Spanish-Philippine Gutters

A Gutter is defined as ‘the selvage, either unprinted or with plate numbers, advertising or accounting or control numbers, between the panes of a sheet of stamps

During the reign of King Alfonso XIII, a number of sheets were issued comprising of two or three panes of stamps, each pane separated by gutters. Between 1890 and 1898, a total of 22 separate issues were printed in sheets containing gutters.

List of Known Spanish-Philippine Gutters

Postage Stamps

Scott #	Stamp Denomination	Year Issued	Comments
144	2c claret	1894	There were two printings of this issue (1890 and 1894). The 1894 printing comprised of two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
145	2c violet	1892	Three panes of 50 each with gutters between panes. The two outside panes are cliché type I, and the center pane cliché type II; thus there are two possible gutter types (type I and II, type II and I).
147	2c ultramarine	1896	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
149	2 4/8c dull blue	1890	Two panes of 100 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
150	2 4/8c olive gray	1892	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
165	10c claret	1894	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
166	10c yellow brown	1896	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
192	1m orange brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
193	2m orange brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
194	3m orange brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
195	4m orange brown	1898	Believed to have gutter pairs, but not confirmed.
196	5m orange brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
197	1c black violet	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
198	2c dark blue green	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
199	3c dark brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
203	8c gray brown	1898	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.

Newspaper Stamps

Scott #	Stamp Denomination	Year Issued	Comments
P7	1/8 de centavo orange brown	1894	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
P8	1/8 de centavo dull blue	1896	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
P11	1m olive gray	1894	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
P12	1m ultramarine	1896	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
P15	2m olive gray	1894	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
P19	5m olive gray	1894	Two panes of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.

Extracted from an article by Don Peterson and Nigel Gooding – “Gutter Pairs of the 1890 – 1898 Issues”
Philippine Philatelic Journal, Volume XXIX, No. 1, First Quarter 2007

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