A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the...
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adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847, in the denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of stamps made...
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states, some of which produced stamps for use within their respective dominions, while British Indian postage stamps were required for sending mail beyond...
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appeared on U.S. postage stamps since the mid-19th century. The United States Post Office Department released its first two postage stamps in 1847, featuring...
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For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. Methods of separation include: perforation:...
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a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps. These have been produced by a variety of techniques including line...
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Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps. Many thousands of designs have been created since a profile bust...
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A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or...
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Philately (redirect from Stamps and Stamp Collecting)
fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products...
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Postage stamp reuse is the technique of fraudulently reusing postage stamps from sent mail to avoid paying the cost of postage. A postage stamp is a small...
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