Postage stamp booklet

Luxembourg was the first country to issue booklets, in 1895, followed by Sweden in 1898, the United States in 1900 and Great Britain in 1904.

Originally booklets were produced manually, by separating sheets into smaller panes and binding those.

[2] Such sheets, in fact, were created to produce the earliest United States booklets, printed from special plates that yielded sheets of 180 or 360 stamps for cutting into panes of six stamps each.

(Normal sheets containing 400 stamps were deemed unusable for booklets because they could not be cut into six-stamp panes without leaving waste.)

Some countries, such as Sweden, routinely issue a single stamp design in coils, booklets, and sheets.