There is also a photographic process for making typographical dies. This is said to be used in making the stamps of France and her colonies.
Stereotypes or electrotypes of single stamps are called clichés. In making up a plate it sometimes happens that a cliché is placed upside down. The result, after printing, is a stamp in that position. This is called a tête bêche. We illustrate here such a stamp and another which is semi tête bêche, i.e., turned half around instead of being entirely inverted. Like all oddities these are prized by stamp collectors.
The triangular stamps of the Cape of Good Hope and New Foundland are so arranged in the plate that half of them are tête bêche to the other half. The same is true of the stamps of Grenada of the issue of 1883.
