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In philately, a cut square is an imprinted stamp cut from an item of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper in a square or rectangular shape.〔Youngblood, Wayne L. ''All about Stamps'', Krause Publications, Iola WI, 2000, p.51. ISBN 0-87341-963-4.〕 An alternative use of the term is simply any stamp, from sheets or postal stationery, cut in a square or rectangular shape and not cut to shape.〔Patrick, Douglas & Mary. ''The Hodder Stamp Dictionary'', Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1973, p.61. ISBN 0-340-17183-9.〕〔Mackay, James. ''Philatelic Terms Illustrated'', 4th edition, Stanley Gibbons, London, 2003, p.40. ISBN 0-85259-557-3.〕 It is distinguished from the entire (the complete postal stationery item) or the more common practice of earlier eras of cutting to shape by removing all of the paper apart from the imprinted stamp. A variant of the cut square is the full corner which is a cutting of the corner to include the intact flap and back of the envelope as well as the front.〔''Thorp-Bartels Catalogue of U.S. Stamped Envelopes'', Century Edition, 1954〕 Just as used postage stamps were cut out, soaked and placed in an album, collectors also cut out postal stationery indicia and mounted them conveniently in albums. Now, the practice is frowned upon by most collectors who collect the entire,〔Van Gelder, Peter J.; ''The Collectors' Guide to Postal Stationery''; Shrewsbury, England, 1997〕 thus saving the envelope's postal history, the knife of the envelope and the postmark. To illustrate how far things have shifted in emphasis from the collection of cut squares, the most recent UPSS publication on US 20th and 21st century stamped envelopes does not even mention cut squares,〔Undersander, Dan, Ed.; ''Catalog of the 20th and 21st Century Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States'', Third Edition, UPSS, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9800112-8-9.〕 whereas its predecessor edition, just seven years earlier, devoted a section to their pricing.〔Summers, Jerry, Ed.; ''Catalog of the 20th Century Stamped Envelopes, Wrappers, Cut Squares and Full Corners of the United States'', Second Edition, UPSS, 2004.〕 The term ''cut square'' is differentiated from the term used on piece which denotes an adhesive stamp cut out in similar fashion from the original cover so as to preserve the entire postmark.〔Bennett, Russell and Watson, James; ''Philatelic Terms Illustrated'', Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978).〕 ==Gallery== File:Russia 1848 30k cut square.jpg|Russia 1848, 30k unused cut square File:Warsaw 1860 cut square.jpg|Poland 1860, 3k unused cut square File:Uruguay1866 5c CutSquare.jpg|Uruguay 1866, 5c unused cut square File:Salvador 1887 10c CS yp.jpg|El Salvador 1887, 10c unused cut square File:ColumbianEnv1.jpg|USA 1892, 1c unused cut square 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cut square (philately)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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