Bicolored Stamps:
Bilingual:
Refers to stamps inscribed in two languages. Most Canadian stamps include both English and French text. South African stamps are sometimes in both English and Afrikaans.
Many bicolor stamps are black and some other color. They can be marvelously effective images, such as the 3-penny blue and black Papuan Dandy stamp (Papua New Guinea Scott 98) shown in Figure 6.
Classic and Bicolor Stamps of the Danish West Indies
Sarasota National
Stamp Exhibition
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A due colori: (It.) bicolored.
Aduna: (Sp.) revenue stamp for custom duties on imported goods; first issued in 1885s.
This was only the third time the US had issued bicolored stamps, and each of the prior instances had yielded inverts. W.T.
Duty Plate. The plate used in the production of bicolored stamps in which the value appears.
Embossing. A process of raising all or part of a design in relief.
Plate Sequence Number - A number engraved in the corner of the vignette and frame plates of the bicolored Pan-American issue of 1901 (Scott 294 and 295) to permit the same set of vignette and frame plates to be kept together on the press.
scenery and some occasional fauna and flora became popular since 1890's. It started in New Zealand, Tonga, and Tasmania. It spread thoroughly to Latin America countries. By 1930's British and French colonial empires indulged in bicolored ...
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