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Perforation

By PDb Glossary|2010-08-26T22:10:44+10:00May 17, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P|

A series of holes punched between postage stamps in the sheet to ease separation.

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Pacchi Postali (Italian)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:01+10:00May 4, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Parcel Post

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Porteado (Portuguese)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:06+10:00May 3, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Postage Due

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Principauté de Monaco (French)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:58+10:00Mar 24, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Principality of Monaco

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Postzegel (Dutch)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:54+10:00Mar 13, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Postage Stamp

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Porto (Danish)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:06+10:00Mar 13, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Postage

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Private Perforation

By PDb Glossary|2010-08-26T22:10:46+10:00Mar 5, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P|

Unofficial perforation for normally imperforate sheets, made by companies or private individuals and even occasionally local postmasters.

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Pro Juventute (Latin)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:59+10:00Feb 24, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

For the Children

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Post Aérienne (French)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:08+10:00Feb 22, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Air Post

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Posta Aerore (Albanian)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:09+10:00Feb 22, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Air Post

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Posseel (Afrikaans)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:07+10:00Feb 2, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Postage stamp

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Pjonustu Frimerki (Iceland)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:04+10:00Jan 24, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Official Stamp

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Postes Persanes (French)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:10+10:00Jan 23, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Persian Post

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Posta Aerea (Italian)

By PDb Glossary|2011-04-08T15:05:08+10:00Jan 23, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P, Stamp Inscriptions, Stamp Inscriptions - P|

Air Post

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Philately

By PDb Glossary|2010-08-26T22:10:45+10:00Jan 20, 2008|Glossary, Glossary - P|

Coined by M. G. Herpin, the term refers to stamp collecting in the widest sense. Rather obscurely from the Greek:

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