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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

  • Finland type PO3 added (21 May 2013)
  • Nicaragua added (17 May 2013)
  • Niger added (17 May 2013)
  • Nigeria added (17 May 2013)
  • Niue added (17 May 2013)
  • Norfolk Island added (17 May 2013)
  • USA variety PO10a added (13 May 2013)
  • USA type CA5 divided into sub-types A and B (7 May 2013)
  • Argentina type PO-A6 added (6 May 2013)
  • USA sub-type R5B added (18 April 2013)
  • Australia varieties B1c and G3b added (15 April 2013)
  • Canada sub-type PO4D added (4 April 2013)
  • Costa Rica type D3 added (4 April 2013)
  • Egypt type D10.1 added (4 April 2013)
  • Great Britain type HB5.6 added (4 April 2013)
  • Namibia type A21 added (4 April 2013)
  • Great Britain variety PV4a added (1 April 2013)
  • Czechoslovakia type PO0.1 re-cataloged as type PO0.2. (1 April 2013)
  • Czechoslovakia type A7 re-cataloged as type PO0.1. (1 April 2013)
  • Argentina types PO-F1 and PO-F3 each divided into sub-types A and B (30 March 2013)
  • France sub-types DB9G, DB11C, DB11D added (21 March 2013)
  • Austria Group PV and type PV1 added (19 March 2013)
  • Austria Group PO divided into PO-A and PO-B. Types PO-B1, PO-B2 added (14 March 2013)
  • New Caledonia added (12 March 2013)
  • Newfoundland added (12 March 2013)
  • Namibia added (10 March 2013)
  • Norfolk Island added (10 March 2013)
  • Nepal added (10 March 2013)
  • Belgium Group K reorganized (8 March 2013)
  • Montserrat added (2 March 2013)
  • Morocco added (2 March 2013)
  • Mozambique added (2 March 2013)
  • Myanmar added (2 March 2013)




Table of Contents [edit]



  • Identifier (find the country your stamp is from)





* The Catalog: [edit]

(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 Federation 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 Timor Leste
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