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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.
Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
The Stamp Collector is a children's picture book (recommended for ages 8 and up) by Jennifer Lanthier and François Thisdale. It was published in 2012 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. [1] A French language edition, Le Collectionneur de Timbres, was released in October, 2013. [2] The theme of the book is freedom of expression.
The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill, or simply "Z-Grill", is a 1-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in February 1868 depicting Benjamin Franklin.While stamps of this design were the common 1-cent stamps of the 1860s, the Z-Grill is distinguished by having the so-called "Z" variety of a grill pressed into the stamp, creating tiny indentations in the paper.
Teddy and his Friends topical stamp display at London 2022 International Stamp Exhibition This 2 1 ⁄ 2 real value from the 1901 Nyassa Company stamp issue was the first stamp ever printed to feature a giraffe. Some topics include: Art Deco stamps; Bicycles on stamps; Birds on stamps; Chemistry on stamps; Dinosaurs on stamps; Fish on stamps ...
Postage stamps that come in strips with the individual stamps arranged side by side or one above the other and rolled into a coil for sale at the post office are referred to as coil stamps. The coil configuration made the repeated removal of individual stamps easier for the clerks and others who dealt with mass mailings on a daily basis.
Also in 1854 a "rotary process" was patented by William Bemrose and Henry Howe Bemrose.The Bemrose machine was designed as a rouletting machine. As such, it proved impracticable for stamp separation but in 1856 was successfully converted to a perforating machine by George C. Howard of Toppan Carpenter, stamp printers for the American Government. [3]
Canoe, 5 cents, plate number S11. The Transportation coils series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service between 1981 and 1995. Officially dubbed the "Transportation Issue" or "Transportation Series", they have come to be called the "transportation coils" because all of the denominations were issued in coil stamp format. [1]