Stamps postmarked in quantities for sale to the stamp trade, without giving any postal service in return.

A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp issued to commemorate a place, event or person. Most postal services world-wide issue

The initials denoting stamps printed by the copper-plate method, although not necessarily from plates of copper. See Line-engraving.

The envelope or wrapper. A stamp retained on the whole envelope is “on original cover,” or “on entire.” If only

This is a paper which has been coated on the printing side with a solution of chalk and gum; it

British stamp sheets printed by rotary photogravure from cylindrical plates bear small figures in the lower left margin, below the

A block of stamps with margins from the corner of a sheet, of interest mainly when the stamps from that

A record letter, or letter with number, printed in the margin of a sheet of stamps, usually in the bottom

A stamp of unusual form, e.g. round, oval, octagonal, etc., trimmed close to the conformation of the impression. Stamps which

Circular Date Stamp or Postmark

Cuts-outs are usually cut square, or rather, rectangular, not close round the design. Where adhesive stamps are of peculiar shape,