| Term |
Meaning |
| Label |
Any stamplike adhesive that
is not a postage stamp or revenue stamp. |
| Laid paper |
One of the two basic types
of paper used in stamp printing. Laid paper is
distinguished from wove paper by the presence
of thin, parallel lines visible when the paper
is held to light. The lines are usually a few
millimeters apart. See also Batonne. |
| Letterpress |
Printing done directly from
the inked, raised surface of the printing
plate or otherwise the process of printing
from raised type. |
| Line engraving |
Printing done from an
intaglio plate produced from a hand-engraved
die and transfer roll rather than by
photographic or chemical means. See also
Gravure. |
| Line pair |
A pair of coil stamps with a
printed line between them. Stamps produced on
a flatbed press have a line from the guideline
between panes. Stamps produced on a rotary
press have a joint line from the space where
ink collects between the sections of curved
rotary plates. |
| Line perforation |
The simplest form of
perforation in which rows of stamps are
punched in single line, the sheets then being
turned sideways on to the perforator and the
process repeated row by row. Line-perforation
stamps can usually be identified by the fact
that the intersecting holes at the corners of
the stamps are never - or very rarely -
precisely matched.
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