International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog
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[edit] Welcome
ostage meters and meter stamps first appeared experimentally at the end of the 19th century and came into general use worldwide starting in the 1920s. This catalog is an attempt to organize and categorize all the postage meter stamp designs and their major varieties that have ever been used in the world. The organization is by country and roughly in chronological order by stamp design within each country. It is based on The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog, written and published by Joel Hawkins and Richard Stambaugh in 2005, and its 2008 Supplement.
A few words of explanation: this is a POSTAGE STAMP catalog, NOT a postage meter catalog. The focus is on the stamps rather than the machines that print them. Those who want more information about the machines themselves can check the references listed in the bibliography and the specialized catalogs mentioned in the introductory comments for those countries that have such catalogs.
[edit] Table of Contents
Introduction - The basics of meter stamp collecting
Glossary, Abbreviations and Symbols - Understanding the stamp descriptions
Identifier - Find the country your stamp came from
Meter Stamp Collecting Societies
[edit] The Catalog
(Note: The Catalog remains under construction. At this time only the countries in blue have content. Those in red are being loaded alphabetically as time permits.)
