Hi everybody, I don't find this variant in my Scott 2004 specialized. Perf. is12, gum, hinge. It appears to be L05. My old Scott says that L03-L06 are ungummed. This stamp HAS gum. Is it listed in the later editions?
My picture is a scan which doesn't show the gloss. The shine appears at a certain angle. There is full gum on the back, plus of course the hinge. A photograph would reveal it but I can't take one now.
Perhaps someone gummed it in the past? (Can't really call it REgumming if it was never gummed in the first place). Apparently it was a fairly common practice back in the day to "improve" a mint or mint-appearing stamp.
Adding gum has always been a popular way to alter stamps. Sometimes the people doing the altering are not very knowledgeable. So they make alterations in ways that never existed originally.
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Posted 08/19/2025 05:26 am
