Embossing - Embossing Embossing is the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper. It is typically accomplished with a combination of heat and pressure on the paper. Notarizing A notary public frequently uses embossing to mark legal papers, either in the form of an adhesive seal, or using a clamp-like embossing device. Postage stamps Embossing has been used regularly on postage stamps. Notable early examples include some of the earliest stamps of Italy, Natal, and Switzerland, as well as the early high values of Great Britain. Modern stamps still sometimes use embossing as a design element..
ISO 7811 - (7811-1 to 7811-6) standards describing the recording technique on identification cards. It describes: embossing, and especially the position of embossing characters on ID-1 cards encoding technique on magnetic stripe: description of the three tracks (ISO-1, ISO-2, ISO-3) magnetic stripe standard coercivity (Hi-co and Lo-co).
Heads or Tails - the imprint of a person, such as a monarch is impressed - this side is called the "Head" side (since the embossing is of the head of a person). The other side may have any imprint, or none, and is called the "Tail" side. Generally, one person throws the coin up in the air, and the second person must predict which side of the coin will lay face up after it rests back on the ground. A correct prediction results in a win. Another variation has the person catch the coin in one hand and slap it on the back of their other hand. Traditionally, the second person calls out "heads" or "tails" while the coin is in the air. The Australian game of Two-up is closely related, and involves traditionally.
Françoise Matraire - the stamps were to on sale, the authorities turned to a local resource in the form of Matraire, whose prior experience was in labels for patent medicines and the general printing needs of Turin. Matraire did not have facilities for recess printing, so his first stamps were produced by lithography, later (1855) switching to letterpress. The authorities being concerned about forgery, he proposed the embossing that was used in the stamps of 1853 and thereafter. The last stamp produced by Matraire was the 15c blue issued in February 1863. Thereafter he mostly disappears from history, although he was known to be alive in 1884. Reference Roy A. Dehn, Italian Stamps: a Handbook for Collectors (Heinemann, 1973).
British embossed postage stamps - printing The use of silk threaded paper (on two of the values) The method of printing (one stamp at a time) The use of tinted gum (on the six pence value) --- Embossing --- The dies used for this type of printing have the embossed, (raised), portions of the stamp design cut away, (recessed), into the metal. The colourless detail as appears on the hair and diadem are achieved by variations in the depth of the engraving. --- The Dies --- The master die was engraved by William Wyon using as his basis the City medal of 1837 which he had also engraved. (This was te same model used for the head engraved on the Penny Black). The original master die did not show the pendant curl at the back of.
Sultanate of Sulu - to lay a cornerstone for the construction of Real Fuerza de San Jose in Bagumbayan (present-day Fort Pilar). - After finishing his contract and on returning to Spain, he brought with him the impounded “Coat-of-Arms” of The Royal Sultanate of Sulu. 1636 - Datu Tagal, a brother of Kudarat, gathered a large fleet of Moro pirates from Mindanaw, Sulu, and North Borneo and looted the coastal islands of the Visayas. 1637 - Manila governor-general Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera personally led an expedition against Kudarat and Tagal and triumphed over his forces at Lamitan and Lian. January 4,1638 - deCorcuera again led a war expedition of eighty ships and 2,000 Spaniards to Jolo but was foiled by Sultan Wasit; however, due to an epidemic within his Acotta@ he and his datus were.
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