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Mirror image - negative or reverse impression. An offset.
Missing colour - major error where one (or more colours) are missing due to a problem while printing stamps.

 


Mirror Image: An offset negative or reverse impression.
Mission Mixture: The lowest grade of stamp mixture, containing unsorted but primarily common stamps on paper, as purchased from missions or other institutions. See also Bank mixture.

Mirror Image - An offset negative or reverse impression.
Miscut - A stamp with a trimming error.

Abklatsch: (Ger.) offset, mirror image.
Abkommen: (Ger.) agreement, convention.
Abkürzn:(Ger.) abbreviated.
Abkürzungen:(Ger.) abbreviations.
Ablieferungbescheinigung: (Ger.) receipt for delivery.

Usually an offset impression is a mirror image.
Offset-lithography - Surface printing from cylinders. See lithography.
Og. - Abbreviation for 'orginal gum', i.e.

If this image were directly transferred to paper, it would create a mirror image and the paper would become too wet.

The 20th century was wracked by the emergence of two totalitarian ideologies that, while completely antithetical, were mirror images of each other.
Figure 1. A 6-pfennig+24pf Philatelist semipostal stamp, Germany Scott B201.

I bought my copy at Pacific 97, and gave it an entire page in my souvenir album of the show, with the cancels of both countries, even though it had been issued three years earlier. It was just too beautiful to pass up, with each stamp a mirror image ...

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

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