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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 .
A used postage stamp with a pen cancel is usually worth much less than a stamp cancelled using a handstamp or machine. [5] In particular, the additional information from the handstamp is lost and the pen cancel may indicate fiscal (revenue) rather than postal use. Pen cancelling is, however, a common method of cancelling stamps used fiscally.
(The actual numbers printed were small, and so most of the reissues are now rarer and more expensive than the originals they resemble.) In 1962, to prevent people profiting from the issue of an invert stamp error, the United States Post Office Department intentionally reprinted 40,270,000 copies the yellow Dag Hammarskjöld invert stamp. [2]
Stamps sell at a considerable premium if they are in this condition. Lightly hinged (LH) is a mint stamp which was hinged but only slightly disturbed. Heavily hinged (HH) is a mint stamp which was hinged and damaged in the process. Hinge remaining (HR) is a mint stamp which has part of a stamp hinge on the back.
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper attached to mail that indicates that the postage (the cost of sending the mail) has been paid. Because stamps are sent on most mail, the stamp on a received item can be removed and placed on a different piece of mail to be sent, thus reusing the stamp without paying the proper postage.
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Where hand stamps were not available, stamps often were cancelled by marking over the stamp with pen, such as writing an "x". Pen cancellations were used in the United States into the 1880s, [ 6 ] and in a sense continue to this day, when a postal clerk notices a stamp has escaped cancellation and marks it with a ball point pen or marker .