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Postmarks, cancels offer challenge and fun
By Janet Klug
Collectors of mint postage stamps may sometimes forget that postage stamps were made to be used.
Postmark:
A mark struck opon envelopes, generally to indicate the name of the post office,date of mailing etc.
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Postmark Any mark, hand struck, machine-applied or in manuscript form, used on postal items in order items in order to cancel the stamps and/or record the date and origin of their transit through the mail services. (see Cancellation).
POSTMARK: Cancellation mark on mail shoiwng date and place of mailing.
PRECANCEL: Stamp with the postmark applied before the actual mailing of the article it pre-pays.
Postmark
A mark, applied by hand or machine, to cancel the stamp and thus prevent re-use. Also a general term for any postal markings applied to mail.
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Postmark. An official postal marking usually giving the date and origin or a piece of mail and is often part of the cancellation obliterating a stamp to prevent reuse.
Postmark: Any official postal marking. The term is usually used specifically in reference to cancellations bearing the name of a post office of origin and a mailing date.
Postmark: Official postal marking.
Pre-cancel: stamps which are specially cancelled before use.
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Prestige booklet: A stamp booklet with oversized panes with descriptive information.
Postmark - Any official postal marking, typically referring to cancellations.
Precancel - Stamp with a special overprint cancellation allowing it to bypass normal canceling.
*Postmark - the impression made by the post office or authorized mailer on a cover, typically indicating the date, time and place of mailing. Postmarks may be made by machine or handstamp.
"Postmarks" are the city, date, and time stamps (usually in a circular border, therefore a Circular Date Stamp), applied to mail to indicate the place and time when it entered the mail stream.
Boxed Postmark
A postmark printed with a frame surrounding the text. Boxed postmarks may be single-, double-, or triple-lined, have one or more lines of text, and be extremely ornate or very plain.
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POSTMARKS
Stamps often are marked, or "cancelled", by the post office to show that the stamp has been used, and to prevent people from using them again. A long time ago, the mark might have been made by running a pen over the stamp.
Postmarks & FDCs
First Day Covers and Special Events/Cancels
U.S. USED
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Postmark - A mark indicating when and from where a letter was sent. It may or may not also serve as a cancel.
Postmarking device - a tool for marking the origin, date, and transit of mail. Another use was to deface stamps, making them impossible to reuse. Such devices first appeared in Italy about 1454, but two centuries elapsed before they were widely used.
Postmark
Marking on a postal item recording the date and/or origin of its transit through the mail system.
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Postmark collecting.
Margin:
1) the selvage surrounding the stamps in a sheet, often carrying inscriptions of various kinds; or 2) the unprinted area between stamps in a sheet or what is left after stamps are separated.
Backstamp -- A postmark applied to mail by the receiving post office or by a post office handling the piece while it is in transit. Backstamps are usually on the back of a cover, but they can be on the front.
Marcophily: Postmark collecting.
Margin: The unprinted border area around the stamp design.
Advertisements on Postmarks
Advertising by slogan postmarks were not adopted until the late 19th Century. Commercial advertising was banned in Great Britain until 1989. Since then a wide range of goods and services have been advertised.
5: pre-adhesive postmark; Paris (France), Pennsylvania (USA), Philadelphia, (Penn.) Poland, Prague (Bohemia), 6: (With no country name, with value and Queen's cameo) Great Britain.
Similar term to Postmark.
Cancelled to order - A postage stamp bearing a cancel (invariably neat), but never postally used. Provided as a service by some postal administrations.
Once you have the stamp on the postcard, you send it to the Post Office where you want them to postmark it. If it is a first day of issue, then follow the instructions that you would usually follow for FDIs. However, often it will not be an FDI.
It includes the study of postmarks, post offices, and the process by which letters are moved from sender to recipient, including routes and choice of conveyance.
The first price is the cost of the stamp in an Unused condition, in other words, one without a postmark. The next price is for a Used stamp. A used stamp is one that has been through the mail and is usually postmarked.
A Frenchman, Georges Herpin, coined the word Philately, meaning the study of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, postmarks, postcards and other material relating to postal delivery.
First-day covers-stamped envelopes postmarked with the date of issue of the stamp.
Definitive
A word used to distinguish a normal, everyday issue of stamps.
My best thinking for a new beginner is to trim stamps still on paper (from envelopes or flyer covers etc.) with scissors - and, while you're at it, why not keep the postmark: these are known as 'cut squares'.
Gage & Company of Toronto, found on a 3-cent Small Queen on a cover postmarked October 2, 1887. Official perfins included those used by government departments and agencies.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Catalog
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