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BLOCK- A group of stamps, usually four or morre.
BOOKLET- Stamps issued in a portable booklet foorm printed in large sheets. 
CANCELLATION- Mark or imprint, e.g., CANCELLED, SPECCIMEN, SAMPLE, applied to a stamp to render stamps invalid for postal use.
CATALOG- A list of stamps issued, their approxiimate prices, features and other important details.
COMMEMORATIVE- A stamp issued for a limited time and limited quantity to honor a certain person, event, anniversary or group.
COVER- The envelope or wrapper which are compplete and bear proof of having served postally.
DENOMINATION- The face value, expressed in words or figures on a stamp. 
ENGRAVED- Stamps printed from plates engraved inn recess.
FIRST-DAY COVER- Stamp used on the First-Day of Issue aand retained on its original envelope. - Usually abbreviated to FDC.
FRAME- The other portion of a stamp which surrrounds the central design. 
GUM- The adhesive lining at the back of an unused stamp.
HINGED- Small strip of paper gummed on one sidde and used for mounting stamps in an album. 
IMPERFORATE- A stamp printed on sheets without any means of separation. 
LITHOGRAPH- Stamps printed from designs drawn or ttransferred upon a metal surface. 
MAXIMUM CARDS- Picture postcard with the vignette of the stamp as the main design.
METERED MAIL- Mail franked by postage meter machiness.
MINT- An unused stamp in perfect condition wwith its original full gum. 
OFFICIAL USE- Adhesive stamps prepaid for the frankiing of correspondence of government departments. The Philippine equivalent of O.B. or G.O.
OFFSET PROCESS- Stamps which designs are produced by aa specially prepared lithographic plates printed into a rubber-blanketed cylinder.
ORIGINAL- A genuine stamp as it was issued as oppposed to Reissue, Reprint.
OVERPRINT- Any inscription printed on a regular iissue stamp in addition to its original vignette usually denoting a change of government, in a war, commemorate events, propaganda, etc.
PAIR- A couple of stamps that have not been separated.
POSTMARK- Any mark tapped on mail by postal offiicials for any postal purposes.
PERFORATIONS- The small holes pushed around the sidees of each stamps on a sheet to separate without damaging them.
PHILATELY- Collecting, studying and advancement oof postage stamps and other stamped matters. 
RE-ISSUE- A stamp or series of stamps brought baack into use after it had been superseded or out of use.
REPRINT- An impression taken from an original pplate of stamps, that have gone out of use, or from new plates derived from the original die. 
SE-TENANT- Two different or variations of stamps in an unseparated pair, occasionally each with different denomination.
STRIP- Three or more stamps unservered in a ssingle row or column.
SURCHARGE- An overprint altering the stamp's facee value.
TETE-BECHE- A sheet of stamps containing strips innverted in relation to their neighbors. 
UNUSED- Uncanceled stamp that has lost its oriiginal gum.
VIGNETTE- The central portrait, picture, as disttinct from its frame. 
WATERMARK- The alphanumeric character/s formed inn paper during its manufacture.
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