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A Brief History of stamps
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                    United States
Download Programs to Inventory Your United States Stamps
 Mourning Stamps
Nicknames of famous stamps
Scott Catalogue 1896 Book Review
 Stamp Glossary
TASCO Educational Booklets
TASCO Non-booklet items: advertising covers, cinderellas, approval sheets, etc
 TASCO Album Pages
Ten Low Cost Ways to Start Collecting Stamps
Tips for the Beginner
World Records in Stamps
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Albums - Glassine Interleaving
Acid_Paper_and_Album_Pages
Buying Stamps - Kiloware and Mixtures
Buying & Using Sheet Protectors
Buying Stamps - New Issues
Great Deals are Often Not What They Seem
 Glues, Gums, and Adhesives
How to Tell a Revenue Usage When You See One
Inventories or Keeping Track
Learning About Your Hobby
Mount Stamps
Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Cancellations
 Problems and a solution
Select An Album
Soaking Stamps
Soaking II
Sort Stamps
Save Time
Tools of the Trade
Tools -Cleaning Up
Tools - Stockbooks, Stockpages and Stockcards
Tag Stamps --Safety
Watermark Stamps 
What Condition Your Condition Is In
Specializing and Specialty Groups
What are and How to -Perforations
What is My Collection Worth?
 “Unlisted Watermarks” and More
Used Catalogs and Stamp Books

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Artcraft FDC's
My Other World
U.S. Revenues - I Love them!
What to Collect

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Other terms for branches of philately

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Stamp Glossary "U"

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Unissued Stamps Stamps printed but were not officially released for sale and used by the postal authorities.Last stamps of USSR,(october 1991) - no postally used.

Used A stamp which has had postal or fiscal use and has been postmarked or cancelled.

Used Fiscally Stamps or revenue stamps used for the payment of revenue charges

Used on Cover A stamp (or stamps) postmarked and preserved on the original envelope.

Used on Piece Stamp retained on a portion of the original cover to preserve the entire postmark

Used Abroad Stamps of one country used and postmarked in another country.

Unused Stamp has not been used in the post may be partially or wholly without gum, or bear traces of old hinges on the back.