Embossing: The process of giving relief to paper by pressing it with a die. Embossed designs are often found on the printed stamps of postal stationery (usually envelopes and wrappers). Selected stamps of certain countries have been embossed.
Embossing - the process of impressing a design into paper with a die so that the design is raised up on the paper; similar to a rotary seal. The embossing process was used for most stamped envelopes of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Embossing: The process of giving relief to paper by pressing it with dies.
Entire: A piece of postal stationery that is intact.
Error: A mistake in the philatelic material.
Embossing - The process of giving relief to paper by pressing it with a die.
Encased Postage Stamp - A stamp inserted into a small, transparent, coin-size case originally used as legal coins during coin shortages.
Embossing. A process of raising all or part of a design in relief.
Enameled Paper. A blue safety paper used on the 4d. British stamps of 1855, or the highly glazed paper used on some 1/2d. stamps of Ceylon.
This embossing is transferred to the pulp fibres, compressing and reducing their thickness in that area.
Designs with embossing are also often found as the imprints (stamp designs) of postal stationery. The Imperial Eagle in the vignette of the design of the 1/4-groschen violet German stamp (1) shown in Figure 5 is embossed.
2: (Fr.) embossing.
Relief printing: print from a printing base which is supposed to appear in color on stamps raised above the non-printing areas, and only the color-producing areas meet the paper at the moment of impression.
Embossing -
[1] A form of printing in relief.
[2] The process of impressing a design in relief into the paper of an envelope.
End delivery - Coil in which postage stamps are arranged 'one above the other' and dispensed by a machine.
Eng.
"Grills" are a sort of embossing that was applied to US stamps as a security measure during the period from 1867-1872.
Stamps or stamped envelopes in which all or part of the design is raised above the surface of the paper by pressing the paper between two dies that have patterns in relief. Embossing may be combined with printing or left plain (blind embossing). In U.
GRILL: Rows of pyramid-shaped embossing, impressed into the back of certain stamps. Grills broke stamp fibers, letting cancellation ink sink in, making re-use impossible.
GUM: The adhesive used on stamps.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Printing, Cover, Catalog
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