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Issue: complete issues containing of one or more related postage stamps, postal stationeries, etc

Mint Never Hinged Issue: complete issue containing mint never hinged postage stamps

Used Issue: complete issue containing only used postage stamps

Mixed Issue: complete issue containing mint never hinged and used postage stamps

Partial Issue: incomplete issue in which one or more postage stamps, postal statio-neries etc. are missing

Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more postage stamps that belong together

Postal Stationery Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more postal stationeries that belong together

Official Issue: complete issue issued by a public postal administration

Private Issue: complete issue issued by a private person or company

Country Issue: complete issue issued for the whole area of a postal administration

Regional Issue: complete issue issued for a region (provincial issue, zone issue)

Local Issue: complete issue issued for a local area (postmaster´s issue, city issue)

Oberpostdirektion Issue: complete issue issued for an Oberpostdirektion (OPD)

Monochrome Issue: complete issue printed using a single colour

Multicolour Issue: complete issue printed using multiple colours

Issue With Postage Stamps Of The Same Size: complete issue containing postage stamps of one size

Issue With Postage Stamps In Different Sizes: complete issue containing postage stamps in different sizes

Issue With Growing Postage Stamps: complete issue in which the size of the postage stamps and the design print increas-es depending on the increasing face value

Issue With Postage Stamps In The Same Shape: complete issue containing postage stamps in the same outline design

Issue With Postage Stamp In Different Shapes: complete issue containing postage stamps in different outline designs

Farewell Issue: complete issue that was issued as the last issue of a postal area

Consumption Issue: complete issue with seldom needed face values ​​that are surchar-ged for exhaustion with often needed face values

Overprint Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more postage stamps with over-print that belong together

ATM Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more ATM postage stamps that belong together

Occupation Issue: complete issue issued after a military occupation

Sheet Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more sheets that belong together

Postage Stamp Compilation: complete issue containing all possible variations of a postage stamp (e.g. sheet and roll postage stamps)

Long Term Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more long term postage stamps that belong together

Official Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more official postage stamps that belong together

Special Delivery Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more special delivery postage stamps that belong together

Registeration Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more registeration postage stamps

First Issue: complete issue that was issued as the first issue of a postal area

Joint Issue: postage stamps that were issued in several postal areas for the same issue occassion

Inflation Issue: complete issue issued due to inflation with a high face value

Colonial Issue: complete issue issued for the use in a colony

Short Issue: incomplete issue in which one or more postage stamps, postal stationeries etc. are missing (e.g. with a high catalog value)

Airmail Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more airmail postage stamps that belong together

Mammoth Issue: philatelic term for an issue consisting of a very large number of postage stamps and / or souvenir sheets

Motif Postage Stamp Issue: philatelic term for an issue in which the focus is on visual representation and sales to stamp collectors

Parcel Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more parcel postage stamps that belong together

Postage Due Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more related postage due stamps that belong together

Provisional Issue: complete issue created temporarily e.g. to remedy an (imminent) shortage of postage stamps

Commemorative Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more commemorative postage stamps that belong together

Speculative Issue: complete issue that is not issued for postal use but rather for the exploitation of price differences within a cer-tain period of time for the purpose of taking profits

Independence Issue: complete issue that was issued on the occasion of an indepen-dence

Newspaper Postage Stamp Issue: complete issue consisting of one or more newspaper postage stamps that belong together

Semi-postal Postage Stamp Issue: comp-lete issue that was sold for a higher price (face value + surtax)