stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 17, 2019 16:54:34 GMT
Happy rainy morning from northern California
I have a question about how to describe (accurately I hope) the condition of stamps
case in point- in amongst the boxes of stamps was one box where new, cancelled and stamps with hinges on them were placed into the same envelopes and somewhere over the years it got damp enough to turn the contents to "lumps-o-stamps". After several attempts to carefully pry apart (too much tearing), steaming (took too long) I resorted to just soaking, placing on a blotter and pressing until dry
Many of the stamps were new/unused and now, though still unused/cancelled are un-gummed, while some I would assume were used stamps that escaped the cancellation
Would I refer to uncancelled stamps as Mint No Gum? it also appears that any trace of being hinged was also soaked away
as I start to offer those stamps I do not collect, I don't want to mislead anyone
Thanks in advance
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tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
Posts: 6,385 
What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 17, 2019 20:34:06 GMT
In my view the term "mint" implies a stamp in the same condition as when it left the post office so I would refer to the stamp cited above as being "unused, no gum." We have a terminology thread that might provide further insight. |
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renden
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Posts: 9,162
What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Jan 17, 2019 20:57:08 GMT
Scott-Unitrade does describe well this No Gum thing etc. Note that terminology is like a good dictionary but this one is for stamps. Thanks tomiseksj for bringing a good response to this !! René |
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