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581. Dry Print Dry Print – a stamp or overprint which shows little or no ink due to an inking deficiency in the printing process. Rob Browning
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582. Aniline Aniline – stamps printed with ink containing aniline. These are generally brighter than other inks and the ink suffused on the surface and showing through the back, it’s a term also used to desc...
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583. Traveling Post Office Traveling Post Office (TPO) – this is found in a postmark to indicate that the item was sorted and cancelled on a traveling sorting office such as a train. Rob Browning
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584. Transit Marks Transit Marks – postmarks which a letter or other postal item collects on its journey through the post charting its progress. These marks could indicate a special routing or highlight delays and would also include redirection marks and marks o...
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585. 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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586. 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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587. Nibbed Perf Nibbed Perf – this describes a perforation tooth which has been pulled and then looks like the end of a pen nib with a slight split or indentation at the tip. (See also short per...
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588. Machine Cancel Machine Cancel – machine made cancel normally comprising of two parts, the postmark & date tied to a slogan, flag, wavy lines, bars etc – also called a duplex cancel Rob ...
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589. Short Perf Short Perf(s) – this is where one or more of the perforation teeth on a stamp are missing, or shorter than the remaining teeth. This could have occurred when the stamp was separated from the sheet due to poor perforation or due to carelessnes...
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590. Rough Perf Rough Perf – perforations, that due to wear & tear or poor alignment of the perforating pins, the paper which the perforator should cut out remains partly joined to the stamp,...
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