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Hi guys! I have an issue with an ebay seller. I bought a batch of modern "unused no gum" stamps. When I received my order, I realized half of the batch is kind of yellow (because of the soaking, I guess). Was the seller correct in his description? Are they still "unused"? What amount of yellowness is acceptable for an "unused" stamp? Thank you! |
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| Edited by emilio911 - 11/27/2019 01:13 am |
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It's accurate, but, as a description, not accurate enough. I'd have added a note about the colouring. It's unlikely that soaking of itself would have imparted a yellow tinge, unless the stamps were previously stuck to something whose colour bled into the stamps during the soaking process. Show us a picture of a normal one and a yellow one side-by-side. |
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No amount of yellowness is acceptable for an unused stamp unless it suits your purpose.  |
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An awful lot of stamps washed from the plain brown envelopes left to soak after the gum frees, become yellowish to tan from the paper coloring transferring to the stamp paper. That said, unused no gum should mean just that. A clean stamp with no gum.
Coloring of any sort should have been noted and that generally means used stamps that were uncancelled and washed off envelopes. |
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It's accurate, but, as a description, not accurate enough. I'd have added a note about the colouring. It's unlikely that soaking of itself would have imparted a yellow tinge, unless the stamps were previously stuck to something whose colour bled into the stamps during the soaking process. Show us a picture of a normal one and a yellow one side-by-side. Please see the picture attached. Thanks  |
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I regard an 'unused' stamp as mint but without gum. But definitions can vary. |
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An unused stamp, by definition, has not been used. A stamp that has been used but escaped cancellation is a used stamp. Many postal services do not (always) cancel stamps. It is quite common in Europe to receive a franked letter without any cancellation.
Unless these stamps were issued without gum and never used, they most likely are used. |
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Looks to me the yellow could be the tagged frame around the image.
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Looks to me the yellow could be the tagged frame around the image.
Interesting opinion, I had not considered that. Agree, some Canadian stamps look awful with their tagging. Once again, a poor scan, does little to establish a meaningful identification. |
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| Edited by rod222 - 02/11/2020 8:55 pm |
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Now I am going to question the OP mention of yellow. Is it only on the back of the stamp? Most Canadian tagged stamps from the last couple of years have an almost clear tagging that shows yellow or green under the UV light, but normally not that noticible otherwise.
Better scans would help Emillio911 |
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