Sewing machine roulettes on Vietnamese stamps
Sewing machine roulette (also known as “Perce en points” or pin roulette) is one of the oldest and widely spread methods to separate stamps. As the name suggests, roulette is created with sewing (or similar) machine. In this roulette, small holes are pricked trough the paper one at a time,and no paper is removed (which is why this is a roulette, and not a perforation). These characteristic makes it somewhat easy to differentiate pin roulette from normal perforation. Lots of countries have used it up to very recent times, but as I’ve got my Vietnamese collection open, let’s display some of them.
Published on February 9th 2010 | Read more.... | 2 Comments »
