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A ring-binder of loose-leaf stock pages – with deep pouches that make interleaving unnecessary and holds stamps securely. Some collectors require more flexibility than a bound stockbook allows, because moving individual stamps from page to page can be time consuming and may cause damage.
Freaks include paper folds resulting in half-printed half-blank stamps, "crazy perfs" running diagonally across stamps, and insects embedded in stamps, underneath the ink. Stamp freak, strange matter embedded in paper's stamp above number 2 (Australia 2d king George V orange die 1, 1920).
A number of die proofs and plate proofs of stamps from the Melita issue exist. Die proofs are individual prints from the stamps' original dies made at various stages of production, and are impressions of either the key die or the duty die of each value, or composite die proofs of both dies together. Plate proofs, which are test printings made ...
Newspaper Postage Stamps: The De La Rue Dies 1860–1870. London: Pall Mall Stamp Co. for Robson Lowe, 1980 ISBN 0-85397-184-6, 8p. From China and Tibet: A commentary on letters written by missionaries working in the interior. 1844–1865. London: Pall Mall Stamp Co. for Robson Lowe, 1981 ISBN 0-85397-240-0, 20p. The Oswald Schroeder Forgeries.
Die proof for the United States Jefferson issue of 1861 Approved proofs from Waterlow and Sons printers for a Bolivian stamp issue of 1943. (Subsequently punched for security purposes.) In philately a Die Proof is a printed image pulled directly from the master die for an engraved stamp.
George Wendell Brett (May 30, 1912 – January 14, 2005), of Iowa, was a philatelist who wrote extensively on postage stamps and other material produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and was called ”Mr. BIA” by his colleagues.
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The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting, 2005, Lorenz Books, 256 pp, ISBN 0-7548-1530-7 1800 Stamps of the World: A Stunning Visual Directory of Rare and Familiar Issues, Organized Country by Country with over 1800 Images of Collectables from up to 200 Countries , Southwater, 160 pp, 2007, ISBN 1-84476-346-3