How to control the clutter in your collection
By Janet Klug
This summer I remodeled my stamp room.
CONTROLLED MAIL: A system in which mail is sent bearing specific stamps, with the intention of the stamps being returned to the sender.
CONVERTIBLE BOOKLET: A small pane of self-adhesive stamps manufactured so it can be folded into a booklet.
Control Letters and Numbers Inscriptions found on the margins of sheets of stamps.
Cover An envelope that has been sent through the postal system.
Control Number - see Counting Number.
Control Perfin - a perforation composed of a square pattern of up to nine holes arranged in three rows of three, made by an affixing machine through the face of a Schermack or Mailometer coil. See Perfin.
Controlled Mail: A system in which the mailer selects philatelically desirable issues for outgoing mail, arranges for light cancellation and secures the stamps' return by the addressee.
Control number - numbers printed on backs of stamp that denote the year of printing. Control letters serve as indices for accounting records.
Cordials and wines stamp - stamp indicating collection of tax on such products ...
Control Numbers. Numbers stamped in the sheet margins, or on the backs of stamps, for inventory purposes.
Corner Blocks. A unit of four or more stamps from the corner of a sheet.
Dated Controls:
A term applied to precancels that have an extra marking in the form of a date and user's initials printed or handstamped upon them.
French-controlled Morocco received stamps forged by the British authorities that had overprints of "Deutsche Reichspost in Marokko" to create confusion and suggest an imminent German occupation. Few examples are known.
Mailpiece Quality Control Program (MQC)—The Mailpiece Quality Control Program is designed for those who wish to enhance their knowledge of the requirements associated with mailpiece design.
Saar: region between France and Germany, southeast of Luxembourg; currency: 100 pfennig = 1 mark, 100 centimes = 1 franc (1921) 1920-35 administered by France under League of Nations control, 1920, Jan.30: No.
You use saliva over water because you can control the amount of saliva and not the amount of water. Eventually, you will see the hinge start to buckle in some places. Carefully using tongs start pulling up the hinge from the stamp.
The official PSS type designations for printed dated controls are shown below the boxes.
Error stamps inspection & quality control
Postage stamp errors are uncommon or even rare. There are several layers of quality control and inspection done by postal administrations.
If you don't have any way to control the air in your stamp room, consider getting a dehumidifier: These will run about $200 for an average priced one. But your electric bill will go up significantly if you run it for a long period of time.
Overprints
The area of Venezia Giulia controlled by Yugoslavia was given Yugoslav stamps overprinted VUJA-STT.
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These postage stamps of Uruguay were overprinted with new values and text
to convert them for usage as Parcel Post stamps.
The last Canadian stamps to have a control number left on an issued post office pane was the 5c Royal Visit commemorative issued October 10, 1957.
Order number ...
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Gutter. The selvage, with or without plate numbers or controls numbers/letters between the panes of a sheet of stamps.
Handstamp. Some form of cancellation or postal marking.
Rick Banks, ext. 216
Controller
Ilene Barner, ext. 233
APS Mailroom Manager ...
Given the different depth of these incisions, the required amount of colour for light and dark areas can be controlled. A “squeegee' made of thin resilient steel is used to remove the excess colour from the non-printing areas.
Let's look at philatelic albums as a sample group to see what we can do to control inherent vice.
Philatelic Material and Inherent Vice ...
Gutter: The selvage, either unprinted or with plate numbers, advertising or accounting or control numbers, between the panes of a sheet of stamps.
Gutter: The selvage separating panes on a sheet of stamps. The gutter is usually discarded during processing. The gutter may be unprinted, or bear plate numbers, accounting or control numbers, advertising or other words or markings.
Such albums are used by advanced collectors and by all others who do not wish to be controlled by printed spaces for stamps. They are available in all qualities and sizes from a few dollars to twenty-five dollars or even more for a single volume.
Control - Letters and/or figures printed in a postage stamp sheet margin to indicate time of accounting, distribution or other manufacturing data.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Local, Sheet
  
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