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| Term |
Meaning |
| T |
Abbreviation for the French
"Taxe.'' Handstamped on a stamp, the T indicates
the stamp's use as a postage due. Handstamped on a
cover, it indicates that postage due has been charged.
Several countries have used regular stamps with a
perforated initial T as postage dues. |
| Tagging |
Phosphor material on stamps
used to activate automatic mail-handling equipment.
This may be lines, bars, letters, part of the design
area or the entire stamp surface. The tagging may also
permeate the stamp paper. Some stamps are issued both
with and without tagging. Catalogs describe them as
tagged or untagged. |
| Teeth |
The protruding points along
the outer edge of a perforated postage stamp when it
has been removed from the pane. |
| Telegraph stamp |
Label used for the
prepayment of telegraph fees. Telegraph stamps
resemble postage stamps. |
| Tete-beche |
A French idiom (literally
"head-spade") with the philatelic meaning of
a pair of stamps in which one is upside-down in
relation to the other. This arrangement sometimes
occurred accidentally, as a result of a cliché being
inserted in a forme upside down. In modern times,
however, it occurs in the printing of sheets of stamps
in small panes for booklets, adjoining panes being
upside down in relation to each other to facilitate
separation. Occasionally uncut panes come on to the
market and stamps from neighbouring rows form
tete-beche pairs.
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