Provisional stamp
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Provisionals:
Stamps issued prior to the regular issues or to meet a temporary shortage of regular stamps.
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Provisional: A postage stamp issued for temporary use to meet postal demands until new or regular stocks of stamps can be obtained.
Provisional: A stamp issued for temporary usage.
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Receiving mark: A postmark applied by the recipient post office.
Provisional Stamp - a stamp produced as an interim (temporary) measure to meet an immediate need. Such stamps are often made by overprinting existing stamps.
Provisional: A temporary postage stamp, issued to meet postal demands until new or regular stocks of stamps can be obtained ...
Provisional stamp - a stamp produced, often issued during an emergency to meet an immediate need, whose value or purpose has been altered after printing by means of a surcharge or overprint.
A provisional, in precancel usage, is a stamp which has been used as a precancel though it was not produced or canceled by a duly authorized precanceling device.
Issued by the provisional Badoglio government under sanction of the Allied Military Government authorities.
First used in Bari, Italy, and then placed into use in localities elsewhere as each was liberated by the allied armies.
Mobile, Alabama CSA Provisional Issue
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Royal Mail Steam Packets through Mobile, Alabama ...
3PF: German bisect provisional made 1901, at New Orleans, La. by German Cruiser Vineta to meet need for printed matter rate by ship's crew.
3-Rings Nummerstempler: (Nor.) 3-concentric rings numerical oblit cancellations.
Definitive - A postage stamp intended to remain in everyday use for a considerable time, as distinct from a provisional, commemorative or other special issue.
Logic dictates that hundreds and thousands of the very rare Postmaster's Provisionals of 1845 to 1847 were sold, and used. Yet comparatively few of these have turned up in over a century, and they have catalogue values ranging from $32.00 to $15,000.
Chops were used extensively in the territories occupied by the Japanese during World War II. Such markings were provisionally used to create occupation stamps until new stamps could be printed and distributed.
including many issues of the British Commonwealth, are inscribed ""Postage and Revenue'' and were available for either use. Such issues are usually worth less fiscally canceled than postally used. In some cases, revenues have been used provisionally ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Official, Overprint, Cover
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