Marginal markings: Collecting on the edge
By Kathleen Wunderly
Two people are in the post office, preparing to put newly purchased stamps on outgoing mail.
Marginal Guide Marks Lines, dots, arrows and other marks in the margins of sheets of stamps use as guides by the printer in perforating and trimming the printed sheets.
Margin: 1) The selvage surrounding the stamps in a sheet, often carrying inscriptions of various kinds. 2) The unprinted border area around the stamp design.
Margin. The selvage surrounding the stamps on a sheet.
Meter Stamp. Government permit of various face value and printed by machine on a piece of adhesive paper (or on the actual envelope) to indicate postage paid.
Margin
The paper bordering the stamps on a sheet, as well as the blank paper bordering the printed image on the stamps themselves.
Miniature Sheet ...
Margin: The surrounding paper on the stamp sheet.
Maxim card: A picture postcard with a cancelled stamp.
Miniature sheet: A smaller pane of stamps issued as a collectible.
Margin: The unprinted border area around the stamp design. The collectible grades of stamps are determined by the position of the design in relation to the edge of the stamp as perforated or, in the case of imperforate stamps, ...
Margin Copy - A stamp with evidence that it was part of the margin column of a stamp sheet.
Maximaphily - Refers to hobby of collecting maximum cards.
Margin Copy
Any stamp identifiable as coming from the edge of a sheet or pane and showing evidence of the sheet margin or selvage. Such stamps come from one of the top, bottom, or side margins of a stamp pane.
*Margin - any printed or unprinted paper on a sheet or pane of stamps that does not contain a stamp. Marginal markings are found in the margin.
Wing margin: Early British stamps from the side of a pane with selvage attached. British sheets printed before 1880 were perforated down the center of the gutter, producing oversized margins on one side of stamps adjacent to the gutter.
Marginal - When the watermark design appears in the sheet margins. Examples can be found in the many British Commonwealth issues.
Margin SLOGANs &
Stamp Subject INFORMATION
1477
USA BICENTENNIAL ERA slogan, 8¢ Posting a Broadside, block of 6 ...
The margin around the sheet of stamps. The selvage may include the plate number, copyright, and other markings.
I was told my cover would be worth more if the stamp were tied. What does this mean?
Fina marginaler: (Swed.) full margins, cmplete margins.
Final master proof: combination of all separations to produce the complete design in photogravure or offset printing.
Finanzstempel: (Ger.) revenue cancel. Fincastle, Va.
Wing margin - Postage stamps from sheets divided by wide gutters into panes may have a wing margin along one side, there being a wide imperforate margin between the printed design and the perforation.
Centered - In a perfectly perforated sheet of postage stamps, each stamp has the same size of margin on each side; ...
stamps are designed so that stamp collectors purchase them; In these countries, stamps catalog prove to be a vital source of revenue; In such countries, the stamps catalog produced exceed the postal needs of the country by a commendable margin; ...
If the stamp has selvage (margins) still attached, this is the best place to start trying to read the watermark. If you discover a watermark variety such as an inverted watermark*, do not detach the selvage.
stamps printed in the early twentieth century have initials in the sheet margins, sometimes many sets.
Near-Perfect Centering (large margins on imperforate stamps) Very Fine: Above Average Condition for year issued. Well centered (full margins on imperfs) Fine: Average appearance for that particular stamp and year issued.
The result is stamps in the margins, or on inserted pages. Blank albums are the answer to the more individualized problems. They lend themselves to normal stamps, blocks, margin copies and stamped envelopes.
centring Considerably less margin on one or two sides, but must be clear of stamp edges on imperforate issues, and clear of perforations on other issues.
cancellation Any clear postmark is acceptable.
Very Good
(VG) ...
Arrow - marking in a margin, as a guide for cutting sheets into smaller units for perforations. After 1894, arrows were used at both ends of guide lines of U. S. stamps printed from flat plates.
Two sides have wider margins than the other two. Notice that the top and left sides nearly touch the design of the stamp but do not cut into the design of the stamp. This grade was common in stamps prior to 1940.
It used to be that it was ‘the unprinted marginal paper on a sheet or pane of stamps’, but these days, there is often wording or design included in the selvage.
A block of stamps with sheet margins showing a plate number or numbers. Often it is known simply as a plate block..
Postal stationery:
Postmark: ...
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Close examination of the Penny Red, left, reveals a "148" in the margin, indicating that it was printed with plate #148. Stamps printed from plate #77 are extremely rare.
Four or more attached stamps still fastened to the margin on which the number of the printing plate is inscribed.
Postal Stationery
Postmark ...
CENTERING: The way the design on a stamp is positioned. If perfect, margins between design and perforations are equal on all sides.
Later advertisements appeared on the sheet margins (selvedge), on interleaved pages in stamp booklets and on labels attached to stamp panes (also in booklets). Also appear on back of stamps e.g. New Zealand.
Miniature Sheets
A small-size sheet with the set (or part) of the issued stamps with decorative margins. Miniatures sheets are generally not broken up by post offices.
Named because it was intended to facilitate trade in the Far East, the Trade dollar was made with a marginally higher silver content in an attempt to gain acceptance in commerce throughout the world.
The Post Office called it cement and early stamps bore instructions printed on the sheet margins - 'In Wetting the Back be careful not to remove the Cement'.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Plate, Cover, Catalog
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