Quadrille Paper

Can someone explain what is quadrille paper? And if you have any images of what it looks like, that would be very helpful also.

Thanks

Quadrille paper had faint, normally light gray, lines to help un maintaining alignment when mounting stamps.

To quote from the makers of Quadrille pages (HE Harris & Co.):

"Faint guidelines divide the pages into columns that match standard stamp sizes. Border matches Harris album pages. 64 Sheets printed on one side (64 printed pages)"

It's really just a guide to help you mount stamps straight rather than trusting your eye to do it. Personally, I don't like them; I'd much rather create my own. Very difficult to scan because of how light the grid lines are.

I agree with wt1. I think the lines detract from the presentation of the stamps. I have created my own custom album pages for the last 10 years, much preferred.

Thanks for the info, what I was looking for is stamps that were made using quadrille paper. Would this same pattern be visible on the stamps themselves?

Echizento,
I totally misunderstood your post. As a stamp paper is is a form of laid paper. Vertical laid paper is processed on longintudinal support wires, horizontal is processed on tranverse support wires and quadrille is produced on a grid. the paper is thinner where the wires touch when you look at the paper it has ethir vertical, horizontal or grid lines.

Thank you that answers my question.

Here's an example of a stamp on quadrille paper from the Russian Post Offices in Crete:



with a scan of the back and a drawing of the quadrille pattern to guide the eye:

Quadrille paper is basically graph paper,
with evidence of "cross hatching" squares or rectangles
in the watermark or as a design description.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_paper

Possibly linked to an ancient dance "The Quadrille"
which was a square dance.

Example of French "peace and commerce" quadrille
these are easy to find, and show up magnificently
when soaked in water



The reference to the type of background colour
on this Danish issue, referred to sometimes
as the Caravel Quadrille indicating the fine
cross hatching of the engraving