On 3/16/2012 2:51 PM, Pedro wrote:
Hello friends,
Has anybody here heard about a stamp trader called Mauro Spada from
Faenza, Italy? He has sent me some stamps pre-1960 because of an
exchange. None of them is postmarked, but some do not have gum. The ones
that have gum have their gum intact, like new, I think they're regummed.
i find them too new to their supposed age. I would like to know about
your opinions.

Ungummed probably means that the stamp was glued down in an album (by a
naive collector, extreme humidity, water) and soaked off. Or that it was
mounted with hinges that do not harmlessly peel off. Intact gum over a
century old is not unusual. Low value stamps would not be worth regumming.

You can see one of them he

http://cjoint.com/?0CqtYlurW4T

Without checking, I suspect this would be a low value stamp even if it
were in very fine condition, which it is not. (It is badly off-center
and the perforation tabs on the left are 'nibbled' (defective).)