souvenir sheet

English

Noun

souvenir sheet (plural souvenir sheets)

(philately) A small block or sheet of postage stamps, including a single value or a series of stamps, often without gum or perforations, having a wide margin with an inscription or design identifying an event being commemorated, printed as a souvenir or for collecting purposes.
Synonyms: miniature sheet, minisheet

Translations

small block or sheet of postage stamps

German: Gedenkblock
Hungarian: blokk (hu), bélyegblokk

Further reading

souvenir sheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“souvenir sheet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“Souvenir sheets and miniature sheets can be hard to define”, in Linn's Stamp News‎, 2014 August 11, retrieved 2020-08-05

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