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Impression
A multiple of stamps, usually four or more, with a printed selvage attached. This printed information may include printers' initials, plate information, slogans, illustrations, or other forms of data.
Early Impression - a stamp produced in the first phase of a plate's life, before the plate shows any indication of wear.
Early Impression - A stamp printed during the beginning run of a press that usually has a very sharp image.
EFO - Errors, Freaks and Oddities.
Elusives - Generic reference to collectible items that are difficult to locate.
Albino Impression (Imprint) - A colorless embossed impression of an uninked portion of a die which appears on a print; typically, a banknote company's inscription or a die number.
Impression:
Imprimatur:
Latin for "let it be printed." The first sheets of stamps from an approved plate, normally checked and retained in a file, prior to a final directive to begin stamp production from a plate.
An impression made during the production of stamps. For use only by printers and postal administrations, these are not available to collectors.
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Double impression - two impressions of the same stamp resulting from the sheet being run through the press twice ...
Proofs: Trial impressions from a die or printing plate before actual stamp production. Proofs are made to examine a die or plate for defects and to compare the results of different inks.
Early impression: a stamp that has been printed from a plate which has just begun to run on the press; distinguished from later printings taken from the same plate that will not be as sharp as the "early impressions." ...
Handstamped Impressions
With all types of handstamps, the sharpness and blackness of the impression vanes with the kind and amount of ink of the pad, the smoothness and hardness of the surface beneath the stamps, ...
Plate proofs are impressions created from finished plates, usually the plates actually used to print stamps.
Proofs. Trial impressions from a die or printing plate that are made before the formal production of stamps. Such proofs are made to check defects in the plate work or design of the stamps.
Proofs: Trial impressions from dies.
Provisional: A stamp issued for temporary usage.
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the item is a die proof, or an impression taken to prove the accuracy of the impression.
Packet - (i) early term for a fast mailboat operating, as far as wind and weather allowed, to a stated schedule between ports.
In traditional engraving, which is a purely linear medium, the impression of half-tones was created by making many very thin parallel lines, a technique called hatching.
in evaluating the Quality of a stamp include Centering, Gum condition (believe it or not, the condition of gum on stamps is so important that there's a profitable - though unethical - industry to regum old stamps), perforations, impression, color, ...
Ghost Tagging: The appearance of a faint image impression in addition to the normal inked impression. This is caused by the miss registration of the phosphor tagging in relation to the ink.
This pane gives the impression of a complete painting across an entire sheet, with the five stamps punched out of the picture.
For many years Australia Post has allowed stamps to be ordered in advance - this includes both general issues, personalised stamps and special items (such as Impressions items).
Albino -- An uninked impression made by a printing plate. Such errors are scarce on stamps. They are more often found on postal stationery.
In 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon flight, the astronauts took with them a die of a postage stamp which they pulled an impression of when they touched down on the moon. Thus, creating the moon's first postage stamp! ...
The reverse is usually the anvil die, although on some issues with striking problems, the obverse was employed as the lower die. Because of the physics of minting, the fixed lower-die impression is slightly better struck than the upper-die ...
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Stamp supplies are used all over the world to indicate a number of messages and seals of specific institutions and corporations; A stamp supplies may be defined as a distinguishing mark or impression used by individuals or firms to represent certain ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Perforation, Printing
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