Talk:List of United States airmail stamps

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 * List of United States airmail stamps/header - the table header for each year span subsection - I was experiementing with tweaking them, I did not want to have to go through each of them, when a template would work better
 * usams - used to format stamp dimensions (without fractions)
 * usams2 - used to format stamp dimensions (with fractions)

 Jonverve   Talk  Contrib 15:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Terms to add somewhere
add where appropriate:


 * LINE PAIR: A pair of coil stamps which has a guide line between them.


 * PLATE BLOCK: A block of four or more stamps with a plate number(s) printed in the surrounding attached selvage. Early Flat Plate sheets usually contain plate blocks comprised of six stamps with selvage on only one side and the plate number center on the piece of selvage. On Rotary Press and other sheets where only one or two plate numbers appear together, the customary format is four stamps from the corner of the pane with selvage on two sides and the plate number. On multi-color, multi-plate printings, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, a series of plate numbers often ran down a substantial part of the selvage causing plate blocks to be 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20 stamps. Most modern plate blocks are now comprised of four stamps from one corner of a pane with selvage on two sides and a single multi-colored plate number. All prices listed for Plate Blocks are for 4 stamps unless otherwise noted in parenthesis like this: (12).


 * SHEET: A full uncut unit of stamps as they come from the press. A sheet is made up of four or more panes.


 * PANE: A unit of stamps cut from a sheet for distribution and sale to the public. Most definitives are printed in sheets of 400 and cut for sale into panes of 100 stamps. Commemoratives are typically printed in sheets of 200 and are cut for sale in panes of 50 stamps. There are many exceptions to these quantities especially in recent years.


 * MINI SHEET: Popular in recent years, a mini sheet is a pane of stamps in a smaller than normal format. Typically 20 stamps per pane. Some examples are the Bret Hart $5 definitive and the Marilyn Monroe 32¢ commemorative.

Jonverve (talk) 19:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * SOUVENIR SHEET: As the name implies, a souvenir sheet is a miniature sheet that was released as a souvenir to be saves rather than postally used - although such sheets and the single stamps from them can be legally used as postage.

Copyright violation
Per this discussion Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately the extensive use of stamp catalog numbers is a copyright violation so I have removed all the Scott catalogue numbers to comply. Having placed a request two months ago, I asked the original editor of the tables, who has not been active or has not had the time to revise them, I have done my best to keep all the other info in that column intact. ww2censor (talk) 22:50, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

reliable sources
I remove all the stampcollecting.wikia.com links because that is not a reliable source, per WP:SPS besides which there are only 57 pages. ww2censor (talk) 08:16, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Error
July 30, 1947	25¢ Blue[P 2][PERF 2] (200 Subject Electric Eye Plates) Size: 1.44 x 0.84 inch	Stratocruiser over the Golden Gate Bridge

The bridge shown on the stamp is the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.214.38.106 (talk) 21:22, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wrong stamp showing
The stamp displayed in the table which is identified as a 30 cent blue is actually a 10 cent violet (entry of September 25, 1941). Remedy: someone with a 30 cent blue should swap it in. Gdcwork (talk) 16:43, 9 September 2018 (UTC) gdcwork
 * : I've reverted to the original correct 30c image, so it's all good again but we could do with a higher resolution image. ww2censor (talk) 23:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

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