy, in order to build one of the nicest houses in town.

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep...aspx?id=9806

Initial comments are confusing. There is no stamp - and obviously, therefore, there cannot be a 'hinge'.

It's a postal card. I would call it 'used' because it is written on. 'Mint' would imply it was in the same condition as when purchased from the post office.

It isn't cancelled, so no way to determine if ever actually got postal usage.

The basic answer to the main question, in my mind, would be used...

Agree with mdroth, Robert

René

Never mailed, hand delivered, mint

This shows the limitations of the rigid classifications mint, used etc and why we now have hinged mint etc. I'd describe the card as "preprinted card used, no cancellation"
Of course it might be easier to dispose of the card and get one that fits a description properly!

I've sold hundreds of items of Canadian postal stationery. Material went through quite often without cancellation. This is a commercial mailing and the fact alone that the back is printed makes it used.

Good opinions guys..
Now lets think out of the box.

Collins dictionary classifies ""mint stamp"" as a stamp in perfect condition

Wikipedia classifies ""mint stamp"" as a mint stamp is one which is in its original state of issue, is unused, has never been mounted and has full gum, if issued with gum

Educalingo also classifies ""mint stamp"" a mint stamp is a stamp which is in its original state of issue, is unused, has never been mounted and has full gum, if issued with gum.

Now look at Wikipedia says has never been mounted and has full gum..According to that ANY stamp that has its gum removed like what we call HINGED is really not a mint stamp

NOW let me take you out of the box thinking..
1 - If I took a mint stamp and hinged it, is I still mint..?
2 - If I took a stamp and in the corner put my initial..is it still
mint..?

Now, think about this...A mint sheet printed by Canada Post..Now if we take it home and tear off one stamp..Now we have one stamp removed and placed in an album...It is NOT as defined as Wikipedia says..a mint stamp is one which is in its original state of issue...This single stamp is NOT in its original state...Any opinions guys..

Robert

It is used. As opposed to turning to Wiki, look in stamp catalogs for a definition. From Scott catalog in the postal card section,



I do not think that the term 'mint' is typically used for postal cards, they are considered either 'Unused' or 'Used'.
Don

Wert - there's no box!

You're looking up irrelevant terms in this case. It is a post card - there is NO stamp! No stamp - no gum.

So any comparisons to actual stamps, issued with gum, are just apples to watermelons...

But to answer your questions that have nothing to do with your post card:




1 - No
2 - No

Sorry - forgot your other question:

When you go to the post office to buy one stamp from a sheet, the postal clerk removes the one stamp from the sheet & sells it to you. The one single stamp from the sheet, as delivered to you at the postal counter, is a mint stamp....

(Until you start drawing on it!)

What box? I didn't see a box????

Ok guys..I see you are not taking me serious, making fun and all that... ok end of post...Have a good evening.

Robert