True, a rubber stamp with your original (and not have it, but because it has not undergone immersio

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Trying to certain current problems, we realize that some are already drawn from many years ago. If he waited for us looking back perhaps we could draw some lessons. This article was written today discussed once a century has passed virtually: "It is customary to weigh the Belle of a new seal when rubber retains its original and have seen that detract from its value if not preserved. Here, for this purpose, it is necessary to clarify some doubts:
eniente take it away like Postage Stamps 1866 Spain, where the fineness of the paper, the rubber cracks, and barely touched, they split, it seems these rubber stamps as crystallized?. 3rd Tested the rubber ink pad per
Pass the claim of prima facie claim that if a seal is good or bad. We saw lots of seals rubber products that no one makes them stick with white and chilly ink pad paste, others with past rubber, pestilential stench and yellowish.
When 97 years have already passed since the publication of this article, we can easily answer any of the questions asked and extract occasional teaching, as they give us the story when we turn to it.
The first three questions history has given us a clear response: Stamps has taken away the rubber (in a high percentage to Spanish classical label, and almost universal to Isabel II period toothless form). It is true that we see many rubber stamps, but very rarely is the original own. Not so, however, with emissions of Alfonso XII onwards.
True, a rubber stamp with your original (and not have it, but because it has not undergone immersion in water or any liquid) typically offer higher quality appearance, and the color is more vivid and fresher texture. But it is also true that there have been more prudent and successful give a degree to those aspects of quality for the conservation of the seal since it is well established that the rubber of the first issues of Spain had such strength ink pad that moisture changes the cuarteaban so that came to crack and even to tear the paper. ink pad Likewise some rubbers acidity affects color conservation, since it penetrates the paper (which is also damaging) and altered. On the other hand it is also true that the organic composition of these bands favors the cultivation of fungi and bacteria that constitute what in philately come to call "stains" or "spots of time" over the years also eventually damage irreparably paper fibers.
Here's how today we have come to the Spanish classic seal does not ask you if you have original or no gum, we simply already have good margins, good centering if toothed, good color and lack of repairs or defects to the we can consider LUXURY, ie, of the highest quality.
There remains one last question asked by Angel Sáenz de Heredia: Is someone able to tell if a stamp has or has not canceled? . For the Spanish classic question is irrelevant ink pad today, but not for the seal of the twentieth century and in this sense can answer that there is no problem for a good expert, but not in general.
To this period it has become so big the difference in value between the new stamps never hinged without signal NH and those with any stain or some other paper or hinged adhered to the back, the fraudsters have run to change the poor rubber other pristine, and if it was the top grosser work, dedication to the profession (if we can qualify as a profession reengomador activity, one facing fraud activity sometimes not directly, but through other ) has improved the quality of the fakes to make them almost indistinguishable without adequate means and knowledge that are only available to the expert.
But the issue of the gums in Spain in the twentieth century emissions should try it more extensively and thus dedicate this section to it in the magazine next June. (See Diving 006.'s Cynical philatelic)
Author: ink pad José María Sempere (Barcelona 1947) Degree in Political Science, Economics and Business ink pad (Barcelona 1973). Member of the International Association of Philatelic Experts (IMCI) in