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Laid paper is produced in the same manner, generally, as wove paper, but the screening is parallel and therefore the paper has a ribbed effect. Where these lines are widely spaced the paper is known as batonne.
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Laid Paper -- One of the two basic types of paper used in stamp printing. Laid paper is distinguished from the other type -- wove paper -- by the presence of thin, parallel lines visible when the paper is held to light.
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Laid paper -- A type of stamp paper with thin parallel lines and thicker perpendicular lines that are essentially watermarks caused by the wires and chains of the paper machine. Stamps can be either vertically or horizontally laid.
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Laid Paper - paper with the appearance of alternating dark and light lines, created by wires used in the paper making process. Similar to but less pronounced than ribbed paper. Example: 2¢ Jackson of 1863 (Scott 73).
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Laid paper can be identified by either horizontal or vertical narrow line as you look through the stamp. Granite paper is rather unique. It looks like wove paper but has blue and red silk fibers throughout.
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Batonne: A wove or laid paper with watermark like lines deliberately added in the papermaking process and intended as a guide for handwriting.
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Papel verjurado: (Sp.) laid paper. Paper: see various papers under name or type of paper; 1: since most stamps are printed on paper, faults in the paper are sought by collectors as freaks or oddities, in some cases, ...
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Laid paper - Paper watermarked with close parallel lines, with other lines, much wider spaced, crossing at right angles. Last Day - The final day of a postal rate, post office operation or similar occurrence.
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Western Australia 1854 4d Inverted Swan ($60,000 used) United States 1868 1 cent Z Grill (Sold for $935,000 in 1988) Canada 1851 12 pence Victoria on Laid Paper ($80,000 unused and $50,000 used) United States 1918 Inverted Jenny ($150,000 unused) ...
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 See also: Used, Printing, Stamp, Trans, Sheet
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