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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 that has some user identifying feature, like a company name, address, or even a postmark or 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, (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 magnified image of an object. The 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 collectors frequently use magnifying glasses to inspect their stamps. This photograph shows the magnified image of the Deutsche Post 1 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 Maltese Cross cancellation on folded 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.{{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 }}

|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 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 UPSS size 7 stamped envelope, watermark 6, laid paper, US postal stationery envelope from the Plimpton series of 1883.

|File:Garibaldi1910.jpg|A 1910 Italian stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Expedition of the Thousand

|File:Newspapers periodicals set4 1879.jpg|United States newspaper and periodicals stamps of 1875

|File:Brit Solomon Ysabel1-2d.jpg|A 1956 half penny stamp of the British Solomon Islands

|Image:Rossstamps1957.jpg|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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