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ROULETTING EN ARCS [1 record]

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Record 1 1985-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
OBS

scalloped roulette: A roulette in which the cutting blades are in the form of tiny arcs. All blades face the same way and are set in line so that the roulette is a series of concave arcs on one stamp and convex arcs on the adjoining stamp ...

OBS

... it [rouletting] is further differentiated by the pattern of the cutting: serpentine, scalloped (or "en arcs"), saw-toothed (or "en scie"), straight-line (or "en ligne"), etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Timbres et oblitération
CONT

[...] Les perçages en arcs, en zigzag, en serpentin et en dents de scie, que la désignation suffit à expliquer [...] donnent à certains timbres un aspect spectaculaire [...]

Spanish

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