Regummed unused stamps...value?

I'm never quite sure why one would do this, other than to pretend it was actually a mint stamp and increase its value.

Yup - agree. I mean what’s the point?

I’d price as NG clearly labeled regummed like you said  and let the buyers decide. And well done, bigcreekdad for writing accurate descriptions. 

I have to disagree with these two comments  Nick . 


bigcreekdad states it is an " Early Canada " regummed. 

So Why regum? Plain financial greed. 
There can be a huge catalogue value between MINT NEVER HINGED and even lightly HINGED MINT.  Unused with several hinges significantly devalues an early stamp so it may be better to soak and remove the hinges and describe the stamp as UNUSED ,NO GUM  it can't legitimately be called "mint".  The value  may be compared in some cases with a low value used, unless fine used is rare and better than the mint value . But neither can it be called "used" as it clearly is not, so some less scrupulous trader in the past has cleaned and regummed a hinged stamp. 

Regumming is done to persuade potential buyers to pay the MNH premium . Fraud pure and simple!  and if detected makes it a stamp to avoid , or get a low price deal as a spacefiller 

In my collection-building days for my mint Canada collection, I would intentionally buy the oldest (Large Queens and older) mint stamps as regummed copies and would then soak the gum off.  Regummed stamps are frowned upon so as soon as mention was made of it, their prices were almost always cheaper at auction.  The Unitrade catalogue specifically mentions the almost entire lack of the oldest mint stamps available with original gum (with only a couple of exceptions, by memory the 1/2 cent and the 15 cent Large Queens).  These oldest regummed stamps aren't catalogued with any value higher than MNG (Mint No Gum) stamps, and since regumming can put any number of mystery substances on the back of the stamp, I get rid of it.  What's the point of acid-free this and archival that if somebody's homemade gum recipe eventually eats paper?  On the oldest stamps it is assumed that full gum is a forgery in most cases so in those cases it's better to get rid of it, I think.

All of these (with the exception of the 1/2 cent and the two 15 cent values) were bought regummed and then soaked clean.



Ryan