Bisect "on piece"
Bisects "on piece", like this one, are less desirable, but can still command steep prices - this one sold for $3,600 in 1995.
Bisect A stamp cut in half which has been used to pay the postage at half the face value of the original stamp or during shortages of stamps.
Bisect - a stamp cut into two parts (diagonally, vertically, or horizontally), each part paying postage of half the face value of the complete stamp.
Bisects ...
Bisect: A stamp cut or perforated into two parts, each half representing half the face value of the original stamp. Officially authorized bisects have often been used during temporary shortages of commonly used denominations.
Bisect - see Fractional Usages.
*Black Hardings - black stamps issued in 1923 to mourn the death of President Warren Harding; Scott 610-613.
Bisect. Half of a stamp, either vertically, diagonally or horizontally, to meet another rate where various values are short.
Blind Perforations. Hole punching which did not register, leaving the paper intact, or with slight impress markings.
Never soak a stamp bisected for use at half its face value. Doing so completely eliminates its relevance, even if the use was collector created. Anyone can cut a stamp in half and call it a bisect.
3PF: German bisect provisional made 1901, at New Orleans, La. by German Cruiser Vineta to meet need for printed matter rate by ship's crew.
3-Rings Nummerstempler: (Nor.) 3-concentric rings numerical oblit cancellations.
Bisect - Half a postage stamp postally used for half its original value.
Bishop, Henry - (b. d. ) Former British postmaster general and inventor of the Bishop Mark, the worlds first postage handstamp.
Another new find is the only bisect known on a pioneer cover. His personal research identified a censored May 15, ...
Provisional stamps are usually made by overprinting, surcharging and occasionally by bisecting pre-existing stamps.
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