See also Batonne. British sheets printed before 1880 were perforated down the center of the gutter, producing oversized margins on one side of stamps adjacent to the gutter. Such copies are distinctive and scarcer than normal copies. A paper showing few differences in texture and thickness when held to light. In the production of wove paper, the pulp is pressed against a very fine netting, producing a virtually uniform texture.
Wove paper is the most commonly used paper in stamp production.
A flat sheet or strip open at both endsthat can be folded and sealed around a newspaper or periodical. Wrappers can have an imprinted stamp or have a stamp attached. A local stamp issued by Russian municipal governments or zemstvos, in accordance with an imperial edict of 1870. This first appeared on U.S. marginal selvage in 1964. Typically a ZIP block is a block of four stamps.