Letter sheet

Letter sheet
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Letter Sheet - an item of postal stationery similar in format to an aerogram. Example: Scott U293. Privately produced letter sheets exist.

Mulready Letter Sheets
Here's what the Two Pence letter sheet looked like unfolded, and below are enlargements of all the text.

Figure 4. Letter sheets, such as this 2¢ Gen. U.S. Grant from 1886, are collected by those who prefer postal stationery. Click on image to enlarge.

There are also letter sheets, postcards, envelopes, and newspaper wrappers with a form of an embossed stamp on them.

Aerograma: (Sp.) airmail postal stationery, air letter sheet.
Aerogramm: (Ger.) airmail postal stationery, air letter sheet.
Aérogramme: (Fr.) official U.P.U.

Simultaneously with issuing of the first adhesive stamp, Great Britain also issued the world's first governmentstamped envelope and letter sheet.

Letter sheet - See Aerogramme.
Lift, to - To unstick an adhesive from a cover or any other substrate.

The first airmail stationery, consisting of postcards and letter sheets, was produced in Paris for carriage by balloon in 1870.
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Aerogram: A postage-paid airletter sheet with gummed flaps that is written on and then folded to form an envelope. Aerograms are normally carried at less than the airmail letter rate. No enclosures are permitted.

The official Universal Postal Union designation for an airletter sheet. These sheets, with gummed flaps, are written on and folded into themselves to form their own envelope and are carried at less than the letter airmail rate.

Entire - a complete folded letter sheet or envelope (or any cover). If the stamp indicium (imprinted stamp) is cut from the stationery item, a cut square is created.
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Term adopted by UPU (q.v.) in 1951 to denote special letter sheets printed on lightweight paper and intended to be sent by airmail. (q.v. Air Letter).
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Cover - an envelope, post card, or folded letter sheet that has been cancelled
Cover (souvenir) - an envelope or item of postal stationery cancelled as a keepsake ...

Lightweight postal stationery, otherwise known as Air Letter Sheets, used for the economical transmission of letters by air.
Airmail Stamp ...

15¢ Hot Air Ballooning
air letter sheet cancelled First Day of Issue (1973)
Used 0.30
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should); Edison (the first, from a group known as "2 cent reds" of the twenties focused on the electric light); Thaddeus Lowe, the Civil War balloonist (on a stamp for the bicentennial of manned flight in 1983 and more recently on an airletter sheet); ...

See also: Sheet, Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel