This is a list of philatelic topics.

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- Acknowledgement of receipt - Aerogram - Aerophilately - Affixing machine - Airmail - Airmail etiquette - Approval - Arrow block - Auction - Auction catalog Acknowledgement of receipt (other terms include avis de réception, advice of delivery, Rückschein, ricevuto di ritorno, and many others; the standard abbreviations are AR and AD) is a postal service which returns to the sender of a letter (usually registered; in the case of a parcel, it may... GB Christmas Aerogram (date?) An aerogram is a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. ... Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of airmail. ... Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. ... An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is an adhesive label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. ... This article or section should include material from Majority Choice Approval Approval voting is a voting system used for elections, in which each voter can vote for as many or as few candidates as the voter chooses. ... In philately, a block is a group of postage stamps still attached to each other. ... An auctioneer and her assistants scan the crowd for bidders An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. ... An auction catalog is a catalog that lists items to be sold at an auction. ...

B

- Balloon mail - Bicycle mail - Bisect - Bogus postal marking issue - Bogus stamp issue - Booklet - British Guiana 1c magenta - Bulk mail This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A Bisect is a genuine postal item like an original envelope, a wrapper or a postcard (or a fragment) showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. ... A postage stamp booklet is a set of one or more small panes of postage stamps, usually totalling about 10-20 stamps, folded over and placed in a cardboard cover. ... British Guiana 1¢ magenta The British Guiana 1¢ magenta is among the rarest of all postage stamps. ... United States Postal Service defines bulk mail broadly as quantities of mail prepared for mailing at reduced postage rates. ...

C

- Cachet - Camel mail - Cancel - Cancellation - Cancelled to order - Caribou mail - Carrier's stamp - Censored mail - Center line block - Certified mail - Charity stamp - chinese new year stamps - Christmas seal - Cigarette tax stamp - Cinderella stamp - Circular delivery mail - Classic stamp - Coil - Color guide - Color trial - Combination cover - Commemorative issue - Commemorative stamp - Concentration camp mail - Consular fee stamp - Control mark - Counterfeit - Courier mail - Cover - Crash cover - Crown agent - Cut square In philately, a cachet is a picture or design, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage on the envelope, postcard, postal card or other cover, that can be purely decorative, or commemorative. ... The term cancel has the following meanings: 1. ... A machine cancellation On mail, a cancellation (or cancel for short) is a postal marking applied to a postage stamp or postal stationery indicating that the item has been used. ... A cancelled to order (CTO) postage stamp is one that has had its cancellation applied by the issuing postal administration before being sold to stamp collectors or dealers. ... In philately, a block is a group of postage stamps still attached to each other. ... A charity label or charity stamp is an adhesive label usually resembling a postage stamp, sold by charities to raise funds. ... Chinese New Year Stamps they are issued around January and February. ... The US Christmas seal of 1925 features holly and mistletoe behind the candles. ... A cinderella stamp is a label similar to a postage stamp which may or may not be issued by a post office. ... A classic stamp is a general term for a postage stamp issued before 1900. ... A coil is a series of loops. ... The colors of postage stamps are at once obvious, and among the most difficult areas of philately. ... The Common Man featured in a commemorative golden postage stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th anniversary of the Times of India - 1988 A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person. ... The Common Man featured in a commemorative golden postage stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th anniversary of the Times of India - 1988 A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person. ... A counterfeit is an imitation that is made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins. ... Cover may mean: Cover (container), a lid Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of acontract for the receipt of goods. ... A crash cover, also known as an air accident cover or interrupted flight cover, is a cover (envelope) that has been recovered from an airplane or airship crash or other accident. ... In philately, a cut square is a rectangular or square piece cut from postal stationery and including the items imprint design. ...

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- Damaged mail - Dead letter mail - Definitive issue - Definitive series - Delayed mail - Design error - Die proof - Diplomatic pouch mail - Dirigible mail - Disinfected mail - Dog mail - Dogsled mail - Dummy stamp - Dundee Dead Letter Mail (also known as a Dead Letter) is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee, usually due to lack of compliance with postal regulations. ... A definitive postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully. ... A definitive postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully. ... A postage stamp design error is a mistake made during the design phase of the postage stamp production process. ... Dogsled mail or dog team mail is mail carried by dogsled. ... The Royal Burgh of Dundee (Dùn Dèagh in Gaelic) is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001), situated on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. ...

E

- Earliest known use (EKU) - Embossing - Engraver's mark - Engraving - Entire - Envelope - Errors and varieties - Errors, freaks, and oddities (EFO) - Essay - Expert - Expertization - Express company - Express mail First Day Cover for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, issued 22nd July 1981. ... Embossing is the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... In philately, see Cover. ... An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat, planar material such as paper or cardboard, designed to contain a flat object such as a letter. ... In philately, errors, freaks, and oddities or EFO is a blanket term referring to all the kinds of things that can go wrong when producing postage stamps. ... An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of knowledge, technique, or skill whose judgment is accorded authority and status by the public or their peers. ... Expertization is the process of authentication of an object, usually of a sort that is collected, by an individual expert or a committee of experts. ... Express mail is an expedited type of courier service delivering non-freight shipments to destinations faster than the regular service provided by public postal carriers. ...

F

- Famous stamp - Fancy cancel - Favor cancel - Favor sheet - Fee paid mail - Field post office - First day ceremony - First day cover - First day of issue - First flight - First issue - Fiscal cancellation - Fiscal issue - Flat plate press - Floor sweepings - Forerunner - Forgery - Forwarding agent - Fractional currency - Franchise stamp - Franking privilege - Free frank - Fumigated mail US 2-cent stamp of 1870, cancelled with a leaf shape in blue ink A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design. ... First Day Cover for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, issued 22nd July 1981. ... First Day Cover for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, issued 22nd July 1981. ... For the ancient alien race in the Halo series, see Forerunners. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... Fractional Currency notes were issued in the United States from August 21, 1862 through February 15, 1876. ... The franking privilege is a perk which grants an elected official the right to send mail through the postal system for free, often simply by signing his or her name where the postage stamp would normally be placed. ...

G

- Graphite line - Grill - Guide line - Guide line pair - Gum A propane gas grill with a custom-built aluminium stand partly submerged in snow in Akureyri, Iceland. ... A number of different things are called gum: Gums, or gingiva - the soft tissue partly covering teeth Chewing gum Bubblegum Vegetable gums, natural gums: Guar gum Gum arabic Xanthan gum Postage stamp gum Gum Springs, Arkansas, a town Trees: Gum tree (Eucalyptus; Australia and cultivated in other warm areas) Black...

H

- Handstruck stamp - Health stamp - Highway post office - History of philately - Hotel post - Hovercraft mail

I

- Illustration law - Imitation - Imperforate - Imprint - Imprint block - Ink - Inscription - Inscription block - Institutional collection - Insured mail - International mail - International reply coupon - Inverted Jenny - Inverted Swan - Investment - Irradiated mail Imitation is an advanced animal behavior whereby an individual observes anothers behavior and replicates it itself. ... For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. ... In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... In philately, a block is a group of postage stamps still attached to each other. ... An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. ... Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental. ... An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be used to post a standard 20 gram letter anywhere in the world. ... The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp of 1918 in which the airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down. ... The Inverted Swan, a 4-pence blue postage stamp issued in 1855 by Western Australia, is the worlds first invert error (technically a frame invert). In 1854, Western Australia issued its first stamps, featuring the colonys symbol, the Black Swan, as did all WA stamps until 1902. ... Investment or investing is a term with several closely-related meanings in finance and economics. ... Irradiated mail is mail that has been deliberately exposed to radiation, typically in an effort to disinfect it. ...

J

- James Chalmers - Joint issue - Joint line - Joint line pair James Chalmers was a native of Arbroath in Scotland who moved to Dundee and established himself there as a bookseller, printer and publisher, eventually serving as a Town Councillor and becoming Convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades. ... A joint issue is the release of stamps or postal stationery by two or more countries to commemorate the same topic, event or person of relevance to both countries. ... In philately, a line pair is a coil pair of postage stamps bearing an inked line between the two stamps. ...

K

- Killer The word killer has several meanings: A killer is a person, animal, object, plant (&c. ...

L

- Label - Late fee stamp - Letter carrier - Letterpress - Letter sheet - Line pair - Linn's Stamp News - List of entities that have issued postage stamps - List of philatelic topics (deliberate self-link) - List of philatelists - List of postage stamps - List of stamp collectors - List of stamp dealers - Lithography - Local post - Luminescent issue A label is any kind of tag attached with adhesive to something so as to identify the object or its contents. ... A Melbourne postie riding a walkthrough A mail carrier, post carrier, or postman (sometimes known as a mailman or letter carrier in North America and a postie in Australia and the UK) is an employee of the post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcels (post) to residences... Letterpress printing is the oldest printing technique, in which a raised surface is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse. ... In philately, a line pair is a coil pair of postage stamps bearing an inked line between the two stamps. ... Linns Stamp News is the largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors, boasting a paid circulation of nearly 45,000 (as of 2003). ... This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since 1840. ... This is a list of philatelists, persons notable for their contributions to philately. ... This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way. ... This is a list of philatelists, persons notable for their contributions to philately. ... Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ... A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route. ...

M

- Mail fraud - Mail robbery - Mailman - Marginal marking - Marine insurance stamp - Maritime mail - Maximum card - Metered mail - Michel catalog - Military mail - Miniature sheet - Minipack - Mixed franking - Mobile post office - Money order - Mr Zip This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A USPS van on Cambridge Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. A mail carrier is an employee of the post office who delivers mail to a residence or business. ... Cover of the 1996 Europa West volume The Michel catalog (MICHEL-Briefmarken-Katalog) is the largest and best-known stamp catalog in the German-speaking world. ... An army post office is a special military system to integrate the civil postal system to that of the military. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In philately, a mixed franking is an occurrence of the postage stamps of more than one country or issuing entity occur on a single cover. ... A money order is a type of check intended to provide a safe alternative to sending cash (in the mail). ...

N

- Naval cover - Naval mail - New issue - Newspaper stamp - Newspaper wrapper Cacheted cover postmarked on the battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) during Fleet Week, August 1933. ... A newspaper stamp is a special type of postage stamp used to handle the mailing of newspapers and other periodicals. ...

O

- Occupation stamp - Offices abroad - Official mail - Offset printing - Overprint Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate (or offset) first to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. ... An overprint is the addition of text (and sometimes graphics) to the face of a postage stamp after it has been printed. ...

P

- Packet letter - Packet mark - Paper - Paquebot - Parcel post - Paste-up pair - Penalty mail - Pen cancel - Penny post - Perfin - Perforation - Permit mail - Phantom issue - Philatelic agency - Philatelic cover - Philatelic literature - Philately - Picture post card - Pigeon mail - Pillar box - Plate block - Plate marking - Plate number coil - Plate - Plating - Plebiscite issue - Pneumatic mail - Polar mail - Postage due - Postage stamp booklet - Postage stamp color - Postage stamp reuse - Postage stamp separation - Postal card - Postal convention - Postal history - Postal laws and regulations - Postal marking - Postal route - Postal savings - Postal slogan - Postal stationery - Postal tax - Postal treaty - Postal union - Postcard - Post office - Post road - Pre-adhesive cover - Precancel - Presentation album - Presentation book - Price list - Printing - Prisoner-of-war mail - Private cancellation - Private carrier - Private overprint - Private post - Proof - Provisional This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Parcel post is a type of shipping. ... A pen cancellation on the cover of a letter of Rechnung, dated Jan 17, 1858. ... The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny. ... In the context of postage stamps, perfin is a contraction of perforated initials. Organizations would use a perforator to create perforations forming letters or designs in postage stamps with the purpose of preventing pilferage. ... A perforation is a hole made by puncturing a surface. ... Permit mail is anything sent through the postal service where postage is paid by a post office issued permit. ... A philatelic cover is a cover sent through the mails for the purpose of creating a collectible item. ... Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history. ... Close examination of the Penny Red, left, reveals a 148 in the margin, indicating that it was printed with plate #148. ... The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Dove (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. ... In the UK and the British Commonwealth, a pillar box is a free-standing box where post is deposited to be collected by the Royal Mail and forwarded to the adressee. ... A used plate block of the US newspaper boy stamp of 1952 A plate block, or plate-number block is a block of postage stamps that includes the part of the sheet margin with the serial number of the printing plate(s) used to print the stamps. ... A plate number coil (PNC) is a United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it. ... Plate has several meanings: A plate electrode in a vacuum tube. ... This article is about the industrial process. ... Pneumatic tubes or capsule pipelines are systems of air-driven containers in a network of tubes used for transporting physical objects. ... Postage due is the term used for mail sent with insufficient postage. ... A postage stamp booklet is a set of one or more small panes of postage stamps, usually totalling about 10-20 stamps, folded over and placed in a cardboard cover. ... The colors of postage stamps are at once obvious, and among the most difficult areas of philately. ... In the earlier days of the postage stamp, postal officials worried much about the problem of postage stamp reuse, and invented a number of schemes to mark or deface the stamps. ... This pair of coil stamps clearly shows the pattern of perforation holes; also, on the left side of the pair, the stamp was torn, while on the right the perforations were cut with scissors or knife. ... For the computer diagnostic tool, see Postcard (computing). ... For a time after the Anschluss in 1938, letters from Austria to Germany were required to add German stamps, resulting in a mixed franking. ... A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. ... Postal savings systems were offered by many nations post offices to provide depositors who did not have access to banks a safe, convenient method to save money and to promote saving among the poor. ... Postal stationery: Postcard of 1895 A piece of postal stationery is an envelope, letter sheet, or postal card with an amount of postage preprinted on it, at the postcard rate for postcards, and (usually) at the domestic first-class rate for letter sheets and envelopes. ... A sample of various postcards. ... Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ... US 2c stamp of 1938 with precancel A precanceled stamp, or precancel for short, is a postage stamp that has been cancelled before being affixed to mail. ... The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Printing is an industrial process for production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Private cancellations are cancellations of postage stamps, or, in some cases, artistamps, applied by other than a government or other official stamp-issuing entity. ... Private overprints are overprints (pictures, text, or a combination of the two), rubberstamped or applied by some other method, to postage stamps (or, occasionally, postal stationary) used by some person or entity other than a government or other official stamp-issuing entity. ... Look up Proof on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word proof can mean: Shit and wanker originally, a test assessing the validity or quality of something. ...

R

- Railroad post office - Railway mail - Rare issue - Ration stamp - Red Cross label - Registered mail - Regummed stamp - Reissue - Reprint - Remainder - Reperforation - Reply card - Reply coupon - Revenue cancellation - Revenue stamp - Rocket mail - Rotary press - Rouletting - Rowland Hill Registered mail sent from Baghdad to San Francisco in August 1945 Registered items of mail are letters which have their details recorded in a register to enable their location to be tracked. ... In mathematics, the result of the division of two integers usually cannot be expressed with an integer quotient, unless a remainder —an amount left over— is also acknowledged. ... A revenue stamp, or fiscal stamp is a type of adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on various items. ... A Regulus cruise missile was used for one attempt to deliver mail. ... A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the impressions are curved around a wheel so that the printing can be done on long continuous rolls of paper, cardboard, plastic, or a large number of other substrates. ... For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. ... This article is about the postal service pioneer. ...

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- Savings issue - Scott catalog - Se-tenant - Semi-official - Semi-postal - Separation - Ship mail - Siege mail - Slogan cancellation - Socked on the nose (SON) - Souvenir card - Souvenir sheet - Space cover - Space mail - Special delivery - Special handling - Specimen stamp - Stanley Gibbons - Stamp album - Stamp catalog - Stamp collecting - Stamp condition - Stamp design - Stamp exhibition - Stamp finder - Stamp gum - Stamp hinge - Stamp mounting - Stamp separation - Steamship issue - Streetcar mail - Strike mail - Study circle - Submarine mail - Surcharge Covers of the 2002 edition featured art on stamps. ... Separation may refer to a several different subjects: In chemistry, separation refers to the separation process. ... King George V socked on the nose in 1928 Socked on the nose (SON), in philately, refers to a cancellation in which the killer, or, if the postmark does not have a separate killer, the (typically circular) postmark itself, is right in the middle of the stamp. ... Stanley Gibbons Ltd is a London, UK based company specialising in trading postage stamps and related products. ... A stamp album is a book, often loose-leafed (to allow for expansion), in which a collection of postage stamps may be stored and displayed. ... Cover of the 1996 Michel Catalog volume covering Europa West A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types. ... Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as covers (envelopes or packages with stamps on them). ... This stamp of the Falkland Islands is a fine example of modern stamp design: minimal text, intense color, striking subject clearly represented. ... In philately, gum is the substance applied to the back of a postage stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter or other mailed item. ... Stamp hinges are small, folded, rectangular pieces of paper coated with a mild gum, used to hold postage stamps onto the pages of a stamp album. ... For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. ... A study circle is a small group of people who meet multiple times to discuss an issue. ... An overprint is the addition of text (and sometimes graphics) to the face of a postage stamp after it has been printed. ...

T

- Tagging - Tax stamp - Telegraph stamp - Test stamp - Tete-beche - Thematic collecting - Tin Can Mail - Topical collecting - Training stamp - Transatlantic mail - Transoceanic mail - Treaty port - Treskilling Yellow Tagging is a term used in a number of contexts for different purposes, mostly referring to adding a tag of some form. ... Topical or thematic stamp collecting is the practice of collecting postage stamps relating to a particular subject or concept. ... Topical or thematic stamp collecting is the practice of collecting postage stamps relating to a particular subject or concept. ... A training stamp is a postage stamp or stamp-like label used in training postal workers how to cancel postage stamps. ... Nanking, August 29, 1842, Peace Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China The Treaty of Nanking (南京條約) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China. ... The Treskilling yellow The Treskilling Yellow, or 3 skilling banco error of color, is a postage stamp of Sweden, and as of 2004 the most valuable stamp in the world. ...

U

- Unaccepted design - Undeliverable mail - Undesirable issue - Universal Postal Union - Untagged - Used abroad Dead Letter Mail (also known as a Dead Letter) is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee, usually due to lack of compliance with postal regulations. ... The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is a international organization that coordinates postal policies between member nations, and hence the world-wide postal system. ...

V

- Valentine cover - Variety - Varnish bars - Vending machine - View card In the earlier days of the postage stamp, postal officials worried much about the problem of postage stamp reuse, and invented a number of schemes to mark or deface the stamps. ... A vending machine is a machine that dispenses merchandise when a customer deposits money, validated by a currency detector, sufficient to purchase the desired item (as opposed to a shop, where the presence of personnel is required for every purchase). ...

W

- Want list - War cover - War issue - War mail - War savings issue - War tax - Watermark - Wrapper - Wreck cover In stamp collecting, a want list is simply a list of postage stamps that the collector is seeking to acquire. ... A war tax stamp is a type of postage stamp added to an envelope in addition to regular postage. ... This Crown & CA (for Crown Agent) watermark was standard for postage stamps of the British colonies from the 1880s to the 1920s. ... In computer science, a wrapper is a piece of code which is combined with another piece of code to determine how that code is executed. ...

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- Yvert catalog Yvert et Tellier is a French philatelic publisher. ...

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- Zeppelin mail - Zip block Cover sent from Chemnitz, Germany to Sausalito, California on the first North American flight of the Hindenburg, 6-9 May 1936. ... In philately, a block is a group of postage stamps still attached to each other. ...