Frame

Frame The border of the stamp's design. Inner Frame The border of the inner design of a stamp.

Frame your best stamps and hang them on the wall in a sunny location. A year from now, or sooner, they will be wrecked.

Frame. The border, or outside, portion of a design. Frame Inverted. A curious error (Spanish) where a part of the frame was inverted. Fugitive. An ink intended to prevent cleaning of stamp cancels, which runs when in contact with water or other fluid.

Frame -- The outer portion of the stamp design, usually a line or a group of panels.

Inverted frame - a term used to describe a misprint that leaves part of the image upside down or inverted. Occasionally, a single cliche is inverted in the plate, resulting in one color producing a tete beche in a multiple piece.

Break in the frame line at the upper left-hand corner; blob of color in the frame line under the "T" in POSTAGE 6 ...

Electric Eye Frame Bars - horizontal lines in the sheet margin used by the electric eye in the perforating process. This marking was first used in 1939.

S20, S30, S40: marginal markings on some rotary press plates made from a die with an experimental variation in the frame line depth. SA: Latvia overprint, Russian Occupation. S.A.: 1: Saudi Arabia. 2: see self-adhesive.

British colonial royal wedding frames from book, Surreal Stamps and Unreal Stickers. Ab: standard Berlin censorship office mark, WW II. Aba-el-Wakf: Egypt, see: Interpostal seals, 1879-84. Abaco and Cays: group of the Bahamas Islands.

PAIR (top #20435/20446), GD, color shift - red cross touches left side of frame AVG .35 nln 702 Plt No. PAIR (bot #20447/20437) F-VF .85 nln 702 Plt No. BLOCK (4), Bot #20495/20469, GD, margin torn AVG .30 nln 703 PNS (top #20480), NH VF .

It's technically the brown intaglio that is inverted, since it was printed last, but descriptions of inverts generally give preference to the frame or major design elements, so this is described as "flame inverted" by most people.

The number of frames allotted for the exhibit is limited therefore your entire collection cannot be exhibited. Choose the best items which ensure continuity and understanding of your subject.

delivery point barcode (DPBC)—A POSTNET barcode that consists of 62 bars with beginning and ending frame bars and 5 bars each for the nine digits of the ZIP+4 code, the last 2 digits of the primary street address number (or post office box, etc.

centring On imperforate issues, the frameline is just cut into by the edge of the stamp on one or two sides. Perforations touch or cut the design on other issues.

4 pence issue of Western Australia (1854) with inverted frame. LADY MCLEOD 1847 private issue stamp for mail carried by the ship Lady McLeod between Port of Spain, Trinidad and San Fernado, Trinidad.

Many different issued might all use an identical key plate which would normally include the frame and the main design.

InvertThe central design ('vignette') or portion of a stamp printed upside-down in relation to the frame, or vice versa.

With a frame now on the screen, right click the mouse. Tada we can now click Border. The choices are a line or border art. Pick border art. Don't be shy, use a border to suit your mood, for fun pick ice-cream cones or palm trees.

Some colors just oxidize and look totally different from what they are supposed to be. Yellows and oranges turn to shades of brown, for example. Stamps on display in a case or frame, ...

See also: Stamp, Used, Catalog, Cover, Printing