Estate purveyors of chewed gum

Gum that has already been chewed. Graded, sealed, and sold.

We sell used chewing gum. Each wad is photographed on black velvet, graded on our five-point scale, and sealed in an archival sleeve with a certificate that records the original flavor, how long it was chewed, who chewed it, and the surface it was recovered from. Nothing is washed.

Four chewed gum wads on velvet risers in a glass display case, each with a lot number card

Currently in the case

Featured lots

Four wads from the current inventory. Every lot is one piece and sells once.

A grader in black gloves examining a wad with a loupe, sleeves and certificates on the desk

The Second Chew scale

Five grades, from Fresh to Fossil

A wad spat two minutes ago and a wad lifted from under a cinema seat after twenty-six years are the same material at opposite ends of one scale. We grade on flavor remaining, firmness, and the condition of the tooth pattern, and we record the surface the wad was recovered from, because the surface is what dates it.

Reserve wads are chewed in front of one of our graders, who registers the bite pattern before the wad goes into the sleeve. Standard wads come off desks, benches, and bedposts and are recorded by surface rather than by person.

Read the scale

Boxed and bespoke

Sets

For a first flight, a second person, or a wad chewed to your own specification.

Have a wad?

Get it appraised

Describe the wad, the chewer, and the surface it is on, and our tool will give you a preliminary grade and an estimate you can download and send to whoever needs convincing. We buy about one in forty of the wads offered to us. Leave it where it is until we have seen it.

Appraise a wad
Macro photograph of tooth impressions in a red wad, measured with brass calipers

In good homes

From our customers

Wads on mantels, in ring boxes, and back under the desks they came from. See the customer gallery.

A pale green chewed wad in an open ring box held over a restaurant table

Proposed with a Set spearmint in a ring box. She said yes to the box.

An old grey-pink wad under a glass dome on a mantel beside a photograph of a cinema

Row F, Seat 11 on the mantel, next to the photograph of the cinema it came from.

A hand holding a loupe over a red wad next to its certificate

Checking the bite registry on The Hygienist against the certificate. It matches.