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  • August 15, 2010 23:16
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As a relatively new collector, I wonder what the difference is between mint and mint. A short internet search shows me that MNH is also unused.

From today I started to visualize my complete collection via this site. Kudos for the completeness of the database so far!

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August 16, 2010 00:14

Each item has a link “Explanation Conditions” under the heading Catawiki catalog value. There you will find the answer.

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  • August 28, 2010 16:36
August 28, 2010 16:36

Sorry, but I'm also new here and I don't quite understand the difference, even from the description.

The difference is whether or not there is a sticker (remnant). What is that?
Does that mean that a shiny layer (gum) can still be seen on the back?

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  • August 31, 2010 13:59
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August 31, 2010 13:59

Mint is as sold by the post, so in principle with the full and original gum layer. Is unused with gum, but there is a sticker on it or has a sticker on it. Especially with old stamps, high demands are placed on the gum with MNH. (absolutely no gum damage or brown tip). The price difference is large and you should always be careful with gummed seals (often too beautiful white gum, very curly, shiny, hard teeth or glue membranes between the teeth). Modern stamps after 1960 are always collected MNH, in the time that these stamps appeared, the preprint albums with clamp strips came onto the market.

Incidentally, these are terms that are not only used on Catawiki, but in all stamp catalogs… ..

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  • November 21, 2010 20:41
November 21, 2010 20:41

However, there are also stamps from countries that have not served as postage

but provided with a stamp.

You could then call this - unused / canceled.

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  • November 23, 2010 20:53
November 23, 2010 20:53

hello, my name is roel ,, I actually became a member today ,, I have a book full of stamps from Saarland here, and I don't know much about it, I do have almost all series, but I don't really know the difference about values, I have an example of the series from Saarland nr 11 1949 with adhesive and without stamp, what are these worth then, gr

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November 23, 2010 21:03

http: // www. catawiki.nl/catalogue/Stamps-Country- areas-Saarland/a/41079f1b08732ebbfec85388b0bc9989bea2f7d6/g/na/s/1/0/SO_47/a

Just search for Saarland. You can see the values there (as long as they have values given to them), and you can then immediately transport them to your collection :)

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  • November 23, 2010 21:08
November 23, 2010 21:08

hello fazerco, thank you for your quick response, I had already seen that so far yes, but I don't see anything about the sticker, and I can also put my own photos on the site, or can I just indicate that I also have those stamps , gr

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November 23, 2010 21:16

If you add them to your collection it will be done MNH as standard. You just have to tick on which page you have, and then hit bulk add. That button is on the left of the screen.

When you have done that you can click on a stamp in your collection and add your own image. If there is a stamp with no image in the catalog, you can add it yourself in the catalog.

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  • March 11, 2011 11:34
March 11, 2011 11:34

Good morning everyone,

Mint condition is not always the quality as the stamps are / were sold by the post. Some stamps were only provided with gum at the counter (such as some -old- German States) and think, for example, of the old stamps of Suriname that were only provided with gum in Suriname.

Stamps that were only sold with a stamp at the counter were, for example, the Cour de Justice stamps of the Netherlands (you also had to pay tax on this at the counter !!!). To my knowledge, those canceled stamps no longer have any (catalog) value if they are MNH instead of unused with adhesive.

Moreover, in the reasoning that MNH is the state as it was bought at the counter, it therefore means that crackle eraser is no longer MNH because cracks have appeared in the eraser (and often in the seal).

Regards, Michael

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I can largely confirm these caveats. Changes that have occurred over time due to natural processes, of course, do not affect the posrtfris status. They often just confirm that it is an original gum.

The term 'MNH' is actually only used in trade for unstamped copies. For stamps with gum coating and stamping terms such as 'sheet shredding, mass stamping, and request stamping' are used. At the Cour de Justice, it is special that these were partly in principle also not for sale without stamps. In the trade a premium is required for these stamps without sticker.

There are of course other special shapes such as the pre-stamped stamps of, for example, France and Monaco. These stamps are also sold for full nominal by the postal service. The stamp is printed along with the seal. Then a strange mixture arises between 'MNH' and 'stamped' or 'deprecated' and here the difference between original gum and 'sticky' does play a role. (And the only difference between used and unused is the lack of gum l ).

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