Vignette the featured portrait or commemorative scene usually found in the center of a stamp design.
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VIGNETTE: The central portion of a stamp design.
WATER-ACTIVATED: Stamp gum that needs moistening in order to adhere to a surface.
Vignette -- The central portrait, figure or other design element of a stamp.
Wing margin -- A stamp from the side of a pane perforated so it has an unusually wide unprinted side area.
Vignette: The central part of a stamp design, usually surrounded by a border. In some cases the vignette shades off gradually into the surrounding area.
APA adopts Vignette of Philatelia
During the Chicago convention in 1887, Eugene Dill, a member from St. Louis proposed that the APA adopt the vignette of Philatelia as shown on the cover of their official journal The Western Philatelist.
Tabacs-Vignette de Controle: (Fr.) taxpaid labels for tobacco.
Tabac: (Fr.) tobacco products; French colony revenue inscription.
Tabara: (Rom.) camp.
Tabasco: overprint on stamps of Mexico for Tabasco district, 1856-1883.
Block Tagging A form of phosphorescent tagging, also known as block-over-vignette.
Vignette Usually found on undivided back cards, consisting of a design which does not occupy the whole of the picture side. Vignettes may be anything from a small sketch in one corner of the card, to a design cover three quarters of the card.
Another way of describing them is … ‘a picture postcard with the vignette of the stamp as the main design’. Modern Australian maximum cards collected by maximaphelists have a pictorial postmark similar to that used on an FDC.
Plate Sequence Number - A number engraved in the corner of the vignette and frame plates of the bicolored Pan-American issue of 1901 (Scott 294 and 295) to permit the same set of vignette and frame plates to be kept together on the press.
The frame is usually ornamental, and there have been instances where there is more story in the frame than in the vignette.
VF - Stamp condition, "very fine."
VG - Stamp condition, "very good."
Vignette - A stamp design's center which is usually surrounded by a border and, sometimes, includes a gradual shading into the surrounding area.
a sheet characterised by a visible flaw, or a multicoloured stamp in which one colour is missing or badly shifted, or a stamp in any other way incorrectly or abnormally manufactured; not necessarily an error.
Veldpost - Field Post.
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I'm not sure why, but the majority of the good examples I have seen are from the Pan-American Exposition issue of 1901, and primarily for the plates used to print the vignettes (center of the design), in black.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Printing, Catalog, Frame
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