[edit] Welcome!
P
ostage meters first appeared experimentally at the end of the 19th century and came into general use worldwide starting in the 1920s. By the 1960s more mail was being franked by postage meter than with traditional adhesive stamps. The trend continues today as mechanical postage meters are displaced by newer and far more versatile digital franking machines.
This is a catalog of all the different types of postage meter stamps ever used to frank mail in the world. It organizes and categorizes the stamps by their appearance (design format) rather than the meter model that printed them. It is thus a STAMP catalog for use primarily by stamp collectors and is not a meter (machine) catalog. It is an expansion of The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog, written and published by Joel Hawkins and Richard Stambaugh in 2005, and its 2008 Supplement.
Recent changes
- Malawi added (4 February 2012)
- Italy type PO19 added (3 February 2012)
- India type PO-B10: varieties "A", "B", and "C" added / sub-variety "b" removed (26 January 2012)
- USA type PC-F14 removed due to not meeting the definition of a meter stamp (25 January 2012)
- USA type R2: sub-variety "c" added (20 January 2012)
- Denmark type DB11 / Gibraltar type PO2 / Hungary type BB7 / and Madagascar type D5.1 added (18 January 2012)
- USA type PC-F14 added (16 January 2012)
- Madagascar and Madeira Islands added (14 January 2012)
- Germany type RB25: sub-variety "a" added (9 January 2012)
- Germany type RB26: variety "B" added (9 January 2012)
- Australia type A1: sub-variety "d" added (8 January 2012)
- India type PO-B10: sub-varieties "a" and "b" added (4 January 2012)
- Belgium type A1: 25c and 1F25 postage values added (1 January 2012)
- Macedonia added (29 December 2011)
- USA type PC-G3: sub-variety "b" added (27 December 2011)
- Macao added (25 December 2011)
- USA type OO-I4 added (22 December 2011)
- Argentina type CB4: new value figure added (22 December 2011)
- USA type PC-F9.1: variety "B" added (17 December 2011)
[edit] Table of Contents
[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 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, Part 1 |
Germany, Part 2 |
Germany, Part 3 |
Ghana |
Gibraltar |
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, Part 1 |
United States of America, Part 2 |
United States of America, Part 3 |
Uruguay |
Uzbekistan |
| Vanuatu |
Vatican City |
Venezuela |
Viet Nam |
Wallis & Futuna |
Western Sahara |
| Western Samoa |
Yemen |
Yugoslavia |
Zambia |
Zanzibar |
| Zimbabwe |
