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|File:Great Britain 1929 PUC advertising pane op cancelled SG436var.jpg|Advertising for the '''[[stamp dealer]]''' [[Charles Nissen]] on a booklet pane from the 1929 PUC stamps of Great Britain.
|File:Zeppelin mail-1934 Xmas flight Gibraltar-Brazil.jpg|Cover sent by [[Zeppelin]] from [[Gibraltar]] on 20 November 1934 to [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] via London and Berlin for the Christmas flight (12th South American flight) of 1934 that took place between the 8th and 19th. The two red "MIT LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN" and green circular marking were applied by the post office. This is a [[printed matter]] item that has been registered.
|File:1900c&sperfin.png|A [[postal stationery]] envelope used from [[London]] to [[Düsseldorf]] in 1900, with additional [[postage stamp]] perfinned "C & S" identifying the user as "Churchill & Sim" per the seal on the reverse shown on inset. A '''[[perfin]]''', the contraction of 'PERForated INitials', is a pattern of tiny holes punched through a postage stamp. Organizations used perforating machines to make perforations forming letters or designs in postage stamps with the purpose of preventing pilferage. It is often difficult to identify the originating uses of individual perfins because there are often no identifying features but when a perfin is affixed to a [[Cover (philately)|cover]] that has some user identifying feature, like a company name, address, or even a [[postmark]] or [[Cancellation (mail)|cancellation]] of a known town where the company had offices, this enhances the perfin.
|File:Crash cover Khartoum-Alexandria 31Dec1935.jpg|A '''[[crash cover]]''' is any type of [[Cover (philately)|cover]], (including '''air accident cover''', '''interrupted flight cover''', '''wreck cover''') meaning any piece of [[mail]] that has been recovered from a [[fixed-wing aircraft]], [[airship]] or [[aeroplane]] crash, train wreck, [[shipwreck]] or other postal transportation accident during its journey from sender to recipient. In many cases it was possible to recover some or even all of the mail being carried and the [[postal authorities]] typically apply a [[postal marking]] (cachet), label, or mimeograph that gets affixed to the cover explaining the delay and damage to the recipient, and possibly enclose the letter in an "ambulance cover" or "body bag" if it was badly damaged and forwarded to its intended destination.
|File:Magnifying glass2.jpg|A '''[[magnifying glass]]''' is a [[convex lens]] which is used to produce a [[Magnification|magnified]] [[image]] of an object. The [[Lens (optics)|lens]] is usually mounted in a frame with a handle though other designs are produced. A magnifying glass works by creating a magnified [[virtual image]] of an object behind the lens. [[Stamp collecting|Stamp collectors]] frequently use magnifying glasses to inspect their [[postage stamp|stamps]]. This photograph shows the magnified image of the [[Deutsche Post]] 1 [[German Reichsmark|Reichsmark]] stamp issued on May 12 1946.
|File:Stamp GB-Penny Black first day cover.jpg|This is a very scarce use of the world's first postage stamp, the '''[[Penny Black]]''', used on first day of valid use, May 6, 1840, tied by red [[Cancellation (mail)|Maltese Cross cancellation]] on folded [[Cover (philately)|cover]] to Warwickshire, brown "C MY-6 1840" first day datestamp on backflap verifies date of use. This was sold as lot 1018 at Robert Siegal's 2006 Rarities of the World auction for $45,000.
|File:Stamp Jamaica 1956 unissued 1sh.jpg|Unissued [[1956 £1 Jamaican chocolate and violet]], the first stamp designed for Queen Elizabeth II. Held in the British Library Crown Agents Collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/philatelic/philateliccollections/collectionsoverview/collectionsgeneral/philcollectionsgeneral.html |title=Philatelic Collections: General Collections |publisher=British Library |date=2003-11-30 |access-date=2011-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630103038/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/philatelic/philateliccollections/collectionsoverview/collectionsgeneral/philcollectionsgeneral.html |archive-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|File:Encased.jpg|Widespread hoarding of coins during the [[American Civil War]] created a shortage, prompting the use of stamps for currency. To be sure, the fragility of stamps made them unsuitable for hand-to-hand circulation, and to solve this problem, [[John Gault]] invented the '''[[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Encased postage stamps|encased postage stamp]]''' in 1862. A normal U. S. stamp was wrapped around a circular cardboard disc and then placed inside a coin-like circular brass jacket.
|File:FawnEnvelope1883Plimpton.jpg|A fawn colored [[United Postal Stationery Society|UPSS]] size 7 '''[[stamped envelope]]''', [[watermark#Watermarks on postage stamps and stationery|watermark]] 6, [[laid paper]], US postal stationery envelope from the Plimpton series of 1883.
|File:Garibaldi1910.jpg|A 1910 '''[[Postage stamps and postal history of Italy|Italian stamp]]''' commemorating the 50th anniversary of the [[Expedition of the Thousand]]
|File:Newspapers periodicals set4 1879.jpg|United States '''[[Newspaper stamp|newspaper and periodicals stamps]]''' of 1875
|File:Brit Solomon Ysabel1-2d.jpg|A 1956 half penny stamp of the '''[[Postage stamps and postal history of Solomon Islands|British Solomon Islands]]'''
|Image:Rossstamps1957.jpg|'''[[Postage stamps and postal history of the Ross Dependency|Ross Dependency]]''' 1957 issue (3 of 4 stamps)
|File:British forces in Egypt.jpg|A '''[[military stamp]]''' used by the British forces in Egypt around 1935
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