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unperforated

British  
/ ʌnˈpɜːfəˌreɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a stamp) not provided with perforations

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value."

From Time Magazine Archive

Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Victoria twopenny of 1867 is worth $1.50 perforated, while $25 is asked for the unperforated.

From Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 by Various

A "yellowish brown," meaning the brown with a yellowish cast, has been chronicled unperforated.

From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by John Kerr Tiffany

The number of plates used in printing this value unperforated, has not been possible to determine.

From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by John Kerr Tiffany

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