Gutter

Gutter -
(1) a gap found between two adjacent stamps in a coil roll. Gutter strips are usually collected in strips of four stamps with the gutter in the middle.

GUTTER PAIR: Pair of stamps with wide gutter between. The gutter separates the sheets into panes.
HINGE: Gummed strip for mounting a stamp in an album.

Gutter strip:
Five stamps on either side of the "blank" strip separating the two panes of a stamp sheet. It may contain a design, text or "traffic lights".
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Gutter Space left between stamps to allow them to be separated or perforated.
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Guttersnipe - a stamp or stamps to which is attached the full adjacent gutter, including perforations, and sometimes including portions of the stamp(s) on the other side of the gutter.

Gutter snipe -- Not a person of low moral or economic station, but a miscut resulting in a stamp from one pane that has attached the full gutter and part of a stamp from another pane.

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.

Gutter Strip: A strip of all the stamps or se-tenant sets attached to either side of the gutter on a sheet.
Hinge: Small strips of paper gummed on one side and used by some collectors to mount their stamps.

Gutter Snipe: One or more stamps to which is attached the full gutter from between panes, plus any amount of an adjoining stamp or stamps. This term is typically used in reference to U.S. stamps.

Gutter: The selvage, either unprinted or with plate numbers, advertising or accounting or control numbers, between the panes of a sheet of stamps.

Gutter snipe - Miscut of the pane leaving the entire gutter and occasionally a portion of the adjoining stamp.
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Hand Made Cover - Folding a sheet of paper to create an envelope.

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Heart (Herzstück) and tête-bêche (Kehrdruck)
The empty fields connecting the single counter sheets are called gutters. Normally they are separated in the middle after printing in order to obtain four counter sheets.

Gutter - the space between one unit and the next, whether a stamp, pane, or sheet. The term is generally applied to the wide space between panes.

Gutter Pair (or Block). Stamps separated by a gutter of varying width, not to be confused with the normal spacing between stamps (U.S. Farley issue).
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"Gutter Snipes" (production error)
"Gutter snipes" result not when the perforating process goes awry, but when the finished sheets are mis-cut, ...

The gutter is the blank space, usually of stamp format, between the panes of a sheet of stamps. A gutter pair consists of two stamps separated by a stamp-sized piece of the gutter.
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Pair of full stamps with interpane gutter between: stamps printed in large formats and then incorrectly cut into panes; considered an error.
Paire: (Fr.) two of a kind; stamps that have not been separated, two attached stamps..

(ii) Portion of a sheet of postage stamps forming a simple fraction of the whole, especially in the case of a sheet printed in the form of a number of panes separarted by very wide gutter margins.

- gutter - lack of separation of press stamp sheets from panes
- perforations other than normal gauge - -too big or too small perfs
- gum error - the stamp is gummed on the wrong side
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Sheets of stamps may or may not have a gutter strip. These gutter strips may be illustrated or contain 'traffic lights' (circles of colour).

#3854, 37¢ Lewis & Clark, 2 GUTTER PAIRS from press sheet
1 horizontal, 1 vertical (4 stamps)
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See also: Stamp, Sheet, Used, Printing, Perforation