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The best stamp hinges are designed to be "peelable", meaning that the stamp may be removed from the page, and the hinge from the stamp, without damage to either. Not all makes of hinge have this property, and the backs of many stamps have "hinge remnants", where the hinge has torn away rather than releasing the stamp.
Hinge remaining (HR) is a mint stamp which has part of a stamp hinge on the back. Original gum (OG): A stamp with its original gum, yet deteriorated by age. No Gum (NG): Stamp's gum has been washed off. Rarely, stamps are issued with no gum. Regummed (RG): Fresh gum has been applied to the stamp. Poor regumming can be detected by examining the ...
I have collected stamps since I was 15, in 1940. Dennison stamp hinges were easily obtained, but as years passed they seemed to disappear from the market. They were the best thing that ever happened as an aid to stamp collecting, as far as I'm concerned. Any hinges that I can find now are made in Germany, and even though they claim to be ...
In philately, a regummed stamp is any stamp without gum, or without full gum, that has had new gum applied to the back to increase its value.. Unused stamps with full original gum (OG) on the back are worth more than stamps without gum or complete gum, for instance those that have been mounted using a stamp hinge.
Mint: stamps with full, undamaged original gum, as sold by the post office. This condition (also called mint, never hinged) is valued highest. Unused: stamps whose original gum has been damaged, e.g. through use of stamp hinges, or other influences. Unused without gum: stamps which have lost their original gum.
Hinge has found that daters prefer voice prompts as a way to get to know a person better before meeting up in real life. To add a voice prompt, go to your profile and find it underneath the photo ...
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One solution was a postage stamp affixing machine, introduced in the 1880s. [2] [3] The earliest record of a franking machine was by Frenchman Carle Bushe who in 1884 obtained a British Patent for a device that would print a stamp on an envelope and record postage via a counting device.