First stamps printed from a printing plate
An imprimatur of the 1870 rose-red three halfpence stamp of Great Britain from Plate 3. In the collection of the British Postal Museum and Archive .
In philately the word imprimatur refers to the first stamps printed from an approved and finished printing plate .
The term is particularly associated with British Victorian stamps as it was the practice of the printers to retain the first sheet as a record.
The word is from the Latin "let it be printed".
References
^ Mackay, James . Philatelic Terms Illustrated , 4th edition, Stanley Gibbons , London, 2003, p.70. ISBN 0-85259-557-3 .
Patrick, Douglas & Mary. The Hodder Stamp Dictionary , Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1973, p.115. ISBN 0-340-17183-9 .
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