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2. Grill (philately) - Wikipedia

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   "G" grill on a stamp of the 1869 issue. A grill on a postage stamp is an embossed pattern of small indentations intended to discourage postage stamp reuse.Used in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s, they were designed to allow the ink of the cancellation to be absorbed more readily by the fibres of the stamp paper, making it harder to wash off the cancellation.

3. Seal (emblem) - Wikipedia

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   These are applied to all letters, invoices issued, and similar documents. In Europe these are today plastic self-inking stamps. Notaries also still use seals on a daily basis. At least in Britain, each registered notary has an individual personal seal, registered with the authorities, which includes his or her name and a pictorial emblem, often ...

4. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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   A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...

5. Medieval letter tile - Wikipedia

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   Medieval letter tiles are one-letter ceramic tiles that were employed in monasteries and churches of the late Middle Ages for the creation of Christian inscriptions on floors and walls. They were created by pressing stamps bearing a reverse image into soft clay , which was then baked hard, and they were used to form words by assembling single ...

6. Cylinder seal - Wikipedia

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   Most Mesopotamian cylinder seals form an image using depressions in the cylinder surface (see lead photo above) to make bumps on the impression and are used primarily on wet clay; but some cylinder seals (sometimes called roller stamps) print images using ink or similar using raised areas on the cylinder (such as the San Andrés cylinder seal ...

7. Philatelic cover - Wikipedia

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   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.