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Studies of Stamp Printing Papers: Incorporating coloured threads or fibres. London: The Author, 1990; Huska, Andrew. The Stamp Collectors' Guide to Paper Used for Postage Stamps: illustrated with actual stamps or paper. Philadelphia: Andrew Huska, 1938 32p. Repeta, Louis E. Watermarks In Postage Stamp Paper: a comprehensive look at a key stamp ...
Stamp of Lithuania; 1990; counter sheet with the definitive stamp in the angel-drawing (First Angel Issue), imperforate; without gum; single stamp size 21 x 32 mm. A sheet of stamps or press sheet is a unit of stamps as printed, usually on large sheets of paper based on the size of the printing plate, that are separated into panes that are sold ...
Paper size refers to standardized dimensions for sheets of paper used globally in stationery, printing, and technical drawing. Most countries adhere to the ISO 216 standard, which includes the widely recognized A series (including A4 paper ), defined by a consistent aspect ratio of √2.
The "perforation gauge" of a stamp specifies the number of perforation holes that appear in a two-centimeter span along its edge. [1] The finest gauge ever used is 18 on stamps of the Malay States in the early 1950s, and the coarsest is 2, seen on the 1891 stamps of Bhopal. Modern stamp perforations tend to range from 11 to 14.
Visualization with paper sizes in formats A0 to A8, exhibited at the science museum CosmoCaixa Barcelona An A4 paper sheet folded into two A5 size pages. ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America.
A pair of stamps that straddles the join is known as a paste-up pair. U.S. Paste-up pair, 1912 In the mid-1920s, rotary presses came into use for printing stamps which used long rolls of paper rather than individual sheets, and this made the paste-up phase unnecessary, as sheets of any length could be produced by the press and merely needed to ...
A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1 ⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams.
The most popular sizes comprise between 4 and 32 double-sided pages with each page interleaved with a glassine, or clear, sheet to prevent stamps on adjacent pages from touching. As with most stationery, most manufacturers refer to the number of sides in a stockbook and not to the number of pages, so stockbook advertised as a "16-page stockbook ...