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In philately, a gutter is the space left between Mystic Stamp: Stamp Collecting Questions and Answers
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421232119/http://mysticstamp.com/content.asp?contentID=10 , date=2007-04-21 (retrieved 22 March 2007) *Gutter margin is a margin dividing a sheet of stamps into separate panes.
Chess Gutter Pairs and Blocks
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USA 3c violet Peace of 1783 gutter pair
Philatelic terminology
In philately, a gutter is the space left between postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...
s which allows them to be separated or perforated.Bennett, Russell and Watson, James; ''Philatelic Terms Illustrated'', Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978). When stamps are printed on large sheets of paper
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed ...
that will be guillotined into smaller sheets along the gutter it will not exist on the finished sheet of stamps. Some sheets are specifically designed where two panes of stamps are separated by a gutter still in the finished sheet and gutters may, or may not, have some printing in the gutter. Since perforation of a particular width of stamps is normal, the gutter between the stamps is often the same size as the postage stamp.
Several derivative terms exist:
*Gutter pairs are two stamps separated by a gutter.
*Gutter block is a block of at least four stamps where either the vertical or horizontal pairs, or both, are separated by a gutter.{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421232119/http://mysticstamp.com/content.asp?contentID=10 , date=2007-04-21 (retrieved 22 March 2007) *Gutter margin is a margin dividing a sheet of stamps into separate panes.
See also
*Centro de hoja
Centro de hoja or Center of the sheet is a kind of Cuban postage stamps where there are intersecting gutters between four panes of stamps.Littrell, Robert; ''Centros de Hoja or Center of the Sheets''; The Cuban Philatelist, Vol.XX, Whole No. 55; ...
(center of the sheet) with intersecting gutters
* Label (philately) In philately, label or coupon or tab is a part of sheet of stamps separated from them with perforation (or narrow white margin in imperforate stamps). It cannot be used for postage because it does not have face value and any indication of a postal ...
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Chess Gutter Pairs and Blocks
printer gutters
USA 3c violet Peace of 1783 gutter pair
Philatelic terminology