Batonne: A wove or laid paper with faint lines used as guide for writing.
Bilingual: Stamps which have inscriptions in two languages.
Blind perforation: stamps that are that are lightly perforated.
Batonne: A wove or laid paper with watermarklike lines deliberately added in the papermaking process and intended as a guide for handwriting.
Batonne Paper. A "ruled" paper, so-called because the watermark consists of parallel straight lines.
Bayern (Bayr). The name of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Benzene. A liquid used for watermark detecting. It is inflammable.
Batonne paper is a type of paper in which the lines are spaced far apart. It may be either wove or laid, and if laid, the laid lines can be seen between the widely spaced lines. Quadrille paper has lines that form small squares.
Papir, Batonne: (Dan., Nor.) batonne paper.
Papir, Bily: (Czech.) white paper.
Papir, Blånet: (Dan.) blued paper.
Papir, Cigaret: (Dan.) cigarette paper.
Papir, Fluoriserende: (Dan.) fluorescent paper.
Papirfold: (Dan.
Watermark -- A deliberate thinning of paper during its manufacture, to produce a semitranslucent pattern. Watermarks appear frequently in paper used in stamp printing. See also Batonne.
One of the two basic types of paper used in stamp printing. Laid paper is distinguished from wove paper by the presence of thin, parallel lines visible when the paper is held to light. The lines are usually a few millimeters apart. See also Batonne.
 See also: Printing, Used, Stamp, Catalog, Trans
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