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Pane: The unit into which a full press sheet is divided before sale at post offices. What a post office customer may refer to as a "sheet of stamps" is more properly called a pane.

 


Pane-Position Diagrams - marginal marking first used in 1992. This diagram identifies the position on a sheet from which the pane was cut.

Pane Part of a sheet of stamps, usually separated by ‘gutter' margins.
Paquebot (‘Packet Boat'). Term given to letters posted on board ships at sea and to the form of postmark used.

Pane:
A portion of the original sheet as cut for sale at the post offices.
Part Perforate: ...

PANE: Stamps come off the press in large sheets known as press sheets. These are cut into smaller sheets called panes, before being sent to post offices for sale to the public.

Pane. The unit into which a full sheet of stamps is divided before it is sold at a post office. Many U.S. stamps were printed in sheets of 400 and broken down into four panes of 100 stamps each before sale.

Pane: units into which a press sheet is divided before sale .
Paquebot: Cancellation indicating the use of sea transport in mailing.
Par Avon: French for “By Air'.

Pane vs. Sheet
A pane of stamps is the largest quantity of stamps you can buy at a post office.

Pane - The unit into which a full press sheet is divided before its sale.
Pane - Stamps as sold by the Post Office, typically 50 stamps.
Par Avion - French for "By Air,'' and refers to airmail.

Pane: The unit into which a full sheet is divided before sale at post offices. The "sheets" that one normally sees at post offices are panes.

Pane
This is often commonly, mistakenly, referred to as a sheet. A printing sheet is cut into smaller multiples during processing to produce post office panes. A single page from a booklet of stamps also is referred to as a pane.

Booklet Pane
A small "page" of stamps in a stamp booklet. The panes are sometimes made up of mixed-value stamps, popular with some collectors.

Pane - The proper name for a sheet of stamps sold at a post office. Most panes include a plate number and other markings in the margin or selvage.

a pane of four
b pane of five plus label
c pane of six
d booklet of 20 plus label ...

booklet pane - Years ago, some stamps were sold in little "booklets", even with a cover on the booklet. When you opened the cover, you saw a small sheet of perhaps 6 stamps. There might have been several of these small sheets.

B (in a box): auction abbreviation for booklet pane.
B4: auction term for block of four.
B 15: written on early 19th century ail means hat the item was carried by a canal packet boat outside of the U.S. Mails before being brought to a U.S.

Pane - (i) Page of postage stamps from a stamp booklet. (ii) Portion of a sheet of postage stamps forming a simple fraction of the whole, ...

Plate Block: A block of stamps from the corner or side of a pane including the selvage bearing the number(s) of the plate(s) used to print the sheet from which the pane was separated.

Blocks of stamps from the edges of the original sheet or pane often include sections of the sheet's margin, which may have a wide variety of information.

Dramatic miscut on forever pane
Stamps that were supposed to be at the bottom wound up at the top instead on a 2007 forever stamp booklet pane. On the side that normally has eight stamps and a large label, the off-center label alone remains.

Selvage: The border of paper around a sheet or pane of stamps. 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.

Miniature Sheet: A smaller-than-normal pane of stamps issued only in that form or in addition to full panes.

The first use of paper within a pane to convey something other than textual messages was the 1978 CAPEX souvenir sheet, which featured both the CAPEX 78 logo as well as the logo of the Universal Postal Union.
TAB ART AND INFORMATION ...

Pillars - repetitive decorations or lines printed in the pane margins of watermarked paper to prohibit its being counterfeited
Pin roulette - tiny punctures that do not actually poke through the paper ...

These are ideal for stamps collectors who need a safe, convenient way to store and display sheets of stamps of 20, 50, and 100-pane sizes.

Prestige booklet and booklet pane
phosphorescence
Self-adhesive booklets ...

it out! - aj) A Few Holes, More or Less by Jerry Jensen "The Michel Specialized catalog was the first postwar catalog to list German stamps having three sides with normal perforations and the bottom side imperforate (much like many booklet pane ...

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