Duplicate: An additional copy of a stamp that one already has in a collection. Beginners often consider stamps to be duplicates that really are not, because they overlook perforation, watermark or color varieties.
Duplicate: Extra copies of stamps which the collector has.
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Embossing: The process of giving relief to paper by pressing it with dies.
Duplicate
An extra copy of a stamp, duplicates may be sold or traded. Before disposing of a duplicate, however, it is always a good idea to check the stamps for varieties or other characteristics that may set it apart.
Duplicate stamps are those a collector already has and are not required, therefore, to fill a gap in a collection. Duplicate stamps can be sold or traded, so they are an important medium of exchange among collectors.
Duplicate stamps were for use in office or messengers' receipt books.
Collect stamps were the equivalent of postage due stamps, showing that the telegraph fee had not been paid or paid in full by the sender.
A duplicate coin created by the electrolytic method, where metal is deposited into a mold made from the original. The obverse and reverse metal shells are then filled with metal and fused together.
starting in1999; with the franking indicia containing information that is encrypted to make each imprint a unique postage frank that cannot be duplicated.
Ibiza: local post, Spanish Civil War, Nationalist, 1937.
Impression - (i) The image of a postage stamp transferred by pressure to a duplicate die or transfer roller. (ii) The similar image transferred by pressure to the surface of the plate. (iii) The printed image impressed on to the paper.
Trading off your duplicate stamps can be a lot of fun. Even if you don't know many collectors where you live, stamps are so lightweight that they can easily be trades by mail.
If 50 subjects were set up and duplicated to make plates to print 100 stamps; as is the case with Bureau Prints, a single error would occur twice on the sheet.
Trading, once you have a few duplicates or decide to change your direction, is a good method and it puts you in contact with other collectors. Also consider charity.
I purchased a number of year sets (oftentimes, costing $1.00 or less) and as a result, I have many duplicates (most of which are used). My goal is to have more than 2000 stamps by the end of 1997 (not including 1997 stamps).
Exchange Department (today's Sales Division) - The object of the Exchange Department of the Association is to facilitate the exchange of duplicate stamps, entire envelopes and postal cards among the members.
Try sorting common definitive duplicates from a variety of countries by color. Look them up in any catalog you have, as it doesn't matter which one you use.
Complementing the albums are the stock books, also available in wide price ranges, for the storing of unmounted material and duplicates, and what are known as "approval cards" used by many collectors for the same purposes.
They are not trying to duplicate the catalogs, rather to supplement them with useful information for collectors. In my ideal world, catalogs would include all this data, and even more.
But I will sell my duplicates. I describe them as "Plate Position" and the position # / total positions. The position numbers are assigned from left to right, top to bottom. An example description would be PP1/4.
Stock Book -- A book containing rows of pockets to hold unmounted or duplicate stamps.
Sure, you will make mistakes, and sometimes you might even get a great deal for yourself, but remember this is a hobby and if you want to make and keep friends, be up front about your duplicates and what you want to trade for.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Find
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