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Opened up 1628 lettersheet showing folds, address and seal, with letter being written on the obverse. In philatelic terminology a letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is a sheet of paper that can be folded, usually sealed (most often with sealing wax in the 18th and 19th centuries), and mailed without the use of an envelope, or it can also be a similar item of postal stationery issued by a ...
1620 Venetian prepaid letter sheet. Postal stationery has been in use since at least 1608 with folded letters bearing the coat of arms Venice. Other early examples include British newspaper stamps that were first issued in 1712, 25-centime letter sheets that were issued in 1790 by the government of Luxembourg, and Australian postal stationery that predated more well known issues like the ...
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 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 at post offices. Where more than one pane is on a printed sheet they are arranged in a table-like arrangement. [ 1 ]
The word "philately" is the English transliteration of the French "philatélie", coined by Georges Herpin in 1864. [3]Herpin stated that stamps had been collected and studied for the previous six or seven years and a better name was required for the new hobby than timbromanie (roughly "stamp mania"), which was disliked. [4]
C. Cachet; Cancellation (mail) Cancelled-to-order; Carrier's stamp; Catcher pouch; Centro de hoja; Chalky paper; Charity label; Christmas seals; Christmas stamp
Leaving open letters (like not closing an 'O') typically means that you are expressive, social and talkative. Writing a closed letter 'O' means that you are a private person and an introvert.
The design was to write on the inside or to enclose a letter written on ordinary paper. The Mulready letter sheet was fundamentally akin to the present-day aerogram. Pre-gummed envelopes as we know them today did not exist. The diamond-shaped sheet and the geometrically more complex short-arm cross-shaped sheet remain essentially the staple ...