Flag Cancel - a cancel (generally a machine cancel) that features a flag as part of its design. Flag cancels were common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of them produced by American Postal Machine Co. machines.
Flag Cancel - Any postage cancellation design that has a flag shape.
Flappers - Typically appearing on British stamps, refers to a wider than normal, side stamp border.
flag cancel
A cancellation used during the early 20th century incorporating a flag design. The stripes of the flag are the killer bars. Also, any more recent cancel with a similar design. [Back to top]
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THAT FLAG DOESN'T LOOK QUITE RIGHT
The 50 state flags issue of 1976 was quite popular. But the 13¢ Iowa state flag (on the right) is incorrect. The white stripe in the center should be 50% of the width, not 33-1/3%.
The waving-flag machine cancel dated June 30, 1912, at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the 1¢ blue William McKinley postal card, Scott UX22, shown in Figure 4 might interest a cancel collector.
beautiful), Formosa, formerly part of Chinese Empire; Currency: 100 sen = 1 yen, 100 cents = 1 new Taiwan dollar 1886: first stamps issued as part of China, 1887: local stamp issued, 1894: ceded to Japan after Sino-Japanese War,1895: "Black Flag ...
Picture B shows a "Flag Cancel", so if you said B-3, you were right again! This was easy, even though you might never have heard of 'flag cancels' before. The cancellation mark on the stamp shows a Royal Flag of some kind.
In the example above, which is a closeup of a strip of 1996 "flag over porch" self-adhesive stamps, we can see a plate number comprising five digits, one for each color layer.
This one is called the "Historic Flag Issue", and depicts 10 different US flags from the period 1775 to 1800.
with the flag of Norway on one side and the flag of the United States on the other. It should noted that neither flag was around in 1000 A.D. This is a must for United States collectors and is not a very expensive set to collect.
'Vancouver overprint' - rush printing of the 48c Flag over Canada Post building inscribed in red "Vancouver/2010", issued July 11, 2003, just 9 days after the 21st Winter Olympic Games of 2010 were awarded to the Vancouver-Whistler, BC region.
The 20¢ Flag over Supreme Court stamps, for instance, received catalog numbers for both wide and narrow block tagging.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce sponsored the 39-cents Canada Day issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Canadian flag. It was issued in a souvenir sheet of 16 on 29 June 1990 and featured a flag with fireworks.
In his catalog Flag Cachet And Compendium Paul Abajian writes "The novice will often confuse the designs found on pre 1925 envelopes with cachets. Many of these patriotic designs reflecting national pride or promotional advertising designs are...
The first Indian official stamp had an Indian flag design, it was meant for international mail.
Definitive issue - a stamp issued in an indefinite quantity and for an indefinite period, usually several years or more. The United States presidential issue of 1938 and the 1995 32-cent Flag over Porch stamps are examples.
The United Nations produces "Souvenir Folders" with complete year sets for issues from each issuing city as well as Special Souvenir Folders for special events such as the "UN Flag of Nations Series" and "Human Rights." ...
alterations (for instance, the recent editing out of cigarettes from the pictures used for US stamps), and the stories of how particular images came to be used (one US stamp from the 1920s shows a Viking ship apparently flying an American flag, ...
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