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Posted 09/13/2024   08:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nobody soak them never, this stamps never seen envelope, loads of them, I cut them myself just to fit them in album. They have random. Cancellation, but not all. Off them has been franked., loads of them are. Mint, w no Gum on reverse, I have all values of Wildings.

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Posted 09/13/2024   09:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add dynamode to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hector.

It has been explained to you many times in this thread, but you are not listening. The experts here are being very patient with you, but that will end soon, then you Will get no replies to anything in the future. You will be ignored.
If a stamp has marks on the front side, it is USED. It may have gum on the back, but it is still a used stamp.
There are exceptions, like a pre cancelled stamp (look it up on here, use the search function). They have what looks like cancels and are fully gummed, so for a newby it maybe confusing.
Buy a decent stamp catalogue, Scott or gibbons, and read all the boring stuff at the beginning. You will learn a lot about stamp production and usage.
The chances of you having just one stamp that is printed on the gum side, is about the same odds as winning the lottery.
Do not waste your time or money sending any of the stamps you have shown in for certification, you will just be disappointed when they come back as normal stamps.


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Posted 09/13/2024   09:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Just because hard to belive, it's doesn't mean it can't be true, I sending you mint stamps, with no Gum on reverse, nobody touch them sinse day they has been collected also, please show. A bit of respect, I know hat are precancelled stamps are,
Your only. One explanation on my mint stamps, are that's someone been soak a gum out.

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Posted 09/13/2024   11:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hektor,

stop this nonsense. All but a very few British stamps you have shown were photogravure issues printed on the web. This, especially, is the case for the Wildings.

They CANNOT HAVE BEEN PRINTED ON THE GUMMED SIDE!
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Posted 09/13/2024   1:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I still didn't get answer.why mint stamps, having no Gum. On reverse,?
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Posted 09/13/2024   2:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
1. Used stamps that are not on cover must have been soaked off the cover at some time, thus losing all gum.
2. If there is no cancellation, it does not mean they were not used. If they do not have gum, they are likely to have been missed by the canceller.
3. Collectors - long ago - also removed gum from mint stamps to prevent bleeding of the gum. Especially in tropical countries this bleeding may happen, and it may happen with stamps from tropical countries.
4. In some cases, such as Spain, covers with a mixture of stamps were sold by souvenir shops or minimarkets to holiday makers who wanted to send those home or add them to their collections. These were uncancelled. Collectors, subsequently, may have soaked them off those covers to fill album spaces. Something similar may have ocurred with exhibition souvenirs,
5. Gum deteriorates if stamps have not been stored correctly,
6. Some collectors stuck mint stamps in albums. Later, they were soaked from album leaves and lost their gum.

You, basically, have extremely cheap used stamps and many unused stamps that have lost all value since the gum was removed, or used but not cancelled stamps.

Please, stop posting the same garbage again and again.
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Edited by NSK - 09/13/2024 2:08 pm
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Posted 09/13/2024   2:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's my short answer:

Cancelled in any way --- this is a used stamp (may or may not have some gum on the back)
Uncancelled stamp --- may or may not have gum on the back

An uncancelled stamp that has gum on the back, is probably considered a Mint Stamp. However, some of these stamps were once on a cover, were not cancelled while on that cover (for whatever reason), and someone in the past was able to "sweat" them off the cover, preserving some if not all of the original gum. It would be difficult, but not impossible, to claim that this stamp is actually mint.
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Posted 09/13/2024   2:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
By the way, the green Brazilian and the lower of the Indian stamps have cancellations. They were used.
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Posted 09/13/2024   2:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I am absolutely dumbfounded that this thread is now on its 8th page of silliness.
I almost looked to see if this thread had been started on April 1.

Clearly, two of the stamps in the most recent image have cancels (an NSK noted as I was preparing these images below):



And the two central ones are precancelled, which means gum is of no relevance.

I would recommend the moderators bring it to a merciful end and lock this thread.
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Edited by John Becker - 09/13/2024 2:43 pm
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Posted 09/14/2024   8:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank for letting me posting.
Just wondering, why some of my stamps looks like this one on back side.
The gum is very shine and I can see what is printed on front? Is that normal?
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Posted 09/14/2024   9:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PReynolds to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
1) Some stamp gum is shiny, some is matte, and some is in between. This is very shiny.

2) You can see the image from the back because the paper is thin and/or heavy inks/engraving were used.

Both perfectly normal.
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Posted 09/14/2024   10:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for your answer just wondering because stamps from same country all another's having different gum, are these are normal as well? That's my last foto for tonight's, thank you

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Posted 09/15/2024   12:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
All normal. Nothing special. I hope that you are learning something from this thread.
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Posted 09/15/2024   08:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
All your comments and reviewes are very valuable for me. And I am really appreciate for this. I have just 2 stamps for review for today if that's OK.they very beautiful however, Have nice Sunday everybody.

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Posted 09/15/2024   08:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hektor to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply



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Can't see any cancellation signs, and gum on revers
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