Artists Stamps Works

A stamp artist´s works are small artworks, a finished painting, a drawing, a photo
or made in any other form by a Stamp Artist or just his or hers preliminary sketch.
Approved or not approved for stamp printing.

WHAT IS A STAMP ERROR?

May be a work of a drunken printer, a broken printing press, paper waste

or an innovative creation at the printing house. Perforation errors.

Postage stamp errors occurs by a problem in the printing process.

By a misstake, accident or by purpouse.

Inverted overprint is a classic error but there are a lot more.
Something can be wrong with he paper making it a stamp paper error.
Perforation errors or printed on the gum just make it even more interesting.
As stamps usually are printed in many colours it can be hard to get it right.

WHAT IS AN IMPERFORATED STAMP?

Imperforated stamps are postage stamps with no perfins at any side, nor rouletted.

They are popular known as "imperfs". The earliest stamps were all imperforated,

as well as many later self-adhesive stamps are.

WHAT IS KILOWARE OR A STAMP MIXTURE?

Kiloware or stamp mixtures are used postage stamps (cancelled) on paper cut out

from envelope corners, postcards, parcels or postal freight bills.

WHAT IS A SPECIMEN STAMP?

Postage stamps overprinted or perforated "specimen" was earlier sent by each country to the

Universal Postal Union for to be distributed to the member countries as reference stamps.
Nowadays specimen stamps are issued more for marketing purposes.

Specimen stamps is a specialized field of stamp collecting.

WHAT IS A STAMP PROOF ?

Stamp proofs are pre-prints for colour and quality evaluation.

Progressive proofs are showing the printing process in different colours.

An unissued print of a officially planned stamp withdrawn before the issuing date.

WHAT IS AN UNISSUED STAMP?

WHAT IS AN EMERGENCY STAMP?

Emergeny stamps are special stamps issued for the use at wartime or emergency situations.

WHAT IS AN OVERPRINTED STAMP?

Stamps overprinted with new values, a celebration, change of country name etc.

Can be found with inverted overprint, overprint error or as faked overprints.

WHAT IS A STAMP CERTIFICATE?

The purpose of a stamp certificate is to give a stamp collector a proof of genuiness

for a specific stamp, given by independent philatelic experts.

WHAT IS A FORGERY OR an OLD REPRINT?

A forgery is made for to fool. A genuine old reprint is for to meet a demand for more stamps.

WHAT IS STAMP PERFINS?

Stamp perfins are small holes in the stamps forming letters or figueres,

for to avoid missuse or theft.

WHAT IS STAMP ARTIST WORKS?

A drawing, a painting, a photo or any other piece made in any form by a Stamp Artist.

Approved or not approved for stamp printing-