Singles Only
3611
34¢ Longleaf Pine Forest, pane of 10 (4th in "Nature of America" series - 4/26/02) ...
Subsequent single-use covers occur when a stamp or postal stationery item issued to pay one postal rate happens to exactly pay a different postal rate after one or more rate changes.
Single-Frame Awardt - for shows where there is an ARA meeting.
Contact: Paul A. Nelson, 4700 N. Kolb Road, Apt. 11101, Tucson, AZ 85750;
Phone: 520-891-6757; Email: pnels@att.net
American Topical Association ...
single-piece rate—A postage rate available for individual pieces of Express Mail, Priority Mail, First-Class Mail, Parcel Post, Media Mail, and Library Mail. It is not available for Periodicals except under the rate category of basic.
Single counter sheets do not always have to be separated by empty fields. Issues which were not intended to have edges were naturally manufactured without empty fields.
Single stamps bearing the inscriptions of more than one language, such as those of Canada (English and French).
Bilingual Pair ...
A single copy of each of these ninety-three stamps could have been purchased at the time of issue for approximately $200 (three of these stamps had a face value of 36 pounds or roughly $180) and the list value of the same stamps at current prices ...
On single-color definitive stamps, which were printed in sheets of 400 (20x20), the guidelines showed where the sheet was to be cut into panes of 100.
With single stamps off paper, one can not apply these three rules rigorously. Post-cancelations occasionally run straight across the stamp. Well centered cancelations from towns with short names sometimes seem to fit single stamps: ...
Plate Number Single - an individual stamp, mint or used, with a plate number attached.
Single-Piece - The "retail" or "full" postage price available for individual pieces of Express Mail, First-Class Mail, Priority Mail, and Package Services. Single-piece prices are higher than prices available for commercial mail.
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of Malay Peninsula; (located in Scott Catalogue after Malaya); 1842: became British; then one of the British Straits Settlements, Straits Settlements stamps used, 1942: Japanese occupation, overprints on stamps of the Straits Settlements, a single ...
Se-tenant - Two or more postage stamps that have never been separated (the term is particularly applied to stamps of different denominations or designs issued in a single sheet, booklet pane, or coil).
Other options might be to turn a plate block into a plate single if that section of it is good, split up a sheet saving the plate block(s), if possible, and sell or trade the remaining singles.
Column - A single-stamp width multiple of stamps.
Combination Cover - An envelope or card affixed with one or more stamps of the same theme.
Coil stamp - stamps processed in a single row and prepared for sale in rolls, often for dispensing from stamp vending and affixing machines. Some coils, including most U.S.
Provincial Departmental Official - perfins used by a single provincial department or agency;
Federal Departmental Official - perfins used by a single federal government department or agency; and ...
Line Perforation Rows of stamps are punched in ‘single lines', the sheets then being turned sideways-on and the process repeated.
Most catalogues will not have a picture of every single stamp issued as this would be an impossible task, but one stamp in each set is usually shown. You should find it easy enough to identify any stamp from the basic illustration in the catalogue.
Coil: Stamps that are processed in a long single row.
Collateral material: Any material that supports or explains the philatelic material.
Combination cover: Cover having stamps of more than one country.
Miniature sheet: A small sheet containing a single stamp, pair, block or set of stamps, with wide, inscribed and/or decorative margins, issued as a commemorative souvenir for collectors. Also known as souvenir sheet.
A new discovery, usually of something that was not thought to exist. It can be a single item or a hoard of stamps or covers.
First Day Cover:
A cover bearing a stamp tied by a cancellation showing the date of the first day of issue of that stamp.
You can find out-of-date catalogues at a real bargain, but if you want the latest stamps, you must buy a new catalogue. You can buy them for a single country, or you can buy one that includes many countries.
Perforation of the whole sheet in a single process
Imperforate
Without perforations ...
Quadripartition: A block or strip of four stamps that together complete a single entire design. See United States Scott 1448-51, the 1972 Cape Hatteras National Seashore issue.
Compound Perforations: Different gauge perforations on different sides of a single stamp. The sides with the different perforations are usually perpendicular.
Good envelopes with interesting cancellations and stamps are more valuable than single stamps. Do not tear them till you get an expert opinion. Cut out the envelopes around the stamps. Take care not to spoil the stamp.
Hairlines are found on virtually all proof coins, and are considered the most important single factor in grading high quality proof coins. They sometimes appear on business strikes as well.
Trademark Protected by law, a registered symbol or device used exclusively by a single merchant or manufacturer on his goods to distinguish them from the goods made and sold by others.
This pane gives the impression of a complete painting across an entire sheet, with the five stamps punched out of the picture. The effect is that of a single continuous scene flowing from selvedge to stamp, ...
(1851) issued by the native government and used mostly by American missionaries serving in Hawaii, an unused set of eight is valued at about $100,000. In the 1890s, a French collector murdered his best friend when he would not sell him his single ...
(Don't use the Sunday comics! The colored inks might stick to the wet stamps.) It's a good idea to use your stamp tongs (see next page!) to lift the wet stamps, instead of using your fingers. Lay the stamps in a single layer, ...
M-Bags M-bags is an international business mail service for companies sending large volumes of mail on a regular basis to a single delivery address within a country.
Stocksheets offer the same conveniences as our Hingeless Albums plus the flexibility handling a multitude of stamp sizes with 2, 3, 4 or 5 slots per page. In addition, their single page 3-hole format allows you the freedom to quickly rearrange your ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Printing
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