Telegraph stamps are stamps specially printed for the payment of telegraph fees.
Telegraph stamps are service fee stamps that prepay or show payment or exemption from payment for delivery of a telegraphic message.
Telegraph Stamp: Label used for the prepayment of telegraph fees. Telegraph stamps resemble postage stamps.
Tete-Beche: French for 'head to tail.' Two or more unsevered stamps, one of which is inverted in relation to the other.
Telegraph Stamp - Label used for paying telegraph fees.
Territorial mail - Mail postmarked in areas that, at the time, were not admitted as states.
Telegraph stamp - a service-fee stamp that confirmed payment or exemption from payment for delivery of a telegraphic message. The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company issued what were probably the first telegraph stamps in 1853.
Telegraph stamps, these cinderella stamps are used to mark a service fee in sending telegrams.
Telegraph tax stamps are issued in countries where telegraph lines exist.
Indian telegraph stamps: inscribed "Electric Telegraph and "Govt. of India Telegraph Department," issued in 1860.
Indian Territory: U.S., never formally recognized as a territory.
Indian U.N. Forces in Congo: 1962, Jan.
Telegraph stamp - Adhesive stamp used for prepayment of telegraph charges.
On many issues, such cancellations indicate use of postage stamps as fiscals (revenues) or telegraph stamps rather than as postage. Cut cancellations were used experimentally on early United States postage stamps to prevent reuse.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Telegraph, Local, Catalog
  
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