Self-adhesive stamp
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Self-adhesives belong in your mint collection
By Michael Baadke
In recent years the use of self-adhesive postage stamps has increased significantly.
SELF-ADHESIVE STAMPS:
Some self-adhesive stamps have a special, water-soluble backing, and they can be soaked off envelopes.
Self-Adhesive
Stamp printed on specially gummed paper that will adhere directly to envelope without moistening. The stamps are thus sold attached to backing paper, which can be peeled, from the self-adhesive paper for attachment to mail.
Self-adhesive: Gum on stamps that fixes just with the application of pressure.
Selvage: The paper present on the margins of stamp sheets.
Series: A group of stamps with a similar design or themes ...
Self-Adhesive: Stamp gum that adheres to envelope paper by the application of pressure alone. Most self-adhesive stamps are sold on a coated paper release liner. See also Liner, Linerless, Water-activated.
Self-adhesive - See "Linerless."
Semipostal - Stamp sold at greater than its face value and the additional charge used for a designated purpose, usually charitable.
A self-adhesive booklet and cover, clearly showing a cover
Prestige booklets contain pages of information interleaved with booklet panes. Prestige booklets often contain stamps in a different format to the original issue.
Do self-adhesive stamps soak off?
Until 2007 almost all United States self-adhesives could be removed from the envelope by soaking in water. However, the United States Postal Service has changed the printing specifications and most current U.S.
RW70A Self-adhesive pane of 1
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37¢ Arctic Tundra, pane of 10
5th issue in the Nature of America series.
Adhesive or self-adhesive paper attached to mail to fulfill a special purpose (for example, a customs form) or to indicate special treatment or provision of special postal service (as in the case of an airmail label).
Lacquer Bars ...
The first self-adhesive stamps were issued by Sierra Leone on 10 February 1964.
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This was the first "self-adhesive coil" with setenant designs, in 1993.
1994 Eagle self-adhesive.
3PF: German bisect provisional made 1901, at New Orleans, La. by German Cruiser Vineta to meet need for printed matter rate by ship's crew.
Self-adhesive - A postage stamp with a permanently sticky back, protected before use by a removable piece of paper.
Counting Number - 1.) a number printed on the back of the liner of some self-adhesive coil stamps. This number is an accounting device. 2.) number printed in the trimmed off margin of some earlier coils.
Die Cut: A form of separation usually employed on self-adhesive stamps.
Talking stamp - an issue of seven plastic, self-adhesive stamps in form of miniature gramophone records which played the national anthem and gave commentary on history of the country.
CONVERTIBLE BOOKLET: A small pane of self-adhesive stamps manufactured so it can be folded into a booklet.
C.T.O.: Canceled to Order stamps are postally canceled without going through the mail.
Never store your collections in areas of high humidity"not on the floor of a basement (avoid basements if at all possible) and not beneath water pipes. Even self-adhesive stamps are damaged over time by exposure to excessive moisture.
On top of that, if you want to fill all of the pages in a stamp album for that country, you will need to collect souvenir sheets, booklet stamps, self-adhesives, official mail stamps, air-mail stamps, etc.
Nowadays many postal adminstrations are issuing stamps in booklets for the convenience of customers which are peelable and without the need to wet the gum before sticking onto the envelope. These are known as self-adhesives.
 See also: Adhesive, Stamp, Used, Cover, Sheet
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