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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Dec 30, 2022 17:59:19 GMT
I recently began a new area of collecting, Israel, postally used, with tabs. My question is, what, exactly, "officially" (so to speak) constitutes a tab? The 1st stamp below, I know has a tab. It is a stamp-like label attached below the stamp, but holds no postal validity. The second stamp: it has a label below the stamp, but I thought tabs, per se, contain extra text and/or imagery that expands on the stamp design. This just looks like the stamp design extending into the selvage. The third stamp: If the second stamp is considered to have a tab, what about this one? Can tabs be in the side margins as well as the bottom?
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Post by khj on Dec 31, 2022 0:20:26 GMT
Israeli "tabs" may or may not have descriptive text. On the long tabs, the 3rd tab might even be completely blank (i.e., white tab). It's amazing how much price difference a blank white tab can make on some of the early long tabs!
In your pic, all three stamps are considered with tabs. However, on all-different miniature sheets (such as the stamp on right) are collected intact, not separate singles with tabs. You will notice Scott catalog doesn't list singles with tabs from these types of sheets. The tab albums will have spaces for the entire miniature sheet (at least the ones I've seen, anyway). That eliminates the issue of whether you save the horizontal or vertical tab.
In my future WW Selvedge Catalog, I will have the tabs listed with and without the stamp.
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Dec 31, 2022 2:51:27 GMT
Thanks, k, for the explanation.
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