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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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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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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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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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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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By the way, the green Brazilian and the lower of the Indian stamps have cancellations. They were used. |
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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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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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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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All normal. Nothing special. I hope that you are learning something from this thread. |
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