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 21 separate issues were printed in sheets containing gutters.

List of Known Spanish-Philippine Gutters

Postage Stamps

Scott #

Denomination

Year Issued

Description

144

2c Claret

1894

There were three printings of this issue
(one in 1890 and two in 1894).
The 1894 printing was issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes of 50 stamps,
with gutter between panes.
Left pane Cliché Type II and right pane Cliché Type I

145

2c Violet
2c Pale Violet

1892

Issued in sheets of 150 stamps, comprising three panes
of 50 stamps, each with gutter between panes.
The two outer panes are Cliché Type I,
and the centre pane Cliché Type II.
Thus there are two possible gutter types:
Cliché Types I and II and Cliché Types II and I

147

2c Ultramarine

1896

Issued in sheets of 200 stamps, comprising three panes
of 60-80-60 stamps, each with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type III

149

2-4/8c Dull Blue

1890

Issued in sheets of 200 stamps, comprising two panes
of 100 each, with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I

150

2 4/8c Olive-Grey

1892

Issued in sheets of 150 stamps, comprising three panes
of 50-50-50, each with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I

165

10c Claret

1894

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I

166

10c Yellow-Brown

1896

Issued in sheets of 200 stamps, comprising three panes
of 60-80-60 with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type III

192

1m Orange-Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

193

2m Orange-Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

194

3m Orange-Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

196

5m Orange-Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

197

1c Black-Violet

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

198

2c Dark Blue-Green

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

199

3c Dark Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes

203

8c Grey-Brown

1898

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes


Newspaper Stamps

Scott #

Denomination

Year Issued

Description

P7

1/8c Orange-Brown

1894

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I

P8

1/8c Dull Blue

1896

Issued in sheets of 200 stamps, comprising three panes
of 60-80-60 stamps, each with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type IV

P11

1m Olive-Grey

1894

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I

P12

1m Ultramarine

1896

Issued in sheet of 200 stamps, comprising three panes
of 60-80-60 each with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type III

P15

2m Olive-Grey

1894

Issued in sheets of 100 stamps, comprising two panes
of 50 stamps, with gutter between panes
All Cliché Type I


References:

1)            Gutter Pairs of the 1890-1898 Issues. Don Peterson and Nigel Gooding, Philippine Philatelic Journal, Volume XXIX, No. 1, First Quarter 2007, Pages 19-20.

2)            Michael Palmer. Personal Collection, March 2018.

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