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tête-bêche, n. (a.) Philately.|tɛtbɛʃ|
[a. Fr., lit. ‘(sleeping) head to foot’, f. tête head + bêche, reduced from béchevet, lit. ‘double bedhead’.]
(A stamp) printed upside down relative to the next stamp in the same row or column (see quot. 1913). Freq. attrib. in phr. tête-bêche pair. Also as adv.
1874Stamp-Collector's Mag. XII. 10 The Marquis de L― has kindly forwarded for notice a reversed 4 centime laureated French empire stamp; technically termed a tête-bêche. 1882E. B. Evans Catal. Collectors Postage Stamps 56 One or more stamps upside down,..forming the varieties termed têtes-bêches. Ibid., Varieties 2 and 3 are the result of stamps placed tête-bêche. 1891S. Gibbons' Monthly Jrnl. 30 Jan. 153/2 The sheets are composed of four horizontal rows of five stamps,..each row is placed tête-bêche to the one below it. 1913E. B. Evans Stamps & Stamp Collecting (ed. 4) 103 Tête-bêche. A term applied in French to stamps printed upside down in reference to one another. One such stamp may appear in a sheet, through one of the dies forming the plate being accidentally set the wrong way; this stamp will be tête-bêche as regards those surrounding it. Some of the stamps of Grenada were printed with alternate rows reversed, so that the stamps in one row were tête-bêche with reference to those in the next. Such varieties must of course be shown in pairs, as the stamps when separated exhibit no peculiarity. 1921F. A. Bellamy Oxf. & Cambr. Coll. Messenger Postage Stamps 14 Balliol, a number of impressions were made one way, then the paper strip was turned round; so a tête bêche pair can be found on each strip. 1971Daily Tel. 16 July 7/6 The 2 annas is known in a tête bêche pair (one stamp upside down in relation to the other). |