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Adding stamps Adding to your collection Album Area Catalog value Catalogue numbers Color Currency Date Denomination Description Design Design type Emboss Function Image Issue Issuer Item Joint issue Looking at the catalogue Note Object Occupation On Original issuer Overprint Overprint color Owner Paper Paper color Sheet Sorting Stamp Stamp page Thing Unissued Upload Value Variant Visibility Watermark |
An embossing is a design pressed into the paper of the stamp,
creating a pattern of raised and lowered areas. Embossing has only
rarely been used in stamp production.
Examples of embossing include the first stamps of Germany, Italy, and Natal, also grills of 19th-century US stamps. Swiss stamps long had a cross-in-oval pattern embossed on them, superficially resembling a watermark. |