Wing margin -- A stamp from the side of a pane perforated so it has an unusually wide unprinted side area.
Wing Margin: Early British stamps from the side of a pane with selvage attached. British sheets printed before 1880 were perforated down the center of the gutter, producing oversized margins on one side of stamps adjacent to the gutter.
Wing Margins - See "Flappers."
Wiping creases - Marks on printing plates that are caused by cleaning blades and which are transferred to a stamp.
Wing margin - Postage stamps from sheets divided by wide gutters into panes may have a wing margin along one side, there being a wide imperforate margin between the printed design and the perforation.
Wing margin: the extra unprinted margin left as part of a stamp by the perforating machine.
Wings for Norway: a commemorative issued in Norway and "Little Norway" Canada in 1946
Winnipeg Messenger Co.
 See also: Local, Sheet, Margin, Printing, Stamp
  
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