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Glossary |
| No |
Name |
Category |
Languange |
Description |
| 1 |
G. Despatch Carter's |
0 |
|
United States local post, Philadelphia, Pa., 1849-51. |
| 2 |
Gap |
0 |
|
Unprinted space between the ends of two printed precancel overprints. |
| 3 |
Garbage Card |
0 |
|
Nickname given to the full-face portrait of the McKinley postal card that was supposedly destroyed. One box of 500 was sold by post office imprinted with name of a garbage firm. |
| 4 |
Gauge |
0 |
|
Number of perforation holes in a length of 20 mm (in the case of most definitives, the number of teeth counted across from left to right). |
| 5 |
General Collection |
0 |
|
A collection of the entire world rather than a specialized collection of one or more countries or topics. |
| 6 |
General Issue |
0 |
|
Stamps that are issued for ordinary postage use, rather than for air mail, postage due, etc. |
| 7 |
Gepruft |
0 |
Ger. |
Censored |
| 8 |
German States |
0 |
|
Germany consisted of large number of states prior to the formation of the German Empire in 1871. |
| 9 |
Germania |
0 |
|
Symbolic figure of the German Empire from a portrait of Anna von Stratz-Fuhring, a Wagnerian opera star. |
| 10 |
Ghost |
0 |
|
A light double printing apart from the normal inked stamp impression caused by misregistration and incorrect printing procedures. A "ghost" can also be caused by phosphor inking picking up a design. |
| 11 |
Gibbons Catalogue Number |
0 |
|
Number assigned to a philatelic item by Stanley Gibbons editors according to that publisher's criteria for such assignment. |
| 12 |
Giori |
0 |
|
Ink delivery system allowing a single plate to print up to three colors. |
| 13 |
Gladbach Berg |
0 |
|
Local, Germany, 1918-23. |
| 14 |
Glassine |
0 |
|
A semi-transparent paper used to make envelopes for stamp and cover storage; also used for album interleaving. |
| 15 |
Glazed Gum |
0 |
English |
Original gum in altered state due to its softening and reforming while in a plastic mount. |
| 16 |
Glazed Paper |
0 |
English |
Without any special coating but with a high gloss, sometimes confused with enamel-surfaced paper. |
| 17 |
Glider Mail |
0 |
English |
Transmission of mails by air glider. |
| 18 |
Global Priority Mail |
0 |
English |
A category of international mail that provides fast service at attractive rates to 27 countries. |
| 19 |
Goldbeater's Paper |
0 |
|
A fragile onionskin paper. |
| 20 |
Goldbeater's Skin |
0 |
English |
A tough, transparent paper. |
| 21 |
Good |
0 |
English |
The margins or perforations are well into the design, and the stamp usually is accompanied by other faults. |
| 22 |
Gooddall Proofs |
0 |
|
Proofs ordered printed by A. G. Goodall, president of the American bank note Co. in 1847 and 1879 of official and newspaper stamps. |
| 23 |
Grade |
0 |
English |
The ranking of a stamp based on centering for mint stamps; centering and cancellation for used stamps. |
| 24 |
Grain Direction |
0 |
|
Direction in which most of the paper fibers are aligned. Paper tears more readily with the grain than against it. Cutting a small rectangle piece from a page and wetting it will cause the paper to curl in the grain direction. |
| 25 |
Granite |
0 |
|
Paper containing countless very short hairs (fibres) of colour(s) contrasting with the main mat of the paper as a security against forgery. |
| 26 |
Granite Paper |
0 |
English |
Paper containing visible fibers. |
| 27 |
Graphite Line |
0 |
English |
Vertical graphite lines printed in black (beneath the gum) of certain British stamps in 1957 for use with automatic sorting machines. |
| 28 |
Graphite lines |
0 |
|
Adhesive stamp bearing one or two vertical lines of black electrically conductive graphite on the back, under the gum. |
| 29 |
Graver |
0 |
|
A tool with a sharp hardened point used by an engraver to cut lines into a steel block. |
| 30 |
Gravure |
0 |
English |
Also known as photogravure. |
| 31 |
Greeting Stamp |
0 |
English |
Special stamps conveying Christmas, New Year or Birthday Greetings. |
| 32 |
Grid Cancellation |
0 |
English |
A cancellation usually consisting of crisscrossed lines, often within an oval. |
| 33 |
Gridiron Cancellation |
0 |
|
Typically, an early United States cancel consisting of circles enclosing parallel lines. |
| 34 |
Grill |
0 |
English |
A pattern of small, square pyramids in parallel rows impressed or embossed on the stamp to break paper fibers, allowing cancellation ink to soak in and preventing washing and reuse. |
| 35 |
Grille |
0 |
English |
A security device in the form of small square dots embossed on certain stamps of the United States, Peru, etc., arranged in a certain pattern, breaking the paper fibres. This allows the ink of the postmark to soak in deeply and makes it impossible to clean a stamp for re-use. |
| 36 |
Grilled Gum |
0 |
English |
When applying gum, a light grilling process is sometimes used to prevent curling. This resembles a faint grill of vertical and horizontal ribs covering the entire back of the stamp. |
| 37 |
Gripper Cracks |
0 |
|
Formed over slots cut in the edges of the plates curved to fit rotary press cylinders. Associated with introduction of the rotary press printer. |
| 38 |
Groundwood |
0 |
|
Paper pulp produced by mechanically grinding wood logs making a weak, acidic paper that discolors upon exposure to light. |
| 39 |
Guerrilla Stamps |
0 |
|
Stamps issued by guerrilla forces such as those printed in 1895 when the underground fighters of Taiwan issued stamps for their Black Flag Republic. |
| 40 |
Guide dot/line |
0 |
|
Dot or line appearing on a postage stamp as a result of failure to erase punched or inscribed marks on the plate intended to guide the platemaker in entering the stamp impressions. Usually such marks are close to the frame of the stamp. |
| 41 |
Guide Dots |
0 |
English |
Dots on the plate or transfer roll used as a guide in the spacing and alignment of stamps. |
| 42 |
Guide Line |
0 |
|
Horizontal or vertical colored lines between the stamps used as a guide for operators of perforating machines or to indicate the point of separation of the sheet into panes. |
| 43 |
Guide Line Pair |
0 |
|
Attached pair of coil stamps with printed line between. |
| 44 |
Guide Lines |
0 |
English |
Horizontal or vertical colored lines between stamps, extending partially or completely across a sheet. These lines served as guides for perforating machine operators to indicate the point of separation of a sheet into panes. A block of stamps divided by any of the guidelines is known as a "line block" or "guide line block." |
| 45 |
Guilloche |
0 |
|
Delicate engraving formed by an engraved interlacing network. |
| 46 |
Guillotine Perforation |
0 |
|
Single-line perforation made by a machine resembling a guillotine. |
| 47 |
Gum |
0 |
English |
The adhesive found on the back of postage stamps. |
| 48 |
Gum Arabic |
0 |
|
Widely used adhesive applied as a glossy coating that is transparent when pure, but yellowish when less highly refined; obtained from the acacia tree and often called gum acacia. |
| 49 |
Gum Blister |
0 |
|
May be caused by excessive heat in gumming process, leaves areas of ungummed paper. |
| 50 |
Gum Breaker |
0 |
|
Colorless impressions across the backs of some stamps made during manufacture to prevent curling. |
| 51 |
Gum Breaker Bars |
0 |
English |
Colorless marks placed across the backs of some rotary press stamps during manufacture to inhibit curling. |
| 52 |
Gum crease |
0 |
|
A crease ironed out of the paper of an unused postage stamp but clearly visible in the gum; in some cases the crease is actually caused by warping and subsequent cracking of the gum. |
| 53 |
Gum Stain |
0 |
|
A discoloring of the gum usually caused by tropical humidity, salt air, etc. |
| 54 |
Gutter |
0 |
English |
Space left between stamps to allow them to be separated or perforated. |
| 55 |
Gutter Pair |
0 |
English |
A set of two stamps connected by a central label with or without printing on it -- which is not itself valid for postage that separates panes of stamps. Gutter pairs or gutter blocks must contain complete stamps on both sides of the gutter, including perforation teeth (unless the item is imperforate). |
| 56 |
Gutter Pairs |
0 |
English |
Two stamps with the selvage or gutter remaining between the pair. |
| 57 |
Gutter Snipe |
0 |
|
Miscut of the pane leaving the entire gutter and occasionally a portion of the adjoining stamp. |
| 58 |
Gutters |
0 |
English |
Spaces between the panes on a sheet of stamps. |
