The Red Baron flies once more on stamps
By Rick Miller
Postage stamp collections can be broadly divided into three categories: worldwide, by country or area, and by topic. Some collectors may have collections in all three categories.
Red
Describes a copper coin that still retains 95 percent or more of its original color. (Abbreviated as RD)
Red-Brown ...
Red was the UPU standard for domestic letters; the 2c rate in the US lasted from 1883-1917 and 1919-1932 ...
GAME RED: Try this set of games for young stamp collectors. They are arranged from "NEWBIE", to "COOL COLLECTOR", to "DUDE MASTER". Just click the answers you think are correct. When you are finished, click for why any of your answers were wrong.
The Penny Red was used in the UK for many years, and comes in hundreds of variations.
5: B-blank; error appearing on GB imperforate penny-red stamps of 1841-54 in which the lower right check letter box received no letter (B-A, plate 77 of die I). 6: with eagle and United States of America: South Carolina Custom House revenue seal.
PAIR (top #20435/20446), GD, color shift - red cross touches left side of frame AVG .35 nln 702 Plt No. PAIR (bot #20447/20437) F-VF .85 nln 702 Plt No. BLOCK (4), Bot #20495/20469, GD, margin torn AVG .30 nln 703 PNS (top #20480), NH VF .
Aniline - Oily liquid, originally distilled from coal-tar, used as the basis of certain dyes in postage stamps; in particular a bright-red ink, manufactured partly from aniline, which immediately penetrates between the fibres of uncoated paper.
He is currently Board Chair of the American Red Cross Greater Alleghenies Blood Region, which serves parts of six states.
BUT the transfer office in London stamped it in red (a credit), accepting payment of 60 cents, the entire amount of remaining postage, so on arrival in Funchal, Madeira, it received the blue "160", ...
The 2c stamp features a sister ship of the Restaurationen and is red and black. The 5c stamp featured above shows a Viking ship of 1000 A.D. with the flag of Norway on one side and the flag of the United States on the other.
Registration Label Usually printed in blue or red, incorporating the letter ‘R' or its foreign equivalent, affixed by postal officials to packets which have been ‘registered' for safe transit.
Airmail Border - Red and blue markings on border cover indicating airmail service.
Albino - A rare error in stamp production where an un-inked impression is made by a printing plate.
This gauge works somewhat well if used only in conjunction with their catalog color listing. You see, a particular shade in their catalog, brick red for example, might be described as dark brown-red in Scott's.
Color guides provide another helpful guide to differentiate between stamps which appear similar. Using a color guide can help you tell if your stamp is rose, rose-red, deep rose-red or dull rose-red.
Huck-Cottrell Presses - a group of high speed, intaglio, web-fed presses first used to print the bi-color International Red Cross stamp of 1952 (Scott 1016). These presses were similar to a Stickney press, but faster.
National Socialist Party adopted it when it was formed 1919, and in 1935 the black swastika on a white circle with a red background became the national flag of Germany until the end of the second World War.
Oftentimes, I will make a photocopy of the maximum card, showing him on the photocopy in red pen exactly where I want the postmark placed. I also enclose a S.A.S.E.
The non-organic compounds used to tag stamps include zinc orthosilicate (which produces a yellow-green glow) and calcium silicate (which produces an orange-red glow).
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Trans
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