page_title: Postage stamp block
section_title: Collecting
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamp block / Collecting
caption_attribution_description: English: Pakistan SAARC Imprint
context_page_description: In philately, a block is a group of four or more un-separated stamps. Blocks are of interest not only because they are rarer than individual stamps, but they also preserve relative positions of stamps as they were originally printed, information that is crucial to understanding how the stamps were produced.
context_section_description: Plate Block
  The most commonly collected kind of block is the plate block, which includes the part of the margin where the serial numbers of the printing plates may be found.
  Imprint Block
  Imprint block contains the name of printer in either bottom or top margin of the stamp sheet.
  Gutter Block
  Gutter block contains stamp margins which are normally at corners of stamps are in the centre of block of stamps.
caption: Imprint Block
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