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Post by teenkee on Jun 10, 2021 16:14:57 GMT
  Sorry you haven't heard from me in a while. Tried to get through everything before spring got here but didn't make it. I have to the best of my ability separated all my stamps to their proper categories and by decade. Of the tens of thousands I have less than three dozen unidentified. We will get to them later. I have uploaded 2 images. I have a lot of these and don't know what they are. Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully you can tell me what they are and if a database exists. Thank you. Also I got all my supplies together to start cataloging in proper order. Hope I uploaded these right. Thanks for your help. |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 10, 2021 16:32:25 GMT
The first is a commercial company “meter mark” . They buy a licence from PO and it franks, and records payment for the company mail. As it is a saving in time and cancelling by the PO they get mail out at a reduced rate below the regular letter rate . Pitney Bowes produces such franking meter mark machines.
The second indica is cut from a postal stationery envelope.
Commercial postcards, envelopes issued by the PO with an embossed printed stamp ready to address and mail out. Where they were collected as cut-outs in the past the fashion now is usually to look for the complete entire envelope or card.
your pictures are fine but in future try to crop them closer to the image to cut out a lot of dead white space.
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Post by teenkee on Jun 10, 2021 18:25:42 GMT
OK. My daughter says I'm IT challenged. Thank you.
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darkormex
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Swinging through Switzerland and getting tied up in Thailand
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What I collect: The World...just printing and mounting as I go...call me crazy!
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Post by darkormex on Jun 10, 2021 23:55:52 GMT
teenkee, I am not sure how advanced you are or what resources you have access to but for US stamps, if you don't already have a Scott Catalogue, I recommend either purchasing a used copy which you may find on eBay or getting one from your local library if they have one in their collection. The US volume will help you identify those cutouts in a section of the catalog called Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers. As vikingeck indicates, it had been normal in the past to collect these as cutouts from envelopes but the catalog identifies and prices them as both cut-outs and entire envelopes. The Scott Catalogue, however, does not contain meter marks which are not collected as extensively as postage stamps are.
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Post by teenkee on Jun 11, 2021 17:23:29 GMT
Thanks again to all.
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