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Numeral 70 identifying Boyle, diamond bars for Ireland Hand stamp of the type used to cancel postage stamps 1929 machine cancellation used to cancel 1d stamp on first flight cover from Nassau to Miami A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: oblitération) is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in ...
In philately, errors, freaks, and oddities (EFO) collectively refer to the wide variety of mistakes that may occur during the production of postage stamps. [1] Postal authorities generally take some care to ensure that mistakes do not get out of the printing plant; to be valid, the EFO stamps must have been sold to a customer.
The National Philatelic Collection is a collection of nearly six million postage stamps, revenue stamps, and related items, owned by the United States Government and managed by the Smithsonian Institution. It is housed within the National Postal Museum and a portion of the collection is on display in the museum's National Stamp Salon. The National Philatelic Collection is among the world's ...
History of philatelic fakes and forgeries The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain in 1840, and by the early 1860s the first postage stamp forgery [3] —in the sense of a stamp created to fool philatelists into thinking that it is a genuine one—appeared on the market.
The British Guiana 1c magenta is regarded by many philatelists as the world's most famous rare stamp. [3][4] It was issued in limited numbers in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1856, and only one specimen is now known to exist. It is the only major postage stamp ever issued in the United Kingdom or British Commonwealth that is not represented in Britain's Royal Philatelic Collection. [5] An ...
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps. [1] In the earliest days, ship captains ...