Shift - A mistake due to imperfect contact between a sheet and a transfer roll.
Short Set - An incomplete set of stamps from the same issue.
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.
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.
Color Shift A variety where one or more colors of a multicolored stamp are misaligned.
Color Trials Proofs taken in various selected colors to help in the selection process for the stamp to be issued.
Color Shift
Also known as misaligned or misregistered color; occurs when one or more of the plates used to print multi-colored stamps is out of register with the other colors, ...
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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.
Wagshal shift: collector Jerome Wagshal discovered a plate variety on the 5¢ 1847 stamp.
Wahlkarte: (Ger.) election postal card.
Wahlspruch: (Ger.) slogan.
Währung: (Ger.) currency, money.
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.
10p card upwards shift of olive & dark green by 5 mm
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2 March 1977 ...
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.
" Now fully retired, I still work in all four departments at the American Philatelic Center, shifting where there is a need or when I feel the whim." ...
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.
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Variety -- A variation from the standard form of a stamp. Varieties include watermarks, inverts, imperforates, missing colors, wrong colors and major color shifts. See also Freak.
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.
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