Regular Issues Album:
Features: Spaces for regular United States stamps plus airmail, postage due, special delivery, ducks, Confederate States, etc. Each space illustrated and catalog number from New American Stamp Catalog included. Priced at $5.
REGULAR ISSUE: Also known as a definitive, this stamp is issued over a long period of time and in various denominations. Regular issues are usually small in size.
Regular Issue - See "Definitive."
Rejoined Perforations - Perforations that have been reattached, usually via adhesives.
Release Date - Formal date when a postal authority makes an item available for purchase.
Regular issue
A coin struck for commerce. There may be Regular and/or Proof strikes, as well as die trials of regular issues.
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Regular issues -- aka definitives -- are issued in great quantities and remain available for a much longer period of time than commemoratives. Today's Forever Stamps, are issued in quantities ample enough to satisfy collector need.
Regular issues of stamps as distinct from commemoratives.
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Regular issue stamps are the ones that you usually see on envelopes. These stamps are also called definitive stamps and they are used to pay regular mail.
Commemorative stamps ...
regular issue
Stamp issued for an indefinite period and quantity for ordinary postal use. See definitive. [Back to top]
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Twelve Gold Coast regular issue stamps were overprinted "Ghana Independence 6th March 1957" to mark the event. The 1/2-penny stamp from the set (Ghana Scott 5) is shown in Figure 10.
2: Scott Catalog Number prefix for Occupation Regular Issues. 3: abbreviation for normal (price). 4: with eagle and United States of America: New Hampshire Custom House revenue seal. 5: Naira; currency unit in Nigeria; Ngultrum, (Bhutan).
Definitives - Regular issues of postage stamps that are normally sold for a longer period of time. Normally printed in large numbers.
Des. - Abbreviation for 'designed by'.
The regular issue (7 August 1990), commemorating the Nineteenth World Congress of the International Union of Forestry and Research Organizations, held in Montreal, was a sheet of 20 containing four different designs.
In most cases, they were produced by overprinting regular issues with "WAR TAX" or "WAR STAMP", though the overprint "WAR" was occasionally used (as in the issues of British Honduras).
Like his work on the regular issues, this is the essential guide to all aspects of the design and printing of the U.S. commemorative stamps in the period it covers, 1901 to 1947.
Scott Identification Guide to U.S. Stamps: Regular Issues 1847-1934 by Charles N. Micarelli (2006), SB, new.
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For foreign collectors who do not have a ScottsŪ Catalog -- ask by date and name of stamp for commeratives. For regular issues -- date and value of stamp (such as 50¢ of 1990's) I'll do my best to help you out.
Definitive. A stamp issued for an indefinite period to pay a particular rate of postage. Also called "regular issues".
Denomination. The face value of a stamp.
Such stamps may, or may not, be supplied free, but are a check upon usage and expenditure. During the Elizabethan period in Canada, regular issue definitives were overprinted 'G' to note Government usage.
Indeed, during this entire period from the start of modern stamp issues through to the 1917 revolution, the number of zemstvo issues were vastly greater than the number of regular issues (probably because of the large number of regional bodies all ...
That portion of the device that imprints this information once is called a subject; most devices consist of ten or more subjects, spaced to fit stamps of the regular issue current when the device was made.
the Turkish Empire, especially, many foreign nations maintained their own postal systems as part of their extraterritorial powers. Usually, special stationery and stamps were used by these offices. Most consisted of overprints on the regular issues ...
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