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  2. Postage stamp paper - Wikipedia

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    Postage stamp paper is the foundation or substrate of the postage stamp to which the ink for the stamp's design is applied to one side and the adhesive is applied to the other. The paper is not only the foundation of the stamp but it has also been incorporated into the stamp's design, has provided security against fraud and has aided in the ...

  3. North Korean Postal Service - Wikipedia

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    North Korea is under multiple economic sanctions which severely limit what can legally be sent to the country. In the United States, any mail is regulated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and limits mail to first-class letters/postcards and matter for the blind. All merchandise, currency, precious metals, jewellery, chemical/biological ...

  4. Postage stamp design - Wikipedia

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    Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps. Many thousands of designs have been created since a profile bust of Queen Victoria was adopted for the Penny Black in 1840; some designs have been considered very successful, others less so.

  5. Postage stamp design error - Wikipedia

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    Errors on stamps, ed. Yvert, Amiens ; book 1, 1999, ISBN 2-86814-105-6 ; book 2, 2005. Bilingual books (English and French). D.E.G. Irvine and M. Seshold, Errors in Postage Stamp Design Published by National Philatelic Society, 1979, ISBN 0-906291-01-1; More than 3.000 crazy errors on stamps

  6. Tagging (stamp) - Wikipedia

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    In general, fluorescent features can be identified with UV light of a longer wavelength than needed for phosphorescent features (see below). The luminescent substance ("taggant") can be printed over the whole surface of the stamp, the main design, the margins only, single bands or bars or other patterns, or can be added to the paper itself.

  7. Nature of America - Wikipedia

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    Since the punched perforations would distract the visual continuity of the design, [2] the team decided to go for the self-adhesive format with serpentine die cutting for the individual stamps. [2] Each sheet consisted of a large panoramic image of a U.S. geographical region , [ 8 ] with the region's flora and fauna clearly visible.

  8. Self-adhesive stamp - Wikipedia

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    A self-adhesive stamp is a postage stamp with a pressure-sensitive adhesive that does not require moistening in order to adhere to paper. They are usually issued on a removable backing paper. Stamp collectors have criticized the format, because the rubber-based adhesive used tends to yellow the stamps

  9. Hawaiian Missionaries (stamps) - Wikipedia

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    The stamps went on sale October 1, 1851, in three denominations covering three rates: the 2-cent stamp was for newspapers going to the US, the 5-cent value was for regular mail to the US, and the 13-cent value was for mail to the US East Coast, combining the 5 cents of Hawaiian postage, a 2-cent ship fee, and 6 cents to cover the transcontinental US rate.

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