Facsimile Mail Service - a service provided briefly by the USPS beginning in 1971 that enabled customers to send fax messages which were then delivered by the post office in specially designed envelopes.
Facsimile: A reproduction of a genuine stamp or cover. Such items are usually made with no intent to deceive collectors or postal officials. Catalogue illustrations may also be considered facsimiles.
Facsimile: Duplicates of stamps and covers.
Fake: Stamps that have been altered or repaired to appeal to collectors to appeal to a collector.
Fancy cancel: An unusual attractive postmark.
Facsimile - An acknowledged reproduction of a genuine stamp or cover.
Fake - A stamp, cover or cancel that has been altered or concocted to appeal to a collector.
Fancy Cancel - Any pictorial or unusual obliterating postmark.
Facsimile - a likeness or imitation of a genuine stamp, marked in some way to denote its status so that it doesn't deceive a collector or defraud a postal administration. Catalog illustrations may be considered facsimiles.
Facsimile. A term used to designate reproductions of a stamp design.
Filler. An imperfect stamp mounted temporarily.
Fiscal. A revenue stamp, or postage stamp used as a revenue.
Many of these facsimiles included some type of inscription or marking to indicate they were not true stamps, such as the words "facsimile" or "falsch" (German for "false").
Facsimile: a reproduction of a genuine postage stamp, intended for souvenir value and not meant to defraud.
Facsimile Mail Service: USPS service that permitted customers to send fax messages and have them delivered by the post office, 1971.
Facsimile - Printed copy of a (usually rare) postage stamp, with no intent to deceive.
Fake - Postage stamp or other postal item fraudulently altered to appear to be a different item of greater value, usually to deceive collectors.
Call them reference copies or reprints or facsimiles, they're still fakes. The collector likes to have examples of everything in his field, so if he can't have a copy of a rarity, he might settle for a knock-off.
The Invention of Lithography, Aloys Senefelder, (Eng. trans. 1911)(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu and layered PDF format)
Theo De Smedt's website, author of "What's lithography" ...
Added explanation of parodies, Exhibit pages, new Facsimile
N is for Numerals
Added more Computer Vended Postage ...
12 Written notice of any regular or special meeting shall be given at least five days previous thereto by express or first class mail, postage prepaid, personal delivery, courier service, telex, e-mail or facsimile number supplied by the Trustee to ...
Mail must relate to the mailer's official business, activities, and duties. The mailpiece bears a written signature, printed facsimile signature, or other required marking instead of a postage stamp. Compare with penalty mail.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Official, Cover, Cancel
  
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