The position pieces are small enough to fit on standard album pages. Figure 5 shows a sample page from Scott Publishing Co. for a cross-gutter block from the 1998 Four Centuries of American Art issue.
piece rate—For some mail classes, the postage charged for each mailpiece in addition to the pound rate charge.
Piece
A fragment of an envelope or parcel containing stamps and, usually, the postmark. When stamps are found on such objects, they are said to be on-piece.
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On piece: A stamp on a portion of the original envelope or wrapper showing all or most of the cancel. Stamps on piece are usually saved that way.
On piece: A stamp on a part of an envelope preserved with the cancellation.
Original gum: gum that is present in mint stamps & not tampered with.
Oxidation: Darkening of the ink stamps when they come in contact with air and sunlight.
On Piece - A stamp including a portion of the original envelope which shows the cancel mark.
Ordinary Usage - Indicates the use of the correct rate of postage.
"On piece"
Philatelists use the term "on piece" to describe a cancelled stamp on a piece of paper, usually a corner cut from an envelope, and ideally including all of the postmark/cancellation. A stamp may also be "on cover", i.e.
Used on Piece Stamp retained on a portion of the original cover to preserve the entire postmark
Used Abroad Stamps of one country used and postmarked in another country.
A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as an envelope, letter sheet, post card, lettercard, aérogramme or newspaper wrapper, with an imprinted stamp.
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A position piece is a stamp or multiple with marks on the stamps or in the selvage that identify the location that the piece came from in the sheet or pane.
Fantasy piece
A term applied to coins struck at the whim of Mint officials. Examples include the various 1865 Motto and 1866 No Motto coins.
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An important piece of information a catalogue gives is the price. A catalogue usually gives two prices for each stamp.
Hinges - Small pieces of gummed paper that are used to affix stamps to an album page. Hinges allow for stamps to be removed from an album page without damaging the stamp.
Imperforate - A stamp sold without perforations or separating holes.
On piece: a stamp attached to the original portion of the envelope or wrapper with enough of the cancel showing to ensure authenticity.
Onsdag: (Dan., Nor., Swed.) Wednesday.
On Service: 1) signifying for government use, i.e.
Single-Piece - The "retail" or "full" postage price available for individual pieces of Express Mail, First-Class Mail, Priority Mail, and Package Services. Single-piece prices are higher than prices available for commercial mail.
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FILLER - A stiff piece of paper or cardboard found inside a First Day Cover. It provides necessary stiffness for a clearer cancellation. It also provides protection to help prevent the bending of the cover as it travels through the mail.
Die - 1.) the piece of steel on which a design is engraved. A die has the stamp image engraved in reverse (mirror-image). The creation of the die is the first step in the production of engraved stamps. 2.) the printing surface, ...
Hinge. A tiny piece of glassine-like paper, gummed, folded and then used to mount stamps into an album.
Imperforate. Stamps without perforations or separation device between then on a sheet.
It may be a pen marking or even the removal of a small piece of the stamp.
[2] The marks place by postal authorities which may indicate date, rate, route, or place of the mailing. Similar term to Postmark.
Back to index Redirect This is the process of delivery a mail piece to the new address of a customer that is availing of the Redirection service.
A postage stamp is a tiny piece of paper, representing an obligation by a government to perform a certain postal duty. It bears an imprinted design and, except with Great Britain, bears the name of the country of origin.
Take a piece of clear pliable plastic and hold it down with your finger on the plastic over the area you are not working on. This will hold the stamp in place. Gently erase the pencil mark. It is very important that you erase in one direction only.
Stamps are actually small pieces of gummed paper bearing an official mark and indicating that a tax or fee has been paid for the envelope to arrive to its destiny, ...
This designation pertains to any stamp that has a piece of hinge that adheres to the stamp. Many times collectors will leave the hinge on the stamp rather than remove it for fear that the stamp will tear leaving a thin spot on the back.
Small Thin.
Remember, write down the following information on a piece of paper to order (see "How to Order" if this is your first order): If you are ordering stamp, albums or whatever from several places on this Web Site, ...
Long ago, someone recognized that canceling 100 stamps in a sheet would take less time than precanceling individual stamps on 100 pieces of mail.
When considering the best presentation and storage conditions for paper artifacts (like stamps) and photographs, I advise against applying any type of adhesive to collection pieces.
If there is no selvage or you are still unable to read the watermark, then turn the stamp over so the back is facing you and place it on a large piece of very black paper or card stock.
DIE: A small flat piece of soft steel used in the printing of a stamp. The stamp design is engraved on the die, which in turn prints it on the stamp.
DIE-CUT: Cut by a metal device to produce perforation-like wavy lines for separating stamps.
Cover: An envelope or piece of postal stationery, usually one that has been mailed. Folded letters that were addressed and mailed without an envelope and the wrappers from mailed parcels are also covers.
Fastening stamps to plain pages can be done using hinges - little pieces of paper that have glue on one side. You can buy them at any stamp collector store (get them to show you how to use them, and ignore the next two sentences!).
Certified Mail - a mail service that provides the individual sending a piece of mail with a receipt when the item enters the mail stream. It also provides a record of delivery when it reaches the final post office for dispatch to recipient ...
'Perforation' is the effect of removal from a sheet of stamps of many small, usually circular, pieces of paper. This allows the stamps to be separated from each other, usually by folding along the perforations, and then tearing.
The cutter actually scores the crust, making it easier to separate each piece. Different forms of rouletting exist. Most have French names.
The gutter is the blank space, usually of stamp format, between the panes of a sheet of stamps. A gutter pair consists of two stamps separated by a stamp-sized piece of the gutter.
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Stamps are placed into the book using something called a Hinge. Hinges are small folded pieces of paper with glue on one side.
While they are normally represented as coloured dots, once in a while they can reflect the theme of the issue, as in the case of the 1996 Literacy issue where the traffic lights are in the shape of jigsaw puzzle pieces to complement the jigsaw ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Cancel
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