Training Stamps
Definitive stamps of Great Britain are regularly precancelled with one or two, usually vertical, thick black lines for use in training Post Office employees.
Timbre Fictifs: (Fr.) dummy training stamps; French colony revenue inscription.
Timbre Fiscal: (Fr.) revenue stamp.
Timbre Fiscal Republique Syrienne: (Fr.) overprint for postal tax, Syria.
A test stamp, dummy stamp, or training stamp, is a label resembling a postage stamp that is used by postal authorities for testing equipment and/or training postal workers.
Training stamp - postage stamp identical in most respects with current postage stamps but grossly altered to render it invalid for postage (usually by crude black overprinted bars) and used to train new counter clerks.
 See also: Used, Stamp, Label, Postage Due, Local
  
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