ALPHABETILATELY - The Alphabet
Table of Contents - Home page for the Alphabetilately pages
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Alphabet soup: Scott catalog prefixes and suffixes
By Rick Miller
"You can't tell the players without a program!" the stadium hawkers used to shout as they strode up and down the stairs between the rows of seats.
Alphabetical indices
Complete alphabetical index-sorted by the first two letters of the title, e.g., "Aa Ab Ac Ad..."
Categorical indices ...
The alphabet characters used in creating legends, mottos, and other inscriptions on a coin.
Lib
Term for Liberty Head. (i.e. a $10 Lib, a $20 Lib).
APS Staff Alphabetical Listing
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Don't know who to contact? A Listing by Subject is also available.
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Alphabet - A particularly distinctive set of letters used to print a postage stamp or overprint and which helps a philatelist identify the item precisely.
symbols of the Cryllic alphabet and initials of Western Ukrainian National Republic, became part of Poland. Ukrainian Arctic Post: bogus Russian issue.
Ukrainian easter eggs: label design issued by the scouting organization.
Identifying Foreign Stamps. This can be difficult especially when an alphabet is used that you are unfamiliar with. Try SCV Stamp Identifier or go to "... identify your Weird Stamps." or look in the back of Scott Stamp Catalogs.
Corner Letters. In early British stamps letters in alphabetical sequence were used in the lower corners.
Correos. Spanish word signifying postage.
Cote. French equivalent of coast.
I sorted out the pages alphabetically and then purchased #4 sized Scott Specialty Binders that are for loose leaf pages, each holding 400 pages. I decided to only install pages that I had stamps for.
*Nondenominated Stamp - a stamp that does not have a value printed on its face, but often has an assigned value. Such stamps often have a letter of the alphabet as part of their design that represents an assigned value.
The first few issues of stamps were in sheets that had rows and columns shown by letters of the alphabet. This example shows row "A" and column "A", so we know it was the stamp in the top left corner of the sheet.
Most collectors stamps have their country printed right on the stamp, but some have the country name printed in their native alphabet which may not look like anything familiar, but it might take a little while for you to identify these stamps, ...
Volume 1 includes U.S. and territories, Canada, Great Britain and the Commonwealth as well as the United Nations. Volumes 2 through 5 include the remaining countries of the world listed alphabetically.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Philatelic
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