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Pricelists have to fit a lot of information in a very limited space, so sometimes abbreviations are used. You're bound to know common ones like FDC and MS, but there are many more that are used in the philatelic industry and we've tried to list as many as we can here. Hopefully they help you to understand our pricelists more fully.
ABBREVIATION |
DEFINITION |
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| MUH: | Mint Unhinged - Unmounted Mint, Mint Never Hinged | |||||
| MLH: | Mint Lightly Hinged | |||||
| Unused: | Mint or Uncancelled without Gum - (Generally on earlier issues Pre-1900) | |||||
| GU/FU /VFU: | Good Used, Fine Used or Very Fine Used | |||||
| (O) | Good Used, Fine Used or Very Fine Used | |||||
| U: | Used | |||||
| Superb | Perfect !!! No faults !!! | |||||
| Wmk | Watermark | |||||
| W/C: | Well-Centred | |||||
| R/C: | Reasonably Centred | |||||
| O/C: | Appreciably Off-Centre - Usually in two Directions | |||||
| CTO: | cancelled to order (Generally from PO " specimen" packs) | |||||
| GU: | good used | |||||
| W/C: | well centered | |||||
| c.d.s.: | circular date stamp cancellation | |||||
| h/s: | Handstamped or Handstamp | |||||
| SG: | Stanley Gibbons catalogue number. | |||||
| ACSC or B/W | Brusden White Aust.C'Wealth Specialist Catalogue | |||||
| SOA | Stamps of Australia - 10th. Edition. | |||||
| ASBA | Australian Booklet Specialist Album | |||||
| SC or Scott: | Scott Catalogue number current edition. | |||||
| A.S.C.: | Australian Stamp Catalogue (Seven Seas Stamps) Current Colour Edition | |||||
| S/S: | Seven Seas | |||||
| C of A | Commonwealth of Australia | |||||
| A.A.M.C./Eustis | Australian Air Mail Catalogue (Nelson Eustis) current edition | |||||
| AP | Australia Post | |||||
| Unadd: | Unaddressed | |||||
| AAT: | Australian Antarctic Territory | |||||
| BAT: | British Antarctic Territory | |||||
| BIOT: | British Indian Ocean Territory | |||||
| OS | Official Service - Official Use | |||||
| BCOF: | British Commonwealth Occupation Force(Japan) | |||||
| N.W.P.I. | North West Pacific Islands | |||||
| GRI | Georgus Rex Imperator | |||||
| O/W: | otherwise | |||||
| QV: | Queen Victoria | |||||
| KEVII: | King Edward VII | |||||
| KGV: | King George V | |||||
| KGVI: | King George VI | |||||
| QE II: | Queen Elizabeth II | |||||
| F.D.C. | First Day Cover | |||||
| C: | Cover | |||||
| SC: | Souvenir Cover | |||||
| PC: | Postcard | |||||
| FDI: | First Day of Issue | |||||
| PSE | Pre-Stamped Envelope | |||||
| LC | Lettercard | |||||
| F.V. or FV: | Face Value | |||||
| Commem: | Commemorative or Special Issue sets | |||||
| Defin: | Definitive or Regular long term issue stamp sets | |||||
| Opt.: | Overprinted | |||||
| M/S: | Miniature Sheets/ Souvenir Sheets | |||||
| B/S: | Button Set | |||||
| b/s | back stamp | |||||
| Shtlt: | Sheetlet | |||||
| VF or V.F.: | Very Fine: Refers to overall condition. | |||||
| Bklt/B | Booklet | |||||
| POP | Post Office Pack | |||||
| P: | Portfolio | |||||
| A: | Album or Year Album | |||||
| CN: | Collection | |||||
| CC: | Collector Card | |||||
| HB: | Heritage Book | |||||
| PTM | Perforated Through Margin | |||||
| PPM | Part Perforated Through Margin | |||||
| IPM | Imperforate Margin | |||||
| S | Specimen | |||||
| Unc.: | Uncirculated | |||||
| Perf | Perforation | |||||
| Imperf | Imperforate | |||||
| Imp. | Imprint | |||||
| POA | Price on Application | |||||
| Env. | Envelope | |||||
| H & G | Higgins & Gage(Postal Stationery Catalogue) | |||||
| Cat. | Catalogue Value | |||||
| STC | Stated to have a catalogue value of............... | |||||
| Selv. | Selvedge - | |||||
| (P) | Photographed | |||||
| CPS | Counter Printed Stamps ( Face Value Printed on Stamps at P.O. Counter) | |||||
| ATM | Automatic Teller Machine | |||||
| P.O. | Post Office | |||||
| Marg. | Marginal (Copy of Stamp Adjacent to Selvedge of Sheet) | |||||
