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What Is The Right Way Of Describing This?

 
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rlsny
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Looks like the paper must have been piled up and some ink stuck to the back of the stamp. What is the right way of describing this? Is this consistent with flat plate printing?
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Yes this is common on flat plate stamps; it is called a 'set-off'.

Set-off - the impression left when ink from a freshly printed sheet of stamps is transferred to the back of the sheet placed on top of it
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rlsny
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Knew there was a word for it. Thanks.
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For about 80 years it was called offset, in the last 10 years or so people are calling it setoff instead.
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I believe that is to distinguish it from offset printing, which makes sense to me.

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I suppose, although it didn't seem to confuse all those old timers, or those of us who learned it as youngsters either.
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How does the setoff affect the catalogue value, all other things being equal?
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