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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases.
Silk: The red paste is made from finely pulverized cinnabar, mixed with castor oil and silk strands. The silk strands bind the mixture together to form a very thick substance. It has a very oily appearance and tends to be a bright red in colour. Plant: The red paste is made from finely pulverized cinnabar, mixed with castor oil and moxa punk ...
The Stamp Mobile, or Amend-o-Matic, is a Rube Goldberg contraption mounted on the back of a converted box truck. [7] It was conceived by Ben and Alan Rorie. Users insert a dollar bill, which travels a long and circuitous path and is finally stamped, in bold red text, with one of four different messages and returned to the user.
An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage or revenue stamp, postal stationery, banknote or ticket after it has been printed. [2] [3] Post offices most often use overprints for internal administrative purposes such as accounting but they are also employed in public mail.
The Psalter combines printed text with two-colour woodcuts: since both woodcuts and movable print are relief processes, they could be printed together on the same press. The Psalter is printed using black and red inks, with the smaller initials in red. The larger coloured capitals are done by hand in blue and red inks. [3]
1850 red 1d stamp; the first issued in New South Wales.One of the "Sydney Views". Around the image is the text "Sigillum Nov. Camb. Aust." ("Seal of New South Wales") with the motto "Sic fortis Etruria crevit" ("thus mighty Etruria grew") underneath.
There are several varieties of Red Revenue stamps, with the "Small One Dollar" being the rarest and most valuable. It has been called "China's rarest regularly issued stamp". In a 2013 Hong Kong auction, a single stamp was sold for HK$6.9 million. [3] Another was sold in a 2013 Beijing auction for 7.22 million yuan.
The Whole Country is Red is a Chinese postage stamp, issued on 24 November 1968, [1] which contained a problem with the design. The stamp features a map of China with the words "The Whole Country is Red" (Chinese: 全国山河一片红), with a worker, farmer, and soldier standing below with copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao, but Taiwan is not shaded red, merely outlined.