Miniature sheet
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A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a postage stamp or a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that just happen to
Liechtenstein miniature sheet with four stamps "Illustrations of the Codex Manesse - 800th Anniversary of Wolfram von Eschenbach" (1970)
This US souvenir sheet of 1936, issued for the TIPEX exhibition, consists of four contemporary commemoratives, imperforate.
A miniature sheet from the Faroe Islands, in which the stamp forms a part of the larger image
The British miniature sheet for the London 2010 Festival of Stamps
Stamp collecting
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Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late n
Miniature sheet
…issue. Both the stamps and the entire sheet are valid for mailing, although they are almost always sold above face value and kept in mint collection by collectors; a handful of usages may be found as philatelic covers. Luxembourg issued the first generally recognized souvenir sheet in 1923, a single 10-franc…
Le Philatéliste by François Barraud (1929)
A young stamp collector, 1954
Queen Victoria's profile was a staple on 19th century stamps of the British Empire, shown here on a half-penny stamp of the Falkland Islands, 1891.
Clockwise from top left: hinge-mounted stamp, stamp about to be hinge-mounted, stamp damaged by a hinge, stamp hinges