Straight edge - when the outer edge of a sheet of stamps is not perforated, marginal copies will have at least one straight edge - the corner copies having two, at right angles to each other.
Straight Edge: Flat-plate or rotary-plate stamps from the margins of panes where the sheets were cut apart. Straight-edge stamps have no perforations on one or two adjacent sides. Sometimes straight-edge stamps show a guideline.
Straight edge (SE) - Stamps which have no perforations on one or two adjacent sides.
Strip - Three or more intact stamps in a row or column.
Surtax - See "Semipostal." ...
Straight Edge
Any perforated stamp with one or more sides without perforations. Straight edges occur both naturally and as damage to a stamp.
Straight Edge:
Stamp with one or two adjacent edges lacking perforations as issued. These occur on margin or corner stamps, most frequently seen on Canadian precancels.
- Straight edges, stamps that are cut straight to all sides and do not have perf teeth.
- Reperforated, are stamps that have straight edges and have been perforated.
- Blunt perf, a stamp with a perforation shorter than the usual.
Stamp bearing straight edges on all four sides.
Invert
Stamp with one part of its design upside down in relation to the rest of the stamp.
3-Sidig perforeing: (Nor.) perforations on 3 sides, with straight edge on fourth side.
2 x 4: at one time it was popular to cut the corner, two inches by four inches, containing the stamp and postmark off envelopes and mount them in an album.
A pair of attached coil stamps shows off the straight edge better than a single stamp. Many collectors save the Joint Line Pair on older coils.
As a result, every stamp in each booklet had at least one straight edge. Stamps in the outer corners of the panes (opposite the binding end) had two adjoining straight edges. Many collectors used this straight-edge characteristic to identify a U.S.
Position 9 from the top row with wide natural straight edge at top, rich colors on bright fresh paper, placed back to back with normal 24c 1918 Air Post (C3), held between circular glass disks secured in a gold-metal frame with clasp at top, ...
Two opposite edges (most often the top and bottom) usually have straight edges rather than perforations. Coils are issued for use in dispensers or vending machines or for automatic affixing equipment. stamps.
This is a perforation that the hole was not punched out and the paper is covering the perforation.
Regummed (RG). A mint stamp that had no gum, but was regummed.
Straight Edge (SE).
COIL: Stamps issued in rolls, rather than sheets. Coil stamps have straight edges on two opposite sides.
COMMEMORATIVE: Stamps honoring persons, events, or themes. Sold for a limited time only.
The one great problem facing postal clerks was that the stamps did not have perforations, or a means of separating them cleanly and easily. Scissors, knives and any form of straight edged tool were used, many times with unfortunate effect, ...
Coil: Stamps processed in a long single row and prepared for sale in rolls, often for dispensing from stamp-vending and affixing machines. Some coils, including most U.S. coils, have a straight edge on two parallel sides and perforations on the ...
to produce booklet panes directly; printing onto large sheets, then cutting into booklet panes each with a small number of stamps, and perforating between the stamps of each pane. These kinds of stamps usually have 1, 2, or 3 straight edges, ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Perforations, Cover, Perforation
  
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