Space Filler
By John Finch, About.com Guide
Definition: A space filler is copy of a hard to find and expensive stamp, that is in a lesser condition than is acceptable.
Some might say that space fillers are good only for filling a space in your collection until something better comes along.
Space Filler: A stamp in poor condition used to fill the designated space in a stamp album until a better copy can be found.
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Space Filler - A poor condition stamp that is used to fill the designated space in an album until a better specimen is (hopefully) acquired.
Space Fillers Only
Want to fill a lot of album space fast and cheap? These stamps have multiple faults and no self-respecting stamp collector would want them as permanent parts of their collection. BUT they make great space-fillers! ...
Replicas: printed stamp reproductions were made as space fillers; usually printed in one color, mostly blue, for collectors to use to fill blank spaces in their albums.
For anything but the rarest stamps, where there are so few that any condition is acceptable, stamps with GOOD centering are considered little more than space fillers. Some people call this grade AVERAGE.
F = FINE.
Many of these crude counterfeits were made in the 1870s, when there was a ready market for them as space fillers. There was little intent to defraud contemporary collectors.
Very Good: A well centered stamp but may have minor imperfections such as freshness or color Good/Average: Not well centered or having minor flaws. Space Filler: Major flaws but suitable for temporary inclusion in a ...
Stamps which fall below these standards should be ignored and are not worth acquiring by the serious collector; however beginners sometimes collect them as starters. These are known as "space fillers".
" Only otherwise very valuable stamps would be offered at auction in "poor" condition. Collectors sometimes wish them as "space fillers" - to fill a space in their albums until a better copy may be secured.
 See also: Stamp, Filler, Condition, Used, Cancel
  
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