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List of philatelic topics

This is a list of philatelic topics.

Table of contents
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H
9 I
10 J
11 K
12 L
13 M
14 N
15 O
16 P
17 R
18 S
19 T
20 U
21 V
22 W
23 Z

A

- Acknowledgement of receipt - Aerogram - Aerophilately - Affixing machine - Airmail - Airmail etiquette - Approval - Arrow block - Auction - Auction catalog

B

- Balloon mail - Bicycle mail - Bisect - Bogus postal marking issue - Bogus stamp issue - Booklet - British Guiana 1c magenta - Bulk mail

C

- Cachet - Camel mail - Cancel - Cancellation - Cancelled to order - Caribou mail - Carrier's stamp - Censored mail - Center line block - Certified mail - Charity stamp - Christmas seal - Cigarette tax stamp - Cinderella stamp - Circular delivery mail - Classic stamp - Coil - Color guide - Color trial - Combination cover - Commemorative issue - Commemorative stamp - Concentration camp mail - Consular fee stamp - Control mark - Counterfeit - Courier mail - Cover - Crash cover - Crown agent - Cut square

D

- Damaged mail - Dead letter mail - Definitive issue - Definitive series - Delayed mail - Design error - Die proof - Diplomatic pouch mail - Dirigible mail - Disinfected mail - Dog mail - Dogsled mail - Dummy stamp

E

- Earliest known use (EKU) - Embossing - Engraver's mark - Engraving - Entire - Envelope - Errors and varieties - Errors, freaks, and oddities (EFO) - Essay - Expert - Expertization - Express company - Express mail

F

- Famous stamp - Fancy cancel - Favor cancel - Favor sheet - Fee paid mail - Field post office - First day ceremony - First day cover - First day of issue - First flight - First issue - Fiscal cancellation - Fiscal issue - Flat plate press - Floor sweepings - Forerunner - Forgery - Forwarding agent - Fractional currency - Franchise stamp - Franking privilege - Free frank - Fumigated mail

G

- Graphite line - Grill - Guide line - Gum

H

- Handstruck stamp - Health stamp - Highway post office - History of philately - Hotel post - Hovercraft mail

I

- Illustration law - Imitation - Imperforate - Imprint - Imprint block - Ink - Inscription - Inscription block - Institutional collection - Insured mail - International mail - International reply coupon - Inverted Jenny - Investment - Irradiated mail

J

- Joint line - Joint line pair

K

- Killer

L

- Label - Late fee stamp - Letter carrier - Letterpress - Letter sheet - Line pair - List of entities that have issued postage stamps - List of philatelic topics (deliberate self-link) - List of philatelists - List of stamp collectors - List of stamp dealers - Lithography - Local post - Luminescent issue

M

- Mail fraud - Mail robbery - Mailman - Marginal marking - Marine insurance stamp - Maritime mail - Maximum card - Metered mail - Michel catalog - Military mail - Miniature sheet - Minipack - Mixed franking - Mobile post office - Money order - Mr Zip

N

- Naval cover - Naval mail - New issue - Newspaper stamp - Newspaper wrapper

O

- Occupation stamp - Offices abroad - Official mail - Offset printing - Overprint

P

- Packet letter - Packet mark - Paper - Paquebot - Parcel post - Paste-up pair - Penalty mail - Pen cancel - Penny post - Perfin - Perforation - Permit mail - Phantom issue - Philatelic agency - Philatelic cover - Philatelic literature - Philately - Picture post card - Pigeon mail - Plate block - Plate marking - Plate number coil - Plate - Plating - Plebiscite issue - Pneumatic mail - Polar mail - Postage due - Postage stamp booklet - Postage stamp reuse - Postage stamp separation - Postal card - Postal convention - Postal history - Postal laws and regulations - Postal marking - Postal route - Postal savings - Postal slogan - Postal stationery - Postal tax - Postal treaty - Postal union - Postcard - Post office - Post road - Pre-adhesive cover - Precancel - Presentation album - Presentation book - Price list - Printing - Prisoner-of-war mail - Private cancellation - Private carrier - Private overprint - Private post - Proof - Provisional

R

- Railroad post office - Railway mail - Rare issue - Ration stamp - Red Cross label - Registered mail - Regummed stamp - Reissue - Reprint - Remainder - Reperforation - Reply card - Reply coupon - Revenue cancellation - Revenue stamp - Rocket mail - Rotary press - Rouletting - Rowland Hill

S

- Savings issue - Scott catalog - Se-tenant - Semi-official - Semi-postal - Separation - Ship mail - Siege mail - Slogan cancellation - Socked on the nose (SON) - Souvenir card - Souvenir sheet - Space cover - Space mail - Special delivery - Special handling - Specimen - Stanley Gibbons - Stamp album - Stamp catalog - Stamp collecting - Stamp condition - Stamp design - Stamp exhibition - Stamp finder - Stamp gum - Stamp hinge - Stamp mounting - Stamp separation - Steamship issue - Streetcar mail - Strike mail - Study circle - Submarine mail - Surcharge

T

- Tagging - Tax stamp - Telegraph stamp - Test stamp - Tete-beche - Thematic collecting - Tin Can Mail - Topical collecting - Training stamp - Transatlantic mail - Transoceanic mail - Treaty port - Treskilling Banco

U

- Unaccepted design - Undeliverable mail - Undesirable issue - Universal Postal Union - Untagged - Used abroad

V

- Valentine cover - Variety - Varnish bars - Vending machine - View card

W

- Want list - War cover - War issue - War mail - War savings issue - War tax - Watermark - Wrapper - Wreck cover

Z

- Zeppelin mail - Zip block