Tied - a stamp is said to be 'tied' on cover or piece when the postmark or cancellation extends beyond the margins of the copy and is legible on the cover itself, thus proving authenticity. This is particularly necessary in the case of bisects.
Tied -- No ropes involved, but a stamp is said to be tied when the cancellation or postmark extends from the stamp to the paper of the cover, showing that the stamp was on the cover at the time that the postmark or cancel was applied.
Tied: A stamp is said to be tied to a cover when the cancel extends over both the stamp and the envelope paper. Some purists refuse to accept a postmark that doesn’t link a cancellation and the stamp.
Tied: A stamp is said to be "tied" to a cover when the cancellation or postmark extends from the stamp to the cover on which it has been affixed.
Ungummed: A stamp without gum. Many countries in tropical climates have issued ungummed stamps.
Tied - A stamp that is attached to an envelope and a cancel mark touches both items.
Tone spot - A mark on a stamp that has a brown rusty appearance which detracts from the stamp's value.
Tong - Tweezers for handling stamps.
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The cancellation overlaps the stamp, falling on both the postage and the cover, thus affirming that the stamp was affixed prior to the postmarking. Also may be applied to non-postal labels or adhesives to show contemporaneous usage.
A stamp is tied if a cancel or postmark lands partly on the stamp and partly on the envelope on which it was used. This provides a greater degree of confidence that the cover was not faked by adding one or more stamps to it.
Tied: a stamp is considered "tied" when the cancellation proves the stamp originated on that cover.
Tiefdruck: (Ger.) intaglio printing, engraving.
Tied - A postage stamp is tied to its cover by a cancellation clearly extending across both the stamp and the cover, thus assuring that the stamp is still on the original cover for which it paid postage.
I have seen numerous bisected varieties in this later period that were not very convincing even though properly tied with genuine postmarks, ...
Harkaras or foot-runners carried post tied to a stick. He was armed with a spear to protect himself from wild animals. The Harkaras still carry posts in the remote inaccessible parts of India ! ...
Airmail stamps in the past were tied into events of their day with overprints noting trail blazing and experimental flights.
Several commentators have noted that the use of citizens' initiatives to amend constitutions has so tied the government to a mishmash of popular demands as to render the government unworkable.
Inca runners carried quipus - a strange collection of cords tied to a stick with the cords knotted so that the runner bearing them could slip each through his fingers and, as in counting rosary beads, recite the messages the knots recalled to memory.
FDC: First-day cover. A cover bearing a stamp tied by a cancellation showing the date of the official first day of issue of that stamp.
Field Post Office: A military postal service operating in the field, either on land or at sea.
A maximum card consists of a postcard and a stamp tied together by a postmark. The postcard and the stamp should be similar, but not be exactly the same. The postmark should be appropriate to the stamp and postcard.
Occasionally an approved practice, sometimes tolerated, especially when there was a shortage of stamps in a needed denomination. Fractional usages are generally collected tied on cover. One half of a stamp is known as a bisect.
Delivery (COD) Service was introduced seven months later (July 1, 1913), the popularity of Parcel Post service went through the roof as mail order companies' profits exploded. COD and Parcel Post service pushed the development of industry tied to ...
The Hall of Shame - Reperfed stamps - part 2 "Getting a reperfed stamp is certainly a danger when buying regular stamps, but it is even more of a danger when buying coil stamps! The problem is tied up with the history of the coil stamp: ..." ...
 See also: Stamp, Cover, Cancel, Used, Philatelic
  
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