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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." ...

 


Imprimatur - The first sheets of stamps produced from an approved plate.
Imprint Block - A block from part of a sheet where the printer's name or imprint appears on the margin.

Feuille-témoin: (Fr.) imprimatur sheet.
Fez Mequinez: Morocco local post, 1897.
Fez Sefrou: Morocco local post, 1894.
Fezzan-Ghadmes: see Libya.

Imprimatur - In philately, usually a postage stamp cut from one of the first sheets to be printed of a new design or new plate, often on ungummed paper and usually imperf; ...

See also: Philatelic, Official, Stamp, Overprint, Label