GUTTER
The philatelic use of the word Gutter is the space in form of paper left between two or more postage stamps that allows them to
be separated or perforated.
Stamps
with Gutter
When stamps are printed on large sheets of paper 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 may or may
not be of 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.
Gutter margin is a margin dividing
a sheet of stamps into separate panes.
LIST OF STAMPS WITH GUTTER
FOR THE POST INDEPENDENCE PERIOD:
1.
INDIAN
SAINTS AND POETS
2.
RAILWAY
CENTENARY
3.
SERVICE
STAMP Rs. 10
4.
Exhibition
1973 miniature sheet
5.
Mask miniature
sheet
6.
U p u
miniature sheet
7.
Exhibition
1987 miniature venue & logo
8.
Panes of
stamps of 1989 exhibition issues
9.
Leopard cat
definitive stamp (gutter by error)
10.
Agra fort
miniature sheet 2004
11.
Letter box
miniature sheet 2005
12.
Buddha
miniature sheet 2007
13.
Satyagraha
miniature sheet 2007
14.
Greetings
sheetlet 2007 mix
15.
Greeting
shetlet single stamp
16.
Jasmine
miniature sheet
17.
Aldabara
gaint tortoise 2008 sheetlet ( in all sheetlets)
18.
Standard
chartered bank sheetlet 2008
19.
Gail
sheetlet 2008
20.
Rampur raja
library 2009 miniature sheet
21.
Indian
heritage railway stations 2009 miniature sheet
22.
Rare fauna
of north east miniature sheet 2009
23.
Horses of
India miniature sheet 2009
24.
Preserve
the polar region & glaciers 2010 miniature sheet
25.
Astrological
signs miniature sheet 2010
26.
Postal
heritage buildings 2010 miniature sheet
27.
Biodiversity
2010 miniature sheet
28.
Queen’s
batton 2010 miniature sheet
29.
Pigeon
& sparrow miniature sheet 2010
30.
100 years
of air mail 2011 miniature sheet
31.
Biodiversity
2012 miniature sheet
32.
33.
THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF
FDC AND BROCHURES OF GUTTER
FIRST DAY COVER OF LETTER BOX ( 2005)
WITH GUTTER OF FOUR STAMPS
FROM MINIATURE SHEET
AGA KHAN FOUNDATION AGRA FORT 2004
PIECE OF PAPER PRINTED WITH FLOWER TREATED AS GUTTER
GREETING 2007
TAB BETWEEN TWO STAMPS
WORKS AS GUTTER
FROM SHEETLET
GREETING 2007
TAB BETWEEN FIVE STAMPS
WORKS AS GUTTER
FROM SHEETLET
FIRST DAY COVER OF
COMPLETE SET OF
VERTICAL
GUTTER PAIR SET OF
5, 15, 5 + 15, 15 + 5.
FIRST DAY COVER OF
COMPLETE SET OF
HORIZONTAL
GUTTER PAIR SET OF
5, 15, 5 + 15, 15 + 5.
COMPLETE SET OF
VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL
GUTTER PAIRS
