Stamp roll
A roll of postage stamps, or simply a roll, describes a form of delivery of postage stamps . For this purpose, stamps with the same motif and the same value level are either printed one above the other or next to one another.
Intended use
At the counter, different denominations are often available in a special stand and are quickly accessible. Some issues were also given through postage stamp machines. In both cases, the main advantage of the roll brands is that when selling the stamp, only one side (up to 4 sides in a curve) has to be cut off, which saves a lot of time at the counter and makes it possible to sell via vending machines in the first place .
Manufacturing
In contrast to sheet stamps, where 10, 25, 50 or 100 stamps are usually printed in one sheet, roll marks are produced in "large sheets" according to the intended roll size. Sizes of 200, 300, 400, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 or 10,000 stamps per roll are common. The arches are perforated and then cut so that only one stamp is attached to the other, regardless of whether the stamps are only perforated on two or four sides.
Specifics in Germany
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The outward appearance of the roll brands does not differ from the same issues in sheet form. The lateral perforation of a roll mark is generally of poor quality compared to the sheet mark due to the automatic cut. For this reason, the same stamps are also produced in sheet form for collectors in a small edition. To simplify billing, every fifth stamp has a counting number on the gummed side .
In order to avoid technical malfunctions in vending machines, so-called empty fields were glued to the end of the roll. These are usually greenish pieces of paper the same size as the actual stamps, which were also perforated. On the one hand, this should enable the machine to sell all brands, but on the other hand it should also automatically recognize the end of the roll in order to avoid a "non-sale", i.e. H. To prevent money from being inserted without issuing stamps, as the roll is used up.
Since mid-1995, the empty fields are no longer glued to all roll sizes, unless they are to be sold via vending machines. In the meantime, empty fields are generally no longer stuck on, as reel brands are no longer sold on machines; vending machine brands are sold there today . After that there were empty fields only in 10,000 rolls of the permanent series sights (40 Pfg., 45 Pfg., 47 Pfg., 110 Pfg (Expo MiNr. 2009), 47 Pfg / 0.24 Euro, 110 Pfg. / 0.56 Euro , 0.25 euros, 0.55 euros), but not only the four empty fields at the end, but also nine empty fields at the beginning, to protect the stamps, as these stamps are automatically stuck onto the mailings by the senders.
packaging
The banderoles and the locking plates are collected from the roll packaging . Each unopened roll of stamps is enclosed in a banderole. From the series “ Important Germans” on , ten rolls were packed in plastic film and given a round sticker, called a closure plate, at the top and bottom . This type of packaging was available until mid-1995.
From mid-1995, at the same time as the pull-on strips were removed, the rolls were packed individually in a colorful folding box and ten boxes were glued together on the sides with two fixed points. The boxes could be broken off individually. Each brand had its own box color, which was very complex.
Later as today, all packaging boxes for the roll brands are uniformly white-gray and have a sticker that has the value level, the total price, the date of manufacture, the issue series and the motif of the brand printed on it. The information content and the typeface of the stickers vary from time to time. The boxes are no longer glued to the side.
In Germany, self-adhesive special stamps will also be sold in so-called brand boxes from 2000. The stamps stick to a roll of paper and have the number on the back of the carrier film. The usual roll size is 100 pieces.
As of 2005, there will be no empty spaces or pull-on strips for all roll sizes in the new permanent series Flowers . Thus, the collection area roll ends is closed with pull-on strips.
Gang forms
The counting number is the only sign that a stamp can be proven to have come from a roll; alternatively, the proof can only be provided by an 11-strip of stamps (for stamps made in sheets of ten by ten stamps), for smaller printed sheets the number is correspondingly lower. In the case of the roll brands of the Bundespräsident Heuss series, the verifiable roll brands are traded more expensively in accordance with the circulation figures; in all subsequent series, the sheet stamps are regularly more expensive.
Roll stamps are still collected in strips of multiple stamps (3, 5, 6, 11 or 15 strips). The beginning of the roll, parts of the roll and ends of the roll are to be differentiated using the serial numbers on the back, which are five, four, three, two or one-digit in the current editions.
Pay attention not only to the stamps, but also to the serial numbers on the back. In addition to the usual black numbers, the Heuss series also had red numbers, and for accident prevention there were also red, blue, green and blue-green numbers. Since about 1996 the counting numbers are no longer printed with a mechanical roller mill, but with an inkjet. Currently there are counting numbers with and without a dot after the counting number, depending on which machine the stamps were run on during production. The sprayed number color is usually gray.
Around the end of 2004, for four values (10 Pfg / 0.05 Euro - 20 Pfg / 0.10 Euro - 1.00 Euro and 4.10 Euro) in a smaller partial edition, deep black number colors with a dot behind the counting numbers appeared. In later editions the counting numbers were again to be found in gray as usual.
Roll brands
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cut above and below
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literature
- MICHEL Roll Brand Catalog Germany 2006 . Schwaneberger Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87858-551-9 .
