Commatology: Collection of postmarks.
Composite sheet: A sheet of stamps which has different stamps.
Compound perforations: Difference gauge perforations on different sides of a single stamp.
Commatology: Specialized collecting of postmarks. This term was invented before World War II to describe postmark collecting. It is rarely used. Usually, collectors refer to postmark collecting or marcophily.
Marcophilately: study of postmarks; also known as Marcophily, Commatology
Mare: (Fr.) sea.
Mare Balticum: (Latin) Baltic Sea, exhibition name covering Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.
Mind you, we used to be called ‘commatologists’ because ‘commatology’ was regarded as the ‘specialised collecting of postmarks’.
is the specialised study and collection of postmarks, cancellations and postal markings applied by hand or machine on mail that passes through a postal system and applied by the postal operator through whose domain they pass. Commatology was a term ...
 See also: Postmark, Postal Marking, Used, Cancellation, Philately
  
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