* - Mint with gum
o - Used
H - Hinged with no or small hinge remnant
F - Fine centered
R. - Right
XF - Extremely Fine centering
(ENV) - Estimated net (or market) value
HR - Hinge Remnant(s)
CR - Crease
PR - Pair
PC - Printed Cancel
Blk - Block
SE - Straight Edge
HBC - Herring Bone Cancel (Revenues)
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CC - Cut Cancel (Revenues)
LH - Lightly Hinged (no hinge remnant, usually hinged only once previously).
VF - Very Fine centering
VLH - Very Lightly Hinged (only a trace of a hinge mark)
L. - Left
DG - Disturbed gum (generally hinged stamps that have had the hinge remnants removed)
T. - Top
B. - Bottom
SON - Socked on the Nose cancel
LP - Line Pair
OG - Original gum (generally less than half the original gum is present)
HC - Hand Cancel
CDS - Circular Date Stamp cancel
Unused - No gum or regummed
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