Stamps whose franking power is circumscribed, within a town, or district, or limited to a particular route. Where issued by

Contraction Litho. Stamps printed from designs drawn or transferred upon stone, or in modern practice on metal surfaces substituted for

Engraving with incised lines, as in steel or copper-plate engraving. In philately the expression "line-engraved" is applied to a stamp

With a texture of lines close together, usually with other lines crossing them wide apart.

Stamps printed in a colony to distinguish them from other issues of the same design, which may have been printed

A letter arriving at an office of delivery without indication of the office of origin.