An uncanceled stamp that has not been used but has a hinge mark or some other characteristic or defect that keeps it from being considered a mint stamp. Uncanceled stamps without gum may have been used and missed being canceled, or they may have lost their gum by accident.
A stamp that has not been cancelled but not necessarily a mint stamp.
Not canceled or otherwise defaced, but not in mint condition or with original gum.
The condition of a stamp that has no cancellation or other sign of use.
term that is normally applied to ' mint' specimens, but is equally applicable to one without gum, or to one that has been through the post and missed cancellation.