Self-adhesive stamp
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Self-adhesives belong in your mint collection
By Michael Baadke
In recent years the use of self-adhesive postage stamps has increased significantly.
Adhesive
Any stamp-like item that is affixed to a letter or document to represent payment of postage or duties. Adhesives can range from Penny Black to city or local revenue stamps and all categories in between.
Adhesive: A word generally referring to a stamp. An adhesive is a label affixed to an article to prepay postal fees, in contrast to a design printed directly on an article, as with postal stationery.
Adhesive Usually refers to a stamp with gum on the back to enable it to be pasted on a letter, etc..
Adhesive. In actuality, what a stamp is: a piece of paper which, by way of its gummed or pressure-sensitive back, pays for postage when applied to a piece of mail. With revenue stamps, the adhesive pays some kind of tax.
ADHESIVE: A postage stamp intended for affixing on letters and other mail.
AEROPHILATELY: The collecting, preservation, and study of airmail stamps. Cat. Designation: "C"
AIRMAILS: Stamps issued specifically for use on airmail letters.
Adhesive
A stamp affixed to envelopes by means of gum on the reverse. Some stamps are printed directly onto postcards, envelopes or wrappers. See Postal Stationery.
Aerogrammes ...
Adhesive
Admiralty Official
Stamps overprinted with these words were used by H M Admiralty dockyards and other installations on official mail.
Adhesive - Usually refers to the sticky substance that is used to fix a stamp to an envelope. It may be either pressure-sensitive or activated by water.
SELF-ADHESIVE STAMPS:
Some self-adhesive stamps have a special, water-soluble backing, and they can be soaked off envelopes.
Self-adhesive: Gum on stamps that fixes just with the application of pressure.
Selvage: The paper present on the margins of stamp sheets.
Series: A group of stamps with a similar design or themes ...
Self-Adhesive: Stamp gum that adheres to envelope paper by the application of pressure alone. Most self-adhesive stamps are sold on a coated paper release liner. See also Liner, Linerless, Water-activated.
Adhesive: 1) The gum on the back of a stamp or label. Some stamps have been issued with no adhesive.
Adhesive - a substance applied to the back of most stamps to facilitate attaching them to the mailing surface. Adhensives are both water-activated and pressure-sensitive (self-adhesive).
Adhesive. A term applied to ordinary postage stamps intended for sticking on letters and parcels, as compared with envelope stamps and postcards, where the design is impressed or imprinted onto the envelope or card.
Gum - Adhesive that is used to attach a stamp to an envelope.
Hinges - Small pieces of gummed paper that are used to affix stamps to an album page. Hinges allow for stamps to be removed from an album page without damaging the stamp.
A self-adhesive booklet and cover, clearly showing a cover
Prestige booklets contain pages of information interleaved with booklet panes. Prestige booklets often contain stamps in a different format to the original issue.
RW70A Self-adhesive pane of 1
3802
37¢ Arctic Tundra, pane of 10
5th issue in the Nature of America series.
ETIQUETTE - An adhesive which is not a postage stamp.
FANCY CANCEL - A cancellation which is or includes a design.
*Gum - the adhesive substance applied to the back of stamps that enables them to be affixed to an envelope. See also Water-activated Gum and Self-Adhesive Stamp ...
Self-adhesive - A postage stamp with a permanently sticky back, protected before use by a removable piece of paper.
Stamp: A postal adhesive. Initially used as a verb, meaning to imprint or impress, that is, to stamp a design.
The first self-adhesive stamps were issued by Sierra Leone on 10 February 1964.
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5: pre-adhesive postmark; Paris (France), Pennsylvania (USA), Philadelphia, (Penn.) Poland, Prague (Bohemia), 6: (With no country name, with value and Queen's cameo) Great Britain.
Cachet - Special handstamp (often a 'rubber stamp'), manuscript note, adhesive label or printed design borne by a postal item and confirming unusually a particular route or an interesting usage; e.g. a first flight on a particular route.
This was the first "self-adhesive coil" with setenant designs, in 1993.
Stamp hinges are basically glassine paper with a starch adhesive. The starch adhesive (as well as the starch pastes used with 'rice' paper) will leave a faint yellow discoloration in time and become slightly acidic. They last about 20-30 years.
Using adhesive tapes to place items on a page will damage them and make removal difficult. A few preservation supply companies offer an acrylic double stick tape for this purpose. This is another case of buyer beware! ...
A precancel stamp, or precancel, is an adhesive postage stamp (or revenue stamp) that has been canceled, under proper authority, with a device designed solely for this purpose, before being affixed to mail (or taxable) matter.
On May 6, 1840 the first adhesive stamp "Penny Black" was officially issued. If you notice you will see that the stamp does not have the name of the country. None of the British Stamps have the name of the country on them.
Meter Tape - A piece of adhesive paper that is fed through a postage meter and imprinted with postage. The meter tape is then applied to a mailpiece (usually a large envelope or parcel that is too big to fit through the postage meter).
Registration Labels: Adhesive labels indicating the registry number and, usually, city of origin for registered articles sent through the mail. In Australia, there were often ‘purpose printed’ registration labels.
permit imprint—Printed indicia, instead of an adhesive postage stamp or meter stamp, that shows postage prepayment by an authorized mailer. See 604.5.0 ...
Helpful Hints: Never use tape or "magnetic" photo albums to mount your stamps. Over time the chemicals in the adhesives will discolor and damage your stamps.
Language of Collecting
Airmail Stamp ...
featuring Point Pelée National Park (1983), La Maurice National Park (1986), Bonsecours Market (1990) and the Victoria Public Library (1996). Used mainly on overseas parcels, the Grizzly provides an attractive alternative to postal meter adhesives.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Sheet, Catalog
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