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For numerous occasions, people send greeting cards in envelopes that are on colored paper. The worst offender is the red envelope. If warm water is used in soaking the stamp from the paper of the envelope, the red dye can and does bleed into the stamp's paper, leaving it tinted red. This is not a stamp variety but simply a damaged stamp.
In philately, an imprinted stamp is a stamp printed onto a piece of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper. [1] The printing may be flat upon the surface of the paper, or embossed with a raised relief. [2] An imprinted stamp is also known as unadhesive stamp [3] or indicium. [1]
A notable example of this occurred in 1875 in the United States, where all stamps issued to date were reproduced or reprinted with the intention of making them more readily available to collectors. (The actual numbers printed were small, and so most of the reissues are now rarer and more expensive than the originals they resemble.)
A registered envelope for Kenya and Uganda from 1930. A scarcity of postage stamps during WWI in German East Africa was the cause for this handstamped envelope. Any indication that postage is prepaid (see top right handstamp) is what makes the item postal stationery. The fact that this indicium was applied to an envelope makes this a stamped ...
The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equivalent is placed). The FIM is intended for use primarily on preprinted envelopes and postcards and is applied by the company printing the envelopes or postcards, not by the ...
Stamps are most commonly made from paper designed specifically for them, and are printed in sheets, rolls, or small booklets. Less commonly, postage stamps are made of materials other than paper, such as embossed foil (sometimes of gold). Switzerland made a stamp that contained a bit of lace and one of wood. The United States produced one of ...
Stamped paper is an often-foolscap piece of paper which bears an imprinted revenue stamp. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Stamped papers are not a form of postal stationery as although they may contain writing, they are not designed to be used to convey a message.
The stamps are applied very tidily and/or the postmark appears to have been very carefully applied so as not to obscure too much of the stamps. The cover bears a cachet or special design, usually on the left side portion of the envelope. The address consists of a small rubber stamp or adhesive label in the bottom right hand corner of the cover.