Plating (philately)

Composite plate reconstruction of 240 used Penny Black stamps

Plating refers to the reconstruction of a pane or "sheet" of postage stamps printed from a single plate by using individual stamps and overlapping strips and blocks of stamps.[1] Likewise, if a sheet 10 or 20 postal cards is typeset, the variations of the letters or design elements may allow reconstruction or plating of the sheets based on these differences.[2]

  1. ^ "Glossary Of Philatelic Terms". Linn's Stamp News. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  2. ^ Littrell, Robert, Ed.; Postal Cards of Spanish Colonial Cuba, Philippines and Puerto Rico, UPSS (2010).