International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog

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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 Manufacturers Worldwide

Meter Stamp Collecting Societies

Bibliography

[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.)


Abu Dhabi Afghanistan Aland Albania Algeria American Samoa
Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua Argentina
Armenia Aruba Ascension Island Australia Austria Azerbaijan
Azores Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus
Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei
Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada
Canal Zone Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile
China, Peoples Republic (Mainland) China, Republic Of (Taiwan) Christmas Island Cocos Island Colombia Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Peoples Republic Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba
Curacao Cyprus Czechoslovakia Czech Republic Danzig Denmark
Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Dubai East African Community Ecuador
Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Equatorial Africa French Guiana
French Indochina French Polynesia French West Africa Gabon The Gambia Georgia
Germany Ghana Gibralter Great Britain Greece Greenland
Grenada Guadaloupe Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea Bissau
Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland
India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle Of Man
Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jersey
Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. (North) Korea, Republic (South)
Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho
Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao
Macedonia Madagascar Madeira Islands Malawi Malaysia Maldives
Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius
Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia
Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru
Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia Newfoundland New Zealand
Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Norway
Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Palestinian Authority Panama
Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal
Portuguese India Qatar Reunion Rhodesia & Nyasaland Romania Ruanda-Urundi
Russia Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts And Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Saint Vincent San Marino Sao Tome E Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia
Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands
Somalia South Africa South Georgia Spain Sri Lanka Sudan
Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikstan
Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Island Tonga Trinidad & Tobago
Tristan Da Cunha Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Tuvalu
Uganda Ukraine Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics United Arab Emirates United Nations United States Of America
Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Viet Nam
Wallis & Futuna Western Sahara Western Samoa Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia
Zanzibar Zimbabwe