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Machin Booklet Panes [under 'construction' - not quite ready for general consumption] (page updated: Oct 28/03)
Identifying the source of a Machin single stamp is perhaps the most important part of understanding and studying Machins. This page includes a summarized list of all of the booklet panes that have a Machin stamp. Links to full-pane illustrations are included. Identifying a single, water-activated, stamp from a booklet How do you know that a stamp came from a booklet pane? A single stamp, extracted from a booklet, will fall into one of the following categories:
2. imperforate on 1 or 2 adjacent sides (not many Machin booklet panes appeared this way; these are easily identifiable) 3. cut on 1 or 2 sides (the source of the vast majority of Machin singles) 
The 'trick' to identifying the third type is to look closely at the perforated edges of the stamp.
During the printing process, the booklet panes are cut from the larger printing sheet of stamps.
When the consumer removes a single stamp from the booklet pane, 1, 2 or 3 sides will be torn
from the rest of the booklet. Upon close examination (and practise), it is possible to identify a torn edge from
a cut edge.[A stamp that is cut on 2 opposite sides is from a coil, not a booklet.] Abbreviations:
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