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Stamp impression kinds: summary of the different intended styls of a stamp impression

With stamp impression: postal stationery issued with stamp impression as intended style

Without stamp impression: postal stationery issued without stamp impression as intended style. A face value must be given e. g. as text

Provisional stamp impression: printing sheet with provisional stamp impression

Official stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression ordered by a public postal administatione

Private stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression ordered by a private person or company (e. g. private postage stamp or forgery)

Country stamp impression: postal stationery with stamp impression issued for the whole area of a postal administration

Region stamp impression: postal stationery with stamp impression issued for a region (province stamp impression, zone stamp impression)

Local stamp impression: postal stationery with stamp impression issued for a local area e. g. city (postmaster stamp impression, town stamp impression)

Positive stamp impression: stamp impression with coloured stamp impression on colourless surface

Negative stamp impression: stamp impression with colourless stamp impression on coloured surface

Stamp impression with frame: stamp impression surrounded by an enclosing line as intended style

Stamp impression without frame: stamp impression not surrounded by an enclosing line as intended style

Stamp impression colour: colour name a stamp impression is made off (e. g. light brown)

Type-set stamp impression: stamp impression put together with type material (e. g. letters and ornamental pieces)

Stamp impression position: position of a stamp impression on a postal stationery (e. g. left top)

Vertical stamp impression: printing sheet with vertical stamp impression as intended style

Horizontal stamp impression: printing sheet with horizontal stamp impression as intended style

Single stamp impression: printing sheet with once stamp impression as intended style

Postal stationery with one stamp impression: printing sheet with one stamp impression as intended style

Postal stationery with two stamp impression: printing sheet with two stamp impressions as intended style

postal stationery with two stamp impressions as se-tenant

Postal stationery with three stamp impression: printing sheet with three stamp impressions as intended style

Postal stationery with four stamp impression: printing sheet with four stamp impressions as intended style

Monochrome stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression in one colour as intended style

postal stationery with three the same monochrome stamp impression

Multicolour stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression in multiple colours as intended style

Monolingual stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression in one language as intended style

Multilingual stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression in multiple languages as intended style

Front stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression on front as intended style

Back stamp impression: printing sheet with stamp impression on reverse as intended style

Postal stationery cut to shape: stamp impession cut out of a postal stationery (e.g. as franking for a postal shipment)

Blind perforation: philatelic term for a printed perforation around a stamp impres-sion

Postal stationery with new stamp impression: postal stationery that was provided with a new stamp impression as intended style; at the same time the existing stamp impression was canceled