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Line pair - a line through the perforations found between a pair of coil stamps.
Line perforation - a single row of perforating punches, doing one line of perforation at one stroke.
See also comb perforation.

Line pair: A pair of coil stamps with a printed line between them. Stamps produced on a flatbed press have a line from the guideline between panes.

Line pair. A line printed between a pair of coil stamps. Appears because of the guideline that is printed between panes on a sheet of stamps.

Line Pair: A line between a pair of coil stamps. Stamps produced on a flatbed press have a line.

Line Pair - see Joint Line and Guide Line.
Line Perforator - A perforator that applies lines of perforation holes in only one direction.

Line Pair:
This is indicated by a vertical line in the same colour ink as the stamp itself, running between an occasional pair of stamps. This shows the join where subject plates are attached to the cylinder.

Liberty line pair: coil pair from the U S Liberty stamp series of 1954.
Libia: (Fr., Sp.) 1: Libya. 2: overprint on stamps of Italy for Libya, 1912-41.
Libia-Colonie Italiane Poste: inscription on stamps of Libya.

Coil Line Pair - Pair of stamps showing a colored line caused by a gap where the curved printing plate is joined.
COILS - Stamps produced in rolls of 100-500 stamps for use in various postal machines.

Many collectors save the Joint Line Pair on older coils. This is where the flat printing plate was curved around a cylinder and the two ends of the plate came together.

The coil manufacturing process also created what are called "line pairs". If you look at the diagrams above, you will see that the sheets of 400 had lines running horizontally and vertically down their centers.

Line Pair- A line of ink printed between two coil stamps at various intervals.
Line perf.

stamps are normally sold in panes of one hundred subjects. Blocks of stamps bearing such lines are designated as a 'guide-line pair' or 'block', and blocks showing intersecting lines are termed 'center-line blocks'.

See also: Plate, Stamp, Used, Coil, Pair

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