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41. Poached Eggs Poached Eggs – a popular name for special labels the size of and perfed the same as stamps to be dispensed by vending machines ...
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42. Paquebot Paquebot – term adopted by the UPU in the 1897 to describe mail posted on board a ship. This mail is usually postmarked with a cancel including the word “Paquebot” and very often augmented by the words “posted at sea”. It would be accepted a...
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43. Perfins Perfins – Stamps with initials perforated in them. Mostly used by private companies or government departments for security reasons. Government use has been mainly for ‘OHMS’ or ‘OS’ but was also...
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44. Part Perforated Part Perforated – stamps only partly perfed due to some fault in the perforating procedure. Such stamps might have one or more sides partly or completely imperf. The term wo...
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45. Perforation Perforation – A way of making the separation of stamps easier by taking away small pieces of paper from the gutters between the stamps. The size and amount of holes could vary on opposin...
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46. Photogravure Photogravure- a process very similar to the intaglio process, but the designs are etched into the printing cylinders by chemical means. Gravure is a perfect method for printin...
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