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Posted 05/23/2020   2:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wonfish to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I recently bought the above. The gum is awfully shiny and new looking considering the stamp is as almost as old as I am, and I am far from shiny and new looking. Its supposedly OG. Could it be? I know that they were printed flat plate and there won't be gum bars.
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Posted 05/23/2020   3:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A closeup pic of the reverse side of the piece would be necessary for opinions to be worthwhile.
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Posted 05/23/2020   3:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It should have shiny gum, the back should be a bright white.
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Posted 05/27/2020   1:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wonfish to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks. I looked closely and could even see slight impression marks of the design from the press. If it had been regummed the surface couldn't have the repeated pattern. (I mean I suppose it could if someone really wanted to. But the stamp isn't worth the time.) It just startled me to see it so fresh and shiny. And it was a good price.
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Posted 05/27/2020   5:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jogil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This stamp was flat plate dry printed and line perforated 11. It was one of the last U.S. flat plate printed stamps.
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