Grade and condition are crucial to collecting
By Rick Miller
For collectors who spend significant amounts of money on individual stamps and who hope to eventually sell those stamps for as much as they paid for them or more, ...
Grade - A judgment of a stamp's level or range of imperfections.
Gravure - See "Photogravure."
Grill - A pattern of parallel lines (or dots at the points where lines would cross) forming a grid.
Grade
The numerical or adjectival condition of a coin.
Grader ...
The lowest grade of stamp mixture, containing unsorted but primarily common, stamps on paper, as purchased from missions or other institutions. See also Bank Mixture.
Missionaries: ...
A rather poor grade of granite paper used for French war-time stamp issues of 1917-20.
Constant ...
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Good: a standard of grade.
Goodall proofs: proofs ordered printed by A. G. Goodall, president of the American Bank Note Co. in 1847 and 1879 of official and newspaper stamps.
Express Post with signature & insurance You are able to upgrade your Express Post item to include a signature at the time of delivery and provide you with insurance cover up to E350.
Grade - The ranking of a stamp based on centering for mint stamps; centering and cancellation for used stamps.
The version for warrant officers and company-grade officers (second lieutenants, first lieutenants, & captains) has a cap band with the branch-of-service color between two golden stripes, and a gold-colored chinstrap.
A collector since the 5th grade, Martin is a 30-year APS member whose first real contact with organized philately was as a student at the 3rd annual APS Summer Seminar in 1982.
Stamps are often graded according to centering as follows: VERY FINE (VF), FINE-VERY FINE (F-VF or F+), FINE (F), and AVERAGE (AVG).
Mission mixture: The lowest grade of stamp mixture, containing unsorted but primarily common stamps on paper, as purchased from missions or other institutions. See also Bank mixture.
Mission mixture: A low grade mixture of stamps.
Mixture: A group of stamps usually with duplicates.
Multiple: An unit of stamps which is not separated.
Some people call this grade AVERAGE.
F = FINE. This means noticeably off center on two sides, but the perfs touch the design only slightly or not at all.
VF = VERY FINE. This means the stamp is well centered, but not perfectly so.
This is done by further "bruising" which may be greater or less, but makes for grades of paper in direct relationship to the amount of breaking down. The "half-stuff" when ready goes into a "pond" that feeds the pulp onto a screen.
Margin: 1) the selvage surrounding the stamps in a sheet, often carrying inscriptions of various kinds; or 2) the unprinted area between stamps in a sheet or what is left after stamps are separated. The collectible grades of stamps are determined by ...
Fine plus (F+)
The design is noticeably off-center on one or two sides, overall appearance of this grade is acceptable to most collectors.
Now, we aren't going to tell you how educational this can be, cause this isn't school, right? This is mainly for fun!! But, if you happen to learn some things about geography and history as you go along, and your grades improve, ...
 See also: Used, Stamp, Catalog, Condition, Perforation
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