Shift

Makeshift booklets: U.S. stamp booklets manufactured using stamps normally issued in individual panes, packaged in generic blue cardboard covers and dispensed by vending machines. Marcophily: Postmark collecting.

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Make-shift booklets - see MDI booklets. *Make-up Rate Stamp - a nondenominated postage stamp, intended for use on first class mail, printed in anticipation of an increase in postal rates. The stamp is equivalent in value to the amount of the increase.

Colour Shift A variety where one or more colors of a multicolored stamp are misaligned. Colour Trials Proofs taken in various selected colours to help in the selection process for the stamp to be issued.

3333-37 makeshift booklet There are some modern vending machine booklets that look as though they were made by hand, using press sheets from other formats cut in seemingly arbitrary ways and glued into makeshift covers.

Makeshift booklets: U.S. stamp booklets containing stamps normally issued in panes; dispensed by postal vending machines. Makeshift paper: refers to paper used in Europe for stamp production after World War 1.

Shift - A postage stamp printed in more than one colour in which one colour is noticeably off centre.

Tour Number - 'Tour number' is post office slang for 'shift.' Tour 1 is generally from 10:30 p.m. until 7:00 a.m., Tour 2 runs from 7:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., and Tour 3 starts at 3:30 p.m. and runs until midnight.

If shifting occurs in the alignment between a hub and a die, the die will have some of its features doubled. This doubling is then imparted to every coin it strikes. The coins struck from such dies are called doubled-die errors.

The first post office was established by East India Company in Calcutta in 1727. This was shifted to the Court House building in 1762. This makes the Calcutta GPO the oldest post office in India The largest post office in India is the Bombay GPO.

Freak -- An abnormal, usually non-repetitive occurrence in the production of stamps. Most paper folds, overinking and perforation shifts are freaks. Those abnormalities occurring regularly are called varieties or major errors.

His friend along with thousands of others were buried in makeshift graves marked with simple wooden crosses, and wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between them. It was the second last poem he was to write.

Variety: A variation from the standard form of a stamp. Varieties include different watermarks, inverts, imperforates, missing colors, wrong colors and major color shifts. See also Freak, Error.

Affranchissemente de fortune: (Fr.) make-shift franking. Affranchissemente insuffusant: (Fr.) underfranked, insufficiently prepaid. Affranchissemente mixte: (Fr.) mixed franking. Affranchissemente mécanique: (Fr.) meter mark, meter postage.

See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Printing